Post by pixiez on Oct 26, 2020 8:28:18 GMT
Okay, hi, I guess I'm making a thread about Dizzywood proper. A while back, some of you lovely people helped me find a song from this game.
And I'll be real, hearing that song for the first time in almost a decade? Made me sentimental. And made me wonder.
Dizzywood is, in my humble opinion, probably the most likely MMO to be completely unsalvageable. It went down around 2011, before the big ones (Toontown and Pixie Hollow, for example), back before people really thought about archiving things. I was only, like, 10 years old, so I thought that everything on the Internet lasted forever.
The reason it went down is, to my knowledge, some flavour of money problems. It was bought out by another game, called Secretbuilders, which to my knowledge is also defunct or well on its way (the site is still up but seemingly not loading?). Dizzywood.com, for what it's worth, has become a simple blog page that's gone untouched since 2016. Admittedly, the fact they updated for about half a decade after the site's closure is impressive, but there's little there to work with and it's definitely dead now. (Though also, the Facebook was active as recently as 2018? Who knows what's going on).
But people still check the blog. I know this because, for kicks, recently I put a Discord link in the comments of their most recent post. I now have a server about a dozen strong. And the latest member is maybe the only other person on Earth trying to string together members of this long-gone community. For what it's worth, they've also tried reaching out to people, mostly through Reddit and Twitter, though with little success.
Maybe it's the nostalgia, but I remember Dizzywood really fondly. Something about it was just... different, I guess. It was really liberal with customization of your character and their clothing, it let your characters have superpowers (you could fly and turn invisible, to my knowledge), and there were a lot of charming minigames and events and such.
Also, it had this really... whimsical art style. Here's some of the art.
Anyways, like I said: Dizzywood was bought my Secretbuilders. The original company, Rocket Paper Scissors, is defunct. And the other person I'm working with just lost their last lead, and we're both pretty sure that Secretbuilders bought Dizzywood and chucked the files. When we were looking for Pyramid Party (the song) here on LMW, it looks like only four flash files were archived but no assets or anything.
I'm not one to make these kinds of dramatic claims, but I genuinely do fear that this stuff is lost forever, save for old YouTube videos and the like (there're a bunch of those!).
So, yeah. Maybe I'll stick this on the Wiki proper, but I thought y'all would like to know about it. Would be nice to have more than two people actively interested in whatever happened here.
And I'll be real, hearing that song for the first time in almost a decade? Made me sentimental. And made me wonder.
Dizzywood is, in my humble opinion, probably the most likely MMO to be completely unsalvageable. It went down around 2011, before the big ones (Toontown and Pixie Hollow, for example), back before people really thought about archiving things. I was only, like, 10 years old, so I thought that everything on the Internet lasted forever.
The reason it went down is, to my knowledge, some flavour of money problems. It was bought out by another game, called Secretbuilders, which to my knowledge is also defunct or well on its way (the site is still up but seemingly not loading?). Dizzywood.com, for what it's worth, has become a simple blog page that's gone untouched since 2016. Admittedly, the fact they updated for about half a decade after the site's closure is impressive, but there's little there to work with and it's definitely dead now. (Though also, the Facebook was active as recently as 2018? Who knows what's going on).
But people still check the blog. I know this because, for kicks, recently I put a Discord link in the comments of their most recent post. I now have a server about a dozen strong. And the latest member is maybe the only other person on Earth trying to string together members of this long-gone community. For what it's worth, they've also tried reaching out to people, mostly through Reddit and Twitter, though with little success.
Maybe it's the nostalgia, but I remember Dizzywood really fondly. Something about it was just... different, I guess. It was really liberal with customization of your character and their clothing, it let your characters have superpowers (you could fly and turn invisible, to my knowledge), and there were a lot of charming minigames and events and such.
Also, it had this really... whimsical art style. Here's some of the art.
Anyways, like I said: Dizzywood was bought my Secretbuilders. The original company, Rocket Paper Scissors, is defunct. And the other person I'm working with just lost their last lead, and we're both pretty sure that Secretbuilders bought Dizzywood and chucked the files. When we were looking for Pyramid Party (the song) here on LMW, it looks like only four flash files were archived but no assets or anything.
I'm not one to make these kinds of dramatic claims, but I genuinely do fear that this stuff is lost forever, save for old YouTube videos and the like (there're a bunch of those!).
So, yeah. Maybe I'll stick this on the Wiki proper, but I thought y'all would like to know about it. Would be nice to have more than two people actively interested in whatever happened here.
Thank you!! And yeah, I'm not sure exactly how to CONTACT most of the people I've mentioned (Scott has DMs off, Lauren seems to only have LinkedIn, and Jake Parker is, y'know, the Inktober guy, so I don't imagine he's easy to get a hold of), but it's definitely something worth trying. In the meantime, though, time to bug other Flash fanatics! 
