Blake’s Sanctum 2023 End of Year Report, News & Thankyous!

Hi guys! 🙂 Well it’s that time of the year again where I look back on the year with the website, this blog, the youtube channel, my mod projects, and talk about what’s to come! Sadly the health troubles (which are suspiciously long covid like despite still never catching covid as far as I know) I mentioned in last year’s end of year round up continued into this year resulting in very limited productivity as you don’t get much done when you’re dizzy, brain fogged and tired all the time, so all my energy went into holding my RL job! As a result there isn’t a huge amount done this year to talk about sadly, however the in last few months a nutritionist was able to help me big time with some good supplements and my brain seems to be firing on all cylinders again allowing me to get some stuff done that sets everything up nicely for 2024 where I ‘should’ be releasing all my Civ2 mods and videos finally after all these years in the making.

In last years roundup I talked about how the webcounters at the Blake’s Sanctum website stopped working and while the new one seems to be going okay now I suspect it’s not quite catching everyone as I still see it failing to load sometimes when I visit the site. Nevertheless it’s now 82,959 compared to last years 77,747 so it’s gone up around 5k which is half what the yearly increase used to be. Probably caused by my lack of updates to the site, Google prioritizing mobile friendly websites in search results, and the aforementioned counter issues.

However my wordpress blog here has had a big increase in traffic! Last year I was annoyed about it dropping from the usual 10k visits a year to 5k, however this year has made up for it nicely as its currently sitting on 64,177 hits which is a 13k increase from the 51,000 hits at last years update. I’ve been posting much more news this year which may have helped and I continue to get good hits each week on my old 2017 Star Trek Birth of The Federation 2 projects post, my 2021 Dune 3hr Alternative Edition 4K Fan Cut post, my 2022 Warcraft 2 HD & 3D Remakes post has started becoming popular, and my more recent 2023 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Hack of Streets of Rage 2 post has started gaining momentum too. However just like last year the top post way above them all appears to be my Walking Dead Webisodes post where I try to keep track of where people can watch all these not so well known extra side stories from the WD universe.

As usual all my blog news posts are copied over to my Patreon page too which would increase my news hit totals however Patreon still don’t give any total annual views stats so who knows how many visitors I’ve had there lol. However my friggin awesome Patreon Jack is still with me after another year, so thank you mate! Jack originally started supporting me because of my lost Civilization 2 scenario preservation work which will be hopefully getting some big updates in 2024 as I had some great new Civ2 scenario collection donations given to me this year, so I’m looking forward to seeing what treasures await in them to add to the repository! I already know that some more of the lost scenarios I’d been looking for are in these collections which is great news! Also I must give a special thankyou to Brendan who sent me a huge donation as thanks for (barely) helping him with an OpenIG (Imperium Galactica 1 fan remake) technical issue, that one was a big shock! What a nice guy! 🙂

2022 was a very bad year for my Youtube channel with me barely posting anything due to my ongoing Civilization mod and video work however I did a little bit better in 2023 and managed to post a whole bunch of fun BAR (Total Annihilation fan remake game) videos from LAN parties and as a Christmas gift I’ve just released my Heroes of Might & Magic 2 Civ2 mod tour video! I was originally going to keep it unlisted until I’d finished my main Civ2 tour video but meh it’s Christmas and I wanna end the year by giving my poor long suffering youtube followers something.. anything haha! The channel has 1.3k subscribers which is only about 100 up from the 1.2k a year ago which is no surprise considering my low activity however I’ve got gigs of edited videos almost ready for publishing so hopefully by the end of 2024 I’ll have a whole bunch of cool new Civilization related videos out there for people to enjoy as well as videos on some other interesting things I’ve recorded and have on standby. Sadly because my total public watch hours time is still below 4,000 I still can’t re-monetize the channel which is annoying but hopefully once I push out all the new Civ content that’ll change things! However in the end it’s not the end of the world as I don’t create videos to make money, I create them to share my love of great gaming/modding content with fellow fans!

