Castle Paradox

Eggie · Joined: 12 May 2003 Posts: 904

Do we have a Walkthrough/ FAQ Section of CP. I have seen links to stuff like it, and heard about it, but I never actually have seen it.

I am concerned because I want to make a Walkthru for my games.

Fenrir-Lunaris · **WUT** Joined: 03 Feb 2003 Posts: 1747

This was something that was up for discussion way back in the early days of CP, when things were just starting out. I had suggested it a while ago, but there honestly weren't that many people willing to write a walkthrough for their games... at that time anyway. That and there weren't that many games that actually required a walkthrough.

That's what made FFH unique, in that I actually had to refer to a walkthrough about once a month just to answer somebody's questions about it. Usually they all asked where to go after the airship.

Now we have more full length games filled with secrets and sidequests than we did a full year ago. If you'd like to see a Faq/Walkthrough section added to CP, I'm sure one of the admins would be more than happy to add it. In fact, it'd give me time to go back and RE-write up the original Timestream Saga walkthrough, so maybe I'll have that to be added in as well.

Aethereal · Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2003 9:38 am Post subject:

And if the original authors do not want to write up walkthroughs, I will write some for select games (I used to have a walkthrough of Memoria and...another game (I forget which, maybe FUABMX)), and I may take requests via a poll once in a while.
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Shadowiii · **It's been real.** Joined: 14 Feb 2003 Posts: 2460

Some authors put walkthroughs/hits in their games (Example: Pitch Black, Ends of the Earth, etc.)

Other then that...there is a Wandering Hamster walkthrough somewhere... Raspberry!

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RPGrealm5 · Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2003 9:59 am Post subject:

I'd really like to see a section like that put up. It gives the creator's achance to express their games in the way they wanted...
(For me, I could reveal secrets you would never ever ever find on your own... Happy

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The Wobbler · Joined: 06 Feb 2003 Posts: 2221

Aethereal · Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2003 11:27 am Post subject:

If this is going to become another "I (don't) want to see that" thread, I'm going to close it, as there is already one (or are there two?). I think we will add the section, but not immediately. Don't quote me on that, though.
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Fenrir-Lunaris · **WUT** Joined: 03 Feb 2003 Posts: 1747

Found it.

[FFH's Walkthrough]
http://66.159.241.110/fenart/FinalFantasyHFaq.doc

[Timestream Saga 1's Walkthrough]
http://66.159.241.110/fenart/calesagaFAQ.doc

They aren't incredibly detailed or anything, but they'll get you to the end no sweat.

Inferior Minion · Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2003 1:35 pm Post subject:

I've been trying to concieve an easy way of accomplishing a walkthrough section (luckily, the need is extremely low which gives me alot of time Oookay...

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The first problem is quality assurance.....since Admins will be putting the games into the list, how do we keep the walkthroughs accurate....I guess we could accept them and then allow changes if someone finds an error. The second option is to have all walkthroughs filtered through the author first...unless the author isn't a board member. That way, Admins could grab walkthroughs without the author's permission when needed, but most will have a "seal of approval" in a sense.

Second...how do we implement submissions other than e-mailing an HTML or Text document to an admin....I'd like to have something similar to the Reviews page...but Walkthroughs would have random images, no specific sections, everything's up to the author. I was thinking an "Image Bin"....a second, smaller page, opens up which allows for image uploads. Each image get's a label then there's an image tag like the BBCode....something like [img="label"]Alt Text[/img] or something....

Pepsi Ranger had e-mailed me an example Walkthrough and I've been trying to replicate it via text input...but I haven't done much work.

This is low on my list of things to implement Oookay...

The need just isn't there and I've got alot of other code on my plate at the moment.....
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Eggie · Joined: 12 May 2003 Posts: 904

Yeah, I would write a review for my game, because it's like in FF7 where you can date Yuffie, and it's really hard to do all the steps. Actually you date Christina Aguleria (I probably didn't spell that right.) Yeah, it's weird. Also I always just wanted to make a Walkthru for something because my overwhelming knowledge for some games. God, if I made a walkthru for FF6, it would be pretty detailed.