Shadowlock’s HeroScape Site

I’d like to take a moment and make everyone know that in the next several weeks, the SHS website will be taken offline for good.  Once this happens, these maps will no longer be available for download from this website.  I’m discontinuing my web-hosting service and all sub-domains / websites that are associated with it will cease to be.  I have made arrangements to turn my collection of maps over to a member of the HeroScapers.com community, in which they may then distribute them, modify them, or do whatever they would like.  The only request that I have is that if anyone takes a map from here and uses it, that they still give the original map makers (no matter if it is me or another SHS member) credit for the map design.

I’ve had a lot of fun being a part of the HeroScape community in the past few years.  There was a lot of work that went into making not only these maps, but the site as well.  As the years have rolled on from playing HeroScape, I find that my attention to time and detail for making maps has been impacted greatly.  I’ve started some new projects in my life (non-game related) that are forcing me to let go of a few things that I was associated with, while picking up others, and HeroScape has been one of those casualties.  I still find time to play the occasional game here and there, but after attempting to make a few maps last week (after not have made any for a very long time…) I have found that my map making skills have decreased significantly.

I thank all of you that have come here to visit the SHS and been a part of things in the past.  I wish I could say that I have enjoyed being part of other HeroScape communities (some I actually were), but the problems that are faced with some of them probably will never be resolved and honestly, probably has helped contribute to my lack of involvement with them in the past.  It’s a shame too, because there are a lot of good people in some of the communities.  It’s just too bad that the problems within the communities have to overshadow the deeds of those individuals.

I look forward to any future wave releases and I hope to still be able to be a part of HeroScape, in terms of game play.  Until this site goes down, please feel free to continue to download the maps that are on this site while you can and I hope that they will provide you with some enjoyment during your HeroScape playing sessions.

-Nadious

Hey everyone.  I figured I would take a few minutes to let you all know as to why there hasn’t been any updates lately.  The good news is that I’m alive and well… the bad news, however, is that my HeroScaping days have come to a halt here in the last several months.  I had gotten my hands on the Aquilla’s Alliance set (along with two jungle terrain packs) and after a few games… they have sat here collecting dust.  The sad part of this, more than likely, is that I won’t be focusing much time and effort into HeroScape anytime in the future.

As many of you know, in the past, I had ran a small private game server based off the Ultima On-line platform.  That shard had been running for over a year, when we hit a big ‘lull’ in the playing.  This was due to several factors, but in the end, our core group of players had just lost interest in what the shard was becoming.  Less than a month ago, after being in ‘limbo’ for nearly 5 or 6 months, our core group of players decided that we wanted to take the shard in a different direction.  So, in the long run, the shard was redone and ‘relaunched’ right before Christmas.  We have expanded our core player base and the game has been a lot of fun.  As we continue to evole the Shadowlock Renascent shard, I’m afraid to say that most of my time will be spent there… instead of playing HeroScape.

This site will remain here as it is, as we still get a lot of traffic to the site on a daily basis.  We still want people to be able to use our maps for playing, but just realize that the number of new maps that will be released in the coming months ahead will be VERY MINIMAL, if any at all.  I’m sure that I will play some HeroScape at some point and time during this time period, but my attention to releasing new maps (or even designing them) is almost non-exsistant at this point and will more than likely be this way for a good while.  I’ve just become too involved in various projects right now and I’m having to spread out the amount of time I can devote to them.  Sadly, HeroScape is one of those that is getting scaled back.

I thank everyone that’s used our maps in the past.  I hope you all will continue to find some use out of them in the future.  Feel free to continue to post in our forums and send e-mails… but I can’t promise that I’ll be able to give you a speedy reply, if any reply at all.

I wish you all a happy new year in 2009 and hope that you all have some great Scape Days ahead.

Oops!  Looks like we made a boo-boo.  We accidentally listed Tropic Thunder (1J) as a 1 RotV map, when it is actually a 2 RotV map.  We have updated the codex to reflect this change, as well as moving the map to the correct map index.  You can now find this map listed under the 2 RotV Map Index for download.

Sorry about that!  *Blush*

Keewee brought it to my attention that the ratings system here on the site wasn’t functioning properly.  I wasn’t aware that it was broken, until he pointed that out.  It appears that there were some changes made in the plugin code that made some conflicts with what we were using.  Good news, however, is that we got the ratings working again.  (Should you run across a map page that doesn’t have a place to cast a vote, please notify us.)  Remember, you must be logged in to rate a map.

It looks like the ratings might have stopped working properly back in August, as this was around the time that the last map on the site was rated.  We apologize for any trouble this might have caused our registered users.  The ratings system should be working again and we invite everyone to cast votes for their favorite maps!