I said in last years update that I would be releasing all my Civ2 scenarios this year but sadly yet again despite working endlessly on them all I have not been able to get them all done sadly. However all that work has paid off in that I recently released the first and biggest of my big Civ2 scenarios based of Heroes of Might & Magic 2 which means the others (which are in a near finished state) are soon to follow and I have got my big huge Civ2 HD tour video almost finished too which means 2024 will be the year I finally get all this stuff out there to the world! I can’t wait! So stay tuned… 🙂

Well I think that’s enough rambling for this year. As always thank you everyone who has supported my work over the years. Hope you all have a lovely Christmas and news years. Let’s knock down some retro gaming goals in 2024 (as I sure as hell didn’t in 2023 haha)! 😛

Surprisingly I did manage to push through the fog and do a decent bit of work on the Blake’s Sanctum website this year so here’s the latest summary below…

Blake’s Sanctum 2022 End of Year Report, News & Thankyous!

Hey guys! 🙂 Well another year has gone by and once again it’s wasn’t a particularly great one for me health wise, but hey I’m still going (reasonably) strong and am looking forward to travelling again soon (on a fun holiday for a mates wedding where I’m on best man duties!) as it’s been a few years! So as usual this is the time of the year that I look back on the year, check out all the stats and report on how things have been going for Blake’s Sanctum and talk about what’s to come!

In last years round up I commented that Blake’s Sanctum website traffic had dropped from the usual 10,000+ a year visitors however it turned out that once again the old counter site I was using was not working properly and was being blocked by most browsers due to being classic http and not https SSL certified. Then the whole counter site died completely! So in actual fact I probably did have the usual amount of visitors in 2021 but just couldn’t see them due to these issues. So in 2022 I got another counter, then that died, then another counter that seems to only work sometimes, plus I had issues with people going to the old http version of my site and not getting redirected to the certified https version (which I’ve just fixed) and the counter only worked on one and not the other, so I’ve had no friggin luck with this lol. It’s currently sitting on 77,747 so it’s safe to say I DID actually hit the big 70,000 mark this time last year and I’m probably actually around the 80,000 mark now if not more! I should look into counters I can host myself as all the free ones out there hosted elsewhere are useless these days!

My wordpress blog here has suffered a legit drop in hits though as last year I was closing in on 45,000 continuing the blogs usual form of around 10k hits a year too however right now it’s on just over 51,000 hits so only just over 5k this year. I’ve been posting more news than previous years so reasons could be lack of work on my main website and some of my most popular posts (eg the 2017 Star Trek Birth of The Federation 2 projects post) becoming old and moving down the ranking in google searches. This years top post appears to be my Walking Dead Webisodes post where I try to keep track of where people can watch all these not so well known extra side stories from the WD universe.

All my blog news posts are copied over to my Patreon page too which would increase my news hit totals however Patreon don’t give seem to give total annual views stats so who knows how many visitors I’ve had there lol. However I’m very pleased that my first (& probably last lol) Patreon Jack is still with me after a year, thank you sir! I believe Jack originally decided to support me because of my lost Civilization 2 scenario preservation work which had some brilliant successes this year with donors giving me some huge collections to add to the repository resulting in literally thousands of lost fan creations and some truly awesome scenarios I’d been looking for being found and saved!

Once the Civ2 MGE preservation work was completed (at least until the next scenario collection donation comes) mid year, I then set about getting back to work on my huuuuge Civilization 2 tour video I’ve been working on for years (which the scenario preservation work all feeds into) and then also finally got back to working on finishing all my own Civ2 scenario mod projects. I’m pleased to say that as soon as I’m back from my holiday I’ll be able to start releasing all my Civ2 mods and videos meaning 2023 will finally be the year where I finish up most of my Civ2 work and can move on to Test of Time and do a bit of preservation work along with releasing a couple of scenarios I’ve made for that too. This is a big step in me moving on in the Civilization series and wrapping up all the videos and the big Civilization series section website work, finally freeing me up to play more other games and work on other new sections of the site as well as updating old sections (I keep word docs with all the new fan projects I find & the lists are getting massive!).

