Man, I miss the Mods & Hacks section. Some people made some excellent levels. I tried my hand at one, I think I made about one screen before I packed it in.

How much archive are we talking? I sometimes find it interesting to read old threads with speculation (especially the old .lvl files thread) knowing the stuff we know now. :p



Certainly a lot of vapourware though - remember BlackVenom's Photoshop levels? Hard to believe it has been like 10 years since Jango started the custom levels megathread...


Maybe I'm too optimistic, but with Paul's (and Varrok's) work on reversing AE, logging bugs and whatnot there might be the possibility of making better levels in future (as much I can comment on from the backseat, Soon(TM) ).



The sheer amount of limitations on the original game engines made it difficult to do anything more complex than a single level edit. I remember Paramonia being virtually uneditable because it would instantly crash if you adjusted anything at all.


That said... LegnaX's edits of SoulStorm Brewery recently were really cool and had a lot of interesting uses of some of the game objects. Probably way too hard for me to complete because I am rusty as hell at AO/AE now.

I had no idea that's something that's occuring, I'm totally out of the loop. How are they getting on with it?

Never would have thought there'd be another way to get use out of the original games. Do you know if this could this potentially open it up to being played at higher resolutions etc.?

Sorry for diverging even further off the topic, but while we're on the subject of mods, is there any type of "best of" collection that has been compiled from what was submitted to the mods forum? I'd imagine there's a handful of must-play mods that really shine above the rest.

It's about 900MB, basically everything from http://www.oddworldforums.net/archive/index.php

I really want to do a proper backup of the entire forum, but that's a wee bit more complicated because technical reasons.

Pretty good I think, though you're probably better off asking them as I admittedly haven't kept up on it as much as I should (despite being a Patreon for Paul :goof:). I think they have a relatively good build of AE now with the game pretty much playable.

https://github.com/AliveTeam/alive_reversing/

No one had the foresight to archive like, any of them, so I don't think any such compilation exists. Varrok did manage to download a couple but I expect the majority are gone because file hosts are dead.


I don't have the link to LegnaX's mod but it is worth checking out if you can ask someone else who has it.

they made extra sure to upload them on some niche website that's now dead