Oh my gosh, hi!!! Welcome to the club! I remember pretty much everything you spoke about hang on.
Mulch was used for growing plants, if memory serves? And I don't know exactly what you're talking about in the chasm, but I totally remember the forest minigame to get to the treehouse, and there totally was a gazebo, and there was a whole city in the sky!!
And yeah, if memory serves, Secretbuilders bought out Dizzywood, promised they'd do stuff with it, and then... never did? I remember a whole Dizzywood section on the map that was covered in "Coming soon" signs right to the site's collapse.
But yes, there're a lot of us who remember it! I think we posted the Discord server a while back, but if you want another link I'll happily hand one over; we're about 70 members strong now which is just crazy
if you don't have a good sense of humour, you're better off dead! [they/them]
Somehow, our silly little Discord server full of nostalgia and on and off remake efforts found itself in the hands of Scooter, one of the founders/creators of the game itself!
And he's still got access to the FLA files. Which apparently still WORK.
Some other assets are on the way.
This is honestly more than I ever expected we'd get--it's crazy!
if you don't have a good sense of humour, you're better off dead! [they/them]
I won't lie, I'm mostly updating this thread to archive the really exciting stuff going on somewhere, because the server's pretty active now and I don't want it getting lost. Also, who knows--maybe there're some lurkers who wanna be kept in the loop!
As someone who was just looking for old assets and the like, where we're at now is incredible! We've got over 200 members on the server, and our remake head is working with the files the old founder--Scott/"Scooter," who I mentioned earlier--gave us. I think this has been a passion project from the start for the lot of us, so it's really exciting seeing things pick up speed.
Check out this HD mockup of Breakwater Beach!
if you don't have a good sense of humour, you're better off dead! [they/them]