Speaking of me working on the website I just wanted to say I haven’t totally neglected it over the past few years lol! As previous posted I decided to start paying for a website host giving me the space I needed to solve all my image hosting issues. I then painstakingly fixed broken image links across the site replacing all the old dead Photobucket links with new locally hosted ones (although I’ve still gotta replace some of my newer Imgur ones but at least they still work for now so replacing them is not urgent). I also did a bit of work to update the old WIP Final Fantasy Series tribute page making it more accessible and ‘ready’ for adding game tributes to, I also then used it as a template to create 2 more preliminary WIP pages for the other 2 sections I’m planning to create on the site over the next few years, a Resident Evil Series tribute page and a Wonder Boy Monster World Series tribute page. A few times over the last couple of years I’ve wanted to get started on adding tributes but because the pages weren’t setup I deemed it too much work time I should be spending on continuing work on the Civilization section, so it feels to good to have finally laid the foundation for me easily adding tributes to them in the future. I’ve hinted at these new sections over the last few years but I guess you can consider this an official announcement that these new game series sections will be coming to Blake’s Sanctum haha!

And lastly once again because of nearly all my free time going into the Civilization work not much has happened over on the Blake’s Sanctum Youtube channel this year. In fact I think I’ve only released one video this year which is terrible lol, I’m going to start getting “are you dead?” comments on my channel again at this rate lol! I’ve actually filmed a whole bunch of videos from LAN parties and my own gaming sessions however because of all the Civ video work I keep delaying them. So I’ll work to remedy that and get some of these other gaming videos out there in Feb/March after my holiday. Then once I start releasing the big Civ2 videos the channel will really come to life again as I’ve got so much content in the pipeline (literally gigs of unreleased recordings I’ve got backed up on like 3 portable hard drives cause I’m scared of losing it all lol). Anyway despite my inactivity the channel finally hit the big 1000 subscribers earlier in the year and nearly 200 more wonderful people have subbed me since. Sadly because my total public watch hours time is still below 4,000 I still can’t re-monetize the channel which is annoying but hopefully once I push out all the content that’ll change things! However in the end it’s not the end of the world as I don’t create videos to make money, I create them to share my love of great gaming/modding content with fellow fans!

Well I think that’s enough rambling for this year. Thank you everyone who has supported my site over the years. Hope you all had a lovely Christmas and let’s knock down some retro gaming goals in 2023! 🙂

PS – Oh and I haven’t done a list of site changes since 2018 so here’s a new one below covering everything I’ve done since then…

Website host upgrade – image links are working again!

Hey guys, thought I’d share some great news about finally solving some of the annoying Blake’s Sanctum website problems I’ve posted about previously. Yes Blake’s sanctum has now gone ‘legit’ on paid hosting and all my large image links should be fixed! 🙂

To explain, in it’s over 20 year history Blake’s Sanctum has always resided on free hosting and while a number of kind people have offered me free private hosting in the past I’ve always declined since if anything happened to them and their server I’d lose everything (& ironically all those people who made those offers have since disappeared along with their servers and websites so I made the right choice!).

However the choice to remain on free hosting has always caused problems with limited space and bandwidth allocations. Back in the Geocities and Webring days my site would frequently go down due to too many visitors, while thanks to their tiny storage limits all of my large images had to be stored on others sites offering free image hosting which created other problems I’ll get to in a minute. My current free website host X10 has been pretty good however it along with 000WebHost and many other modern day hosts have clever check-in systems in place that require you to log in and view your dashboard every month otherwise they delete EVERYTHING for inactivity. Which means if anything happens to me then the website goes down anyway, in fact I’ve already lost my 000WebHost mirror copy of my website due to me forgetting to log in to them so despite me setting up calendar reminders it was only going to be a mater of time before I lost everything on my main x10 website. So it’s time to change my strategy…

Website News & First Patron!

