The International House of Mojo

While you all await the winners of the EMI contest to be announced, let me take this time to tell you about some projects soon to open at Mixnmojo.

The first is a site dedicated to those of you who develop and create your own adventure games. Adventure Developer will be opening in no time at all and will offer resources, reviews, tutorials, and more to help you with your adventure games developing.

The second is our downloads. Since we moved to this server our downloads have been offline, but hopefully, just before Christmas day we can launch Mojo Downloads. This site will provide a great front end for our download archive, similar in many ways to FilePlanet.com. The archive will be searchable and feature Top 10 and featured downloads.

All this and many more exciting projects to launch soon! Stay tuned!

It's the end of the day on December 15th and you know what that means. That's right, the Ultimate Insult contest has come to an end and no more submissions will be accepted. Thanks go out to everyone who participated and we'll announce the winners shortly. Best of luck to all.

Well, we've broken out the Xmas snow to make our page look all festive (thanks Jake!) There is even a sweet Snowman at the bottom of the page.. awwwwww!
So start rejoicing as Xmas is here, and have a very Mojo Xmas from us all!

You only have a days worth of hours before entries for the Insult contest are no longer accepted!
Go submit those insults to win a copy of EMI signed by the project leaders!

Woah! Bluesnews, has redesigned after many thousands of years of looking really horrible, but with a nice logo.
It now looks rather nice with a slighty smaller nice logo! Woo.
Did i mention that its still roughly the same colours? which is good - I can't cope with too much change at once!

Ok, the server died last week, and was rebuilt, and because of that a setting which was apparently there before but ddint work now works.
If you have an @mixnmojo.com account you'll need this info:
In order to be able to send mail aswell as receive it, you'll need to select "Allow Authorization for Sending Mail" and enter your login in the Settings box in Outlook
I'm sure its similar for any others email proggies. Any questions? mail me

Ben Whatsisname, Webmaster of The Kickstand and master of many other Mojo projects, has some great news:
His Daughter, here-by nickmamed baby_Whatsername was born at 1:11am on 12/11/00, wieghing 6 lbs, 6 ounces and 18 inches long.

Instead of crying, she looked at me and cried "I wanna be a pirate!" That's my baby!

Excellent news, Congratulations to Ben and Mrs Ben.
A feature on the kickstand will be up as soon as Irecover the needed files from a deadened hard drive.

Insult submissions to the Ultimate Insult Contest end on December 15, which is just a week away! If you haven't entered yet you're not only missing out on the chance to go down in history as a hilarious fellow, but also a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to win FABulous PRIzes like copies of EMI autoographed by Mike Stemmle and Sean Clark and other prizes we may or may not have thought up yet!

How do you enter? Go to the Ultimate Insult Contest page, think of an ingenius insult, equally clever comeback, and the game you'd be playing while delivering it and you're eligible to win. All entries will be judged by Mixnmojo staff and EMI project leaders Mike Stemmle and Sean Clark.

Already entered one insult? Enter more, you're not limited to just one! Never seen this site before in your life? Then sign up for a My.Mixnmojo account, then fire away!

Ok folks the time has come, we NEED new advertisers. Flycast suck! we need a decent agency, affiliate, or someone who wants to sell advertising for us. If you know anything or can help, please email me. Thanks.

Well, hi everyone. I'm mercatfat, your new news updater. I'm also working on some things for Mojo, such as walkthroughs, game guides, and a couple other projects that'll be unveiled in time.

It's a real pleasure to work for a fine website like this. If you wish to contact me, my email is mercatfat@mixnmojo.com,
and my ICQ is 99679623.

Have a great day, everyone! :)

So you entered the LucasArts EMI contest and didn't win. Or even worse, you weren't eligible to enter since you live outside the United States. If that's the case, we've got some good news. Mixnmojo in collaboration with LucasArts is pleased to announce our own contest where 10, count them 10 copies of Escape From Monkey Island signed by Mike Stemmle and Sean Clark are being awarded as prizes.

