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20th Birthday Banners

Posted: Wed Mar 01, 2017 08:14 am
by Tchernobog
It was twenty years ago this month that Blood started to flow from the hands of Monolith Productions out to the public at large. To celebrate this, the Blood Wiki will be hosting animated banners on its Main Page for each significant milestone starting with the release of the Blood Shareware in March:
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http://www.blood-wiki.org/index.php/Main_Page

I will never for the life of me understand why they removed those messages in the full retail version. :shrug:

Re: 20th Birthday Banners

Posted: Fri Mar 03, 2017 02:18 am
by Manhs
Nice ! ^^
The release of the first version of the game is may 31, right ? :)

Re: 20th Birthday Banners

Posted: Fri Mar 03, 2017 06:02 pm
by Tchernobog
Manhs wrote:The release of the first version of the game is may 31, right ? :)
The North American retail release by GT Interactive, yes.

Re: 20th Birthday Banners

Posted: Sat Mar 04, 2017 02:54 pm
by N0t_mINe
I wonder if there's anything in the Blood credits that might make for a decent banner?

Re: 20th Birthday Banners

Posted: Tue Mar 07, 2017 09:28 pm
by Tchernobog
So we have been playing around with video on the Blood Wiki and now have an expanded video version of the banner also available:
http://www.blood-wiki.org/index.php/Fil ... Video.webm

Just follow the link above or click the original banner on the Main Page.

Re: 20th Birthday Banners

Posted: Thu Mar 09, 2017 02:34 am
by dosgamer000
This is pretty cool.

Re: 20th Birthday Banners

Posted: Sat Mar 11, 2017 02:12 pm
by N0t_mINe
haha! awesome! :bat: :evillaugh: :gargoyle:

Re: 20th Birthday Banners

Posted: Mon Apr 03, 2017 11:23 pm
by Tchernobog
So the banner stayed up a few days longer than it should have because at the turn of the month I was up all night saving the life of a calf. Needless to say I had some more important things on my mind at the time than changing the banner, such as getting more than a couple hours sleep.

Anyway, any suggestions for what we should capture for the retail release in May? :guns:

Re: 20th Birthday Banners

Posted: Wed Apr 05, 2017 11:06 pm
by dosgamer000
Tchernobog wrote:So the banner stayed up a few days longer than it should have because at the turn of the month I was up all night saving the life of a calf. Needless to say I had some more important things on my mind at the time than changing the banner, such as getting more than a couple hours sleep.

Anyway, any suggestions for what we should capture for the retail release in May? :guns:
Hmmm...maybe something involving the many shades of our robed friends the Cabal?

Re: 20th Birthday Banners

Posted: Thu Apr 27, 2017 07:12 am
by Tchernobog
We captured the footage for the May retail release banner today. See you all on Monday. :shooting:

Re: 20th Birthday Banners

Posted: Sat May 06, 2017 11:12 pm
by Tchernobog
Have not had the chance to post since life went to hell on me, but we did upload our retail release banner for May:
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Also see the full video version with audio:
http://www.blood-wiki.org/index.php/Fil ... Video.webm

We wanted to continue to capture aspects of the game that are kooky, so we decided to go with the venerable Flame Guy bug. :veryangry:

Re: 20th Birthday Banners

Posted: Mon May 08, 2017 10:01 pm
by VGames
What happened to your life if you don't mind me asking?

Re: 20th Birthday Banners

Posted: Sun May 21, 2017 05:37 pm
by Tchernobog
VGames wrote:What happened to your life if you don't mind me asking?
I am not going to get into too many details, but we had to euthanize the calf we spent the previous month trying to keep going.

As far as kicks in the teeth go that one is pretty major. :banghead:

Re: 20th Birthday Banners

Posted: Mon May 22, 2017 05:41 pm
by VGames
That sucks. Was it bad for you in a feelings kind of way or was it in a loss of money kind of way? Or both? For me it would have been emotionally bad. I love animals.

Just this last Friday I had to put down the last kitten we had. The others died and we were hoping this one would make it. He was very energetic and adventurous. Poor little dude. Didn't want him to suffer.

Re: 20th Birthday Banners

Posted: Mon May 22, 2017 07:52 pm
by Tchernobog
It is difficult emotionally sure, and we will take a financial hit for it, yes. It also has ramifications for our herd management. The mother of the calf in question has now lost two out of the four calves she has had, meaning that her place on the farm is in doubt. In contrast, our oldest cow is going to be turning ten this year and has given us eight healthy calves, never losing one. We have to consider the possibility that the mother herself may be the problem.

I also can not say that my own health has been improved by going out in all kinds of weather at all times of the day and night trying to keep the poor critter alive through one of the worst springs we have had in my own living memory.

And I am sorry to hear about your kittens.