Hey guys, well another year has gone by and it’s been a bit of a rough one for the site and for me lol! Some of my chronic pain issues have come back again but I’m doing my best to push on and not let them get in the way of my creativity, job and life! As for the website as previously posted sadly Photobucket have deliberately broken all my pictures on the website so if you click on any of the thumbnails you’ll be taken to some stupid Photobucket join us page. Because I’m still very busy with my never ending big new WIP Civilization section and Civilization HD video series I still haven’t started the nightmarish task of fixing all the broken pictures links across the rest of the site but I will eventually! Blake’s Sanctum is closing in on the big 70,000 visitors mark (should hit in next few weeks) but it’s been more than a year since I posted about hitting the 60,000 mark which shows a bit of a drop from the usual 10,000+ visitors a year (EDIT: Turns out I haven’t really lost viewers, it’s just the counters being blocked due to them not using SSL/https). However that doesn’t really surprise me as obviously there’s been no big updates, no new sections, the picture links are broken, and google limits old non-mobile phone friendly websites in its search results, however hopefully once my new Civ section is finished and I can start fixing up the other areas it’ll increase the traffic again. 🙂

Also this WordPress blog is about to hit the 45,000 hits mark which considering it was about to hit 35,000 in my last post a over year ago it shows a similar near 10,000 growth a year total visitors like the main site which is good. As usual the most popular posts appear to be my Dune 3 Hour Extended Edition post and my Star Trek Birth of the Federation 2 sequels post

And finally I’d like to post some rather amazing news as no one is more shocked than me haha! I have a new Patron!!!! Thank you very very much Jack, you’re my first ever Patron and you’ll probably be my last hahaha! 😛 As to be honest I never expected to get one as I don’t exactly offer any amazing rewards/benefits to people following me. I’m not a fan of putting important retro work behind a paywall so all my work with the website, my mod projects, and my Civilization fan scenarios/mods preservation work is fully public and fully available to all! As a result of that I never really expected anyone to donate other than to say thankyou. So thank you Jack for thanking me haha, gives me extra motivation to keep working away on all this! Speaking of thank you’s I also received a very generous PayPal donation from a kind fellow named Brendan earlier this year as he’s a big fan of my Quest for Glory Series section on my website and he actually runs his own QFG fan website that’s even more immersive and ‘in-game’ feeling than mine so go check it out! Lastly I’m pleased to say that I’m finally closing in on that elusive 1000 subscribers on youtube mark (EDIT: We hit it!!!) so thank you to everyone who’s subbed me! It’s taken a long time but hopefully in the next few months I’ll be able to reactivate monetization on my videos, I just need those watch hours to get up a bit more but hopefully the new Civilization HD video series I’ve finally started releasing episodes for will help with that!

Fingers crossed this next year is a good one! Once again thank you to everyone who’s supported my work! It’s really appreciated! 🙂

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Civ Video Series Ep 01 – Civilization 1 HD Tour With Mods & Scenarios

Civilization Genre HD Video Series:
Welcome to the first episode in a huge video series years in the making where I show you how to play each classic Civilization genre game (including spinoffs) in 1080p HD, while showing off some of their best scenarios and mods along with their interesting and sometimes very different console conversions, plus also trying to play as the Barbarians in each game too. Naturally this first main episode is about Sid Meier’s Civilization 1! 🙂 Later in the series I’ll also be looking at fan games and naturally at some point I’ll get to the more modern Civ games that don’t require any tricks to play in HD and will still tribute them too of course! In many cases there’s simply too much to cover in one main episode so I’ll also be making special extra bonus episodes to compliment the main episodes in the series, so stay tuned!