But wait, you ask, what's the contest? It's quite simple, you have to come up with the Ultimate Insult. Send us your best insult filled with piratey wit a la Monkey Island. Check out the rules and regulations and send in your insults here, and good luck!

Thanks for all the bugs reported. however only a few of you are filling in the steps to reproduce field. this field basically means. 'how do you get this bug to occur?' and is vital for LucasArts to be able to reproduce your bug. It should contain info lke

1. play to Lucre Island
2. walk to chess players
3. dance a merry jig

Thanks all.

If you're bored, or have a few dollars to throw away, why not visit Ebay where you can buy a matchbox illustrated with Monkey Island (not the game) hmmmm

Well our weeks of Bombad Racing featured pics have lead us to this: an interview with the Project Leader on the game from LucasLearning; Michael McCormick.

Which will be the best incarnation of the game - Psx2, DC, PC or MAC?

The PS2 version of the game will have the highest poly models and environments as well as more special effects.

The interview is 3 pages long with a number of fantastic new screenshots!

It seems that the page we designed to report bugs, has bugs! Firstly, my coding was a little sloppy, causing the title image to show above every bug report. I fixed that, but unfortunately, huge images are stretching the tables.

I'm taking the EMI bug section offline for a short while - don't worry, it'll be back before you know it!

UPDATE!!:

I've fixed the page now, and the EMI Bug Reporter is back. For now, we simply have to ask you - please ensure any screenshots you upload to the bug page are less than 400 pixels in width otherwise it skews up the page. We'll have a better fix for this problem when DJG gets back from Thanksgiving break (he has so many more ideas than me). Thanks for your understanding! Many happy bug reports!

UPDATE!! by DJG

Hey all, well, right now you can pretty much upload whatever size image you want, but it's only going to be displayed as a 400x300 image so keep that in mind. And thanks to everyone who submitted bugs! Hopefully there's someone out there you can lend a hand.

Right, we were getting so many bug reports sent to us, we set up this bug reporter for Escape From Monkey Island. The patch is now released so we hope there wont be too many, but those we get reported will be sent to LucasArts.

to submit a bug go here
Or you can browse the bugs already submitted here.
This lovely reporter made by DJG, designed by me, and updated by Jamesh

Narrative didnt know that I planned to launch this article today.. so continuing on from his blurbings (see below) may I present to you:
The Old Days Part 6: The ScummBar
This final part of the old days feature takes a look at the site that started it all, with an interview with Skyfox and some great old logos. a must for both old and new visitors of The Scumm Bar.
This article was meant to be written to celebrate The Scumm Bar's 4th year online - I was a little late, So Happy Belated Birthday!

TheScummBar.Com hasn't been in the news for a while here at Mixnmojo, although it deserves it!
With the recent buzz of EMI news and features, I recommend you visit the TheScummBar.Com as regularly as you visit Mixnmojo for your Monkey Island news as their is a lot of features, news and content which aren't mentioned or featured on Mixnmojo.
Amongst which is an exclusive interview with Dominic "Guybrush" Threepwood. Before you dismiss another samey LEC interview, don't bat your eye-lid just yet... this is an interview with a difference!
Also Note- Dom has a Gromit (Ala Nick Park's "Wallace & Gromit") stuffed toy! Hehe, well that made me chuffed anyway...

Right for some time I've had a CD copy of LOOM sitting here, waiting to be used as a prize in a contest. But we can't think of any decent contests right now (actually thats a lie we have a much bigger one planned). We need you lot to come up with a competition that we can run, the winner of which gets LOOM. Something involving retro LEC, something creative! Go readers go, send me ideas! The winner of this mini find-a-contest-contest will get.. an email address @ mixnmojo.com and thescummbar.com (when we resolve its DNS).

There is a new poll! Voice your opinion on the posibility of a Monkey Island 5 with our new poll; "After playing EMI, what do you think of the chances of a fifth game?"