Hi there. I guess you are the creator of this wiki right? It seems that Tex fans are not also wiki fans, and I know well how it feels to maintain an lonely wiki. Thanks for tidying up my edits. As you see, I am going through my first playing of Mean Streets and I am writing "in real-time". That's why most of my edits seem like personal notekeeping at first, while I keep updating them as I progress in the game and gather more clues.
Just a question: Mean Streets is dated 2033, but I just saw in some webpages that the events occur in 2037. Is it a retcon? What should we do in Timeline? MoffRebusMy Talk 13:25, January 27, 2012 (UTC)
Hi MoffRebus.
Indeed I am the creator. But after a few limited pages, most of them lifted from Wikipedia, I realized that it was rather boring creating it all for myself. So I kind of forgot, but now that you have sparked some interest in the project, I'll try making some fixes. I'm not too good with infoboxes and templates, but I'm currently upgrading the character infobox, and trying to find a few pictures, to make the pages more interesting. If you know how to create one, feel free to make infoboxes for object, locations, etc.
It's hard to maintain a Timeline when it is retconned. I believe that Tex Murphy: Overseer which is kind of a remake of Mean Streets, and it states another year of some reason. Not sure what to do about it. One thing you can do is marking all references with sources. That is marking them as Mean Streets using the ref-tag or similar. Then we can try to handle this when we find conflicts. Any other ideas?
BTW: Thanks a lot for helping with this wiki!
--MrMamen 14:22, January 27, 2012 (UTC)
I took a break from Tex Murphy and decided to start the other 2 Access adventure titles, Amazon and Countdown, which are very similar to Martian Memorandum. I thought feeding those too to the wiki. Hope you are OK with that. MoffRebusMy Talk 14:32, February 10, 2012 (UTC)
- Since we are currently the only two contributors to this wiki, and you are the one contributing most, I feel that it should be your call as well as mine. One reason against it is that it would not be a "Tex Murphy"-wiki, but rather a "Access Software"-wiki. As far as I know there are no crossover references between the games. I don't know if we should or if it is possible to rename a wiki. But could you at least make some updates on the front-page, and create some templates which we can use on these separate pages? Does this make sense?
- On the positive side, I have a lot of information and screenshots of Countdown. In fact I wrote a complete point guide to the game, so I have a lot of info to contribute. BTW how do you get the improved signature?
- --MrMamen 15:00, February 10, 2012 (UTC)
Have you thought about this? Special:Promote. MoffRebusMy Talk 23:47, November 7, 2012 (UTC)
- Nope, I was not aware of this feature. Ideally I would prefer the styles and colors to look better before promoting, but as I neither seem to have the time nor competence to do this, why not go ahead? Feel free to submit that form.
- --MrMamen (talk) 08:07, November 8, 2012 (UTC)
Thank you, Mr. Mamen. I was actually on sick leave last week, wasn't in the mood for games, books or much of anything, so I thought maybe i should just sit on my bed.. and write some stuff for the wiki seeing how I'm a big fan of the Tex series. I'm not actually the best person to contribute since I haven't listen to the radio theater or played the first two games much. Those people at the Unofficial Tex Murphy Web Site are more qualified and i hope they would contribute some day. I'll try my best to make the wiki look as good as it can be whenever i have some free time om my hand( i have some knowledge in graphics design) Thank you again, Mr. Mamen. ;)
- If you have knowledge in graphic design you could make the wiki a bit more appealing. Colors on the infobox were copied directly from another wiki (bioshock wiki I believe). It would be great if you adjusted them so they are a bit unique. Same with all other color combinations you think need an overhaul. A better design may attract more readers and contributors. And also: you don't need to be an expert on Tex Murphy to contribute. As you have seen there are almost no information from Overseer, and the characters-pages are mostly based on their Mean Streets counterpart who has a different fates. See Big Jim Slade as an example. Don't worry if you don't have all the knowledge. Some contributors might prefer the old games, others the new games.
- --MrMamen (talk) 12:42, June 16, 2014 (UTC)
- I've changed the background and foreground color for a darker feel, and added a new welcome logo and woodmark image. I hope you like the new feel. I'm still a little lost with the infobox. I will read more on that later. (User:Mika101)
- Nice job indeed. Any idea for a favicon? The infobox is very hard to understand/change. But I'm trying to make it easy to use. ;-) Take a look at this page: Template:Infobox_character you can change everything inside ="style"-attributes to change the look. I assume you know html-style. If you do not, I can help you out. Cheers MrMamen (talk) 08:34, June 17, 2014 (UTC)
- I've added the favicons in the main page. Cheers~ (User:Mika101)
Ive left a whole page worth of pictures in the photo section of the wiki which should keep you busy for the next while theya are relevant for all the new pages i want filled and created(dont forget the infoboxes) anyways the pictures can be used for the infoboxes or for galleries of the characters.This should keep you busy for a while.If you need any pictures contact me
Carlowplayer (talk) 22:10, July 16, 2014 (UTC)
so yeah there is all of the photos up now .It starts on the previous page of the one with Sonny Fletcher in his white top to the pictures of Reagan these should keep you busy,give you a clue as to what is top priority and what can be filled in the infoboxes and the galleries.
Carlowplayer (talk) 23:01, July 16, 2014 (UTC)
So the idea is we'll sort out all the main parts of the FMV games Killing Moon,Pandora,Overseer,Tesla with regards to character profiles and building and the storyline.When you and others finish the work for me and ill come back after a week or three and then will do the storyline,walkthrough of Mean Streets and Martian Memorandum and then we'll do everything on that together ie characters,buildings and important items and thus have all the games done completly and then move onto behind the scenes stuff ie producers,actors etc.
Carlowplayer (talk) 05:09, July 17, 2014 (UTC)