• Main Episode 01 – Civilization 1 (You are here!)
• Main Episode 02 – Colonization
• Main Episode 03 – Master of Magic (Delayed)
• Main Episode 04 – Civilization 2 (Coming soon)
• Main Episode 05 – Civ2 Test of Time (Coming less soon)
• Main Episode 06 – Alpha Centauri (Coming less soon)
• Main Episode 07 – Civ Call to Power (Coming next year)
• Main Episode 08 – Call to Power 2 (Coming next year)
• Main Episode 09 – Civilization 3 (Coming next year)
• Main Episode 10 – Civilization 4 (Coming next decade)
• Main Episode 11 – Civ4 Colonization (Coming next decade)
• Main Episode 12 – Civilization 5 (Coming next century)
• Main Episode 13 – Civ Beyond Earth (Coming next century)
• Main Episode 14 – Civilization 6 (Coming next lifetime)
• Main Episode 15 – Old World (Coming next lifetime)
• Main Episode 16 – Humankind (Coming next lifetime)
• Misc Episodes – Civ Fan Games – FreeCiv, FreeCol, FreeMars & More (Coming very soon)

Main Episode 01 – Civilization 1 HD Tour:
Main video on playing Civ1 in HD with mods & scenarios:
Years in the making this is a huge video tour showcasing Sid Meier’s Civilization 1 in HD using CivWin (NOT CivNet) in a virtual machine with some of its best mods and scenarios. This is the first main episode in a huge series showing people how you can play classic Civilization genre games in HD on modern systems with some of the best enhancement mods out there. I try to show off some of the best fan made scenarios too (yes, there were scenarios for Civ1!), along with some lesser known console conversions, and I also show you how to play as the normally unplayable Barbarians 8th Civilization slot.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVfpkzb_C3g&list=PLZqnaGtTZxFbq3F5R6lqzyVvYzg9tRBPY

(Make sure you expand video to play in full screen HD!)

Civ Video Series Ep 02 – Colonization HD Tour + Col Fan Games, Mods & Scenarios

Civilization Genre HD Video Series:
Welcome to the second episode in a huge video series years in the making where I show you how to play each classic Civilization genre game (including spinoffs like Colonization) in 1080p HD, while showing off some of their best scenarios and mods along with their interesting and sometimes very different console conversions, plus also trying to play as the Barbarians in each game too. Naturally this second big main episode is about Sid Meier’s Colonization! 🙂 I’ll also be looking at fan games and naturally at some point I’ll get to the more modern Civ games that don’t require any tricks to play in HD and will still tribute them too of course! In many cases there’s simply too much to cover in one main episode so I’ll also be making special extra bonus episodes to compliment the main episodes in the series, so stay tuned!

• Main Episode 01 – Civilization 1
• Main Episode 02 – Colonization (You are here!)
• Main Episode 03 – Master of Magic (Delayed)
• Main Episode 04 – Civilization 2 (Coming soon)
• Main Episode 05 – Civ2 Test of Time (Coming less soon)
• Main Episode 06 – Alpha Centauri (Coming less soon)
• Main Episode 07 – Civ Call to Power (Coming next year)
• Main Episode 08 – Call to Power 2 (Coming next year)
• Main Episode 09 – Civilization 3 (Coming next year)
• Main Episode 10 – Civilization 4 (Coming next decade)
• Main Episode 11 – Civ4 Colonization (Coming next decade)
• Main Episode 12 – Civilization 5 (Coming next century)
• Main Episode 13 – Civ Beyond Earth (Coming next century)
• Main Episode 14 – Civilization 6 (Coming next lifetime)
• Main Episode 15 – Old World (Coming next lifetime)
• Main Episode 16 – Humankind (Coming next lifetime)
• Misc Episodes – Civ Fan Games – FreeCiv, FreeCol, FreeMars & More (Coming very soon)

Main Episode 02 – Colonization HD Tour:
Main video on playing Col in HD with mods & scenarios:
Years in the making this is a huge video tour showcasing the classic Sid Meier’s Colonization in HD! This is the second main episode in a huge series showing people how you can play classic Civilization genre games in HD on modern systems using some of the best enhancement mods out there. I also take some time in this video (prob way too much sorry haha) to show Col fans what other cool options are out there these days such as similar games to Col, fan made Col games, some of the best Col mods for Civilization games, and finally I also show you our attempts to play as the normally unplayable Natives slot.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoAYn5LGq60&list=PLZqnaGtTZxFbq3F5R6lqzyVvYzg9tRBPY

(Make sure you expand video to play in full screen HD!)

