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Myth III Gets Fan-Improved Levelbuilding Tools
BladesP9 writes "A group of Myth fanatics have made good on their pledge to create a cross platform tool for the Myth III RTS game engine. FlyingFlip Studios has completed its first stage in the creation of a tool for the Mac/PC game Myth III. The tool, named Ballistic, is based on the old Vengeance code which was released to the public by the game's original publisher back in 2003. The update is native to Macintosh OS X, yet works well on Classic Mac OS, and there's also a version for Windows - many will remember the Myth III game shipped with a very basic tool that was Windows only. This same group is making updates to the Myth III game as well and plan an update to be released shortly."
Has anyone else considered how some games take a life of their own, with the fans supporting them long after the game company has come and gone? Look at Thief and Thief 2, or any game from Looking Glass -- there is a rabid fan following patching, extending, and otherwise supporting the games better than the publisher.
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The Myth series definitely deserves this support, I might add. I was never much of a fan of limited unit strategy games -- I felt that the designer deciding what units I had was too limiting -- until I played Myth. I fell in love then.
Myth III represents the absolute worst of game development. The team was forced to release the game early, then the entire team was fired. *shakes head* It is stuff like that which makes you wish marketing and executives never got involved with game development.
Despite this -- it is ironic how many games are fan supported yet the number of open source, high quality games remains dismally low. (I said low, not non existent.)
My reality check bounced.
It's a wonder there is any Myth community at all. Look at these responses. A post was made about a group doing something good for the games future and what happens. All rally for a boost in the life of there game? No. To me it looks as if a bridge burned down and the trolls brought the flame with them. No matter what you say, "this happened then", "these guys are scary", "I want my mommy" and so on. It's still petty. For ANY group to breath life into an older and loved game is a great thing. For Myth TFL, Myth SB and Myth WA. No if, ands or buts. And to see the childish banter that comes from something good sickens me. If Blades is hosting the only Myth whatever server in a community that does this is astounding. I might suggest having more than one server if this were the case. Yes I am involved in this whole thing. I am not what you would call vocal. Check my email address and you know it isn't Blades or Clem or Iron or CIK. My account was made not knowing Myth would show up here. Aus
I have seen enough fighting and division of the Myth community and would like it to stop. Yes Project Magma had planned for Myth 3 development (you can read about the current status of Project Magma Myth 3 development here. Although some Project Magma members are still very upset about what has happened in the past, they are moving on and continuing to listen to and meet the needs and the requests of those who like to play and modify the entire Myth series as they have in the past. Good luck to Flying Flip in all of their projects.