All Photobucket image links failing at Blake’s Sanctum

Hey guys,

More lousy news concerning my website Blake’s Sanctum. I’ve previously reported how I accidentally broke all my Onedrive picture & download links on my website. Well I’ve since fixed all of them however Onedrive only hosted a fraction of my websites images and the hundreds of others were hosted on Photobucket.

The problem with this is that Photobucket have slowly been sliding into decline over the last 6 or 7 years with super slow loading times and unstable pages. Then they threw their ‘free hosting with advertising’ strategy in the trash and switched to a ‘force all free members to switch to a expensive paid model’ strategy and wondered why everyone left lol. As a result all old image hosting accounts including mine were disabled meaning nearly all images on Blake’s Sanctum went down. Even the poor people who elected to pay for a membership still had all their external links broken while fees went up and up. Check out their wikipedia page if you want to see just how much of a sh*tshow it’s all been. Now their address has changed (probably due to all the bad press lol) and I suspect it’s only a matter of time before they disappear for good. What a sad ending to a once great site that so many people used.

Anyway this was a HUGE blow to Blake’s Sanctum as I probably have several thousand images across the site hosted at Photobucket. Fortunately I’ve always kept my thumbnails hosted with the website files so from an outward appearance Blake’s Sanctum looks fine, it’s just went you click on those thumbnail pictures that the problems reveal themselves.

Civilization 2: Command & Conquer Mod – Dev Diaries 1-2

Regular visitors to my blog may have seen on my What Is Blake Playing Right NOW? page that I’ve been quite busy with Cilization 2 modding as part of the HUGE new WIP Civilization section and youtube series I’ve been working on for ages.

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After months working on a huge Heroes of Might & Magic 2 Civ2 scenario I decided to turn my attention over to one of my other favourite franchises for some more fun Civ2 scenarios, the Command & Conquer and Red Alert universe! I started coming up with some pretty crazy ideas for huge Red Alert 2 Siege of New York scenario where you’ll be battling it out in city streets between huge sky scrapers however despite learning a lot from working on the HoMM2 scenario I wasn’t quite game enough to start that just yet. I’d also been thinking about a dark and moody scenario set in the C&C Tiberium universe and noticed that a fellow named Wonx2150 had already made a scenario in that universe but just hadn’t really done any proper graphics for it so I decided to take the easier route and remaster his scenario first to build up more experience before taking on the big Red Alert 2 scenario.

I’ve created a ModDB page for this project with dev diaries covering stages of development. Figured I’d post them here too so here’s the first two! Stay tuned for dev diaries for the Red Alert 2 scenario here in the future too! EDIT: Red Alert 2 scenario dev diaries now posted HERE

Dev Diary 01 – New terrain & units for the Civilization 2 – Command & Conquer Scenario:
In this first dev diary I look at changing Civ2’s terrain and cities to look like C&C2 as well as importing some cool new units.
https://www.moddb.com/mods/civilization-2-command-conquer-scenario/news/new-terrain-units

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Dev Diary 02 – Finishing all terrain & units for the Civilization 2 – Command & Conquer Scenario:
In the second dev diary I ask for some fan input and finish off importing all the new C&C unit graphics.
https://www.moddb.com/mods/civilization-2-command-conquer-scenario/news/finishing-all-terrain-units

Blake’s Sanctum passes 60,000 visitors!

Blake’s Sanctum just hit the big 60,000 visitors mark less than a year after I posted about hitting the 50,000 mark, which shows that despite not much growth of content on the site the visitors keep coming to enjoy my tributes to retro games and fan projects so thanks everyone. 🙂

Also this blog is about to hit the 35,000 hits mark which considering it was about to hit 25,000 in my last post a year ago then that’s a good sign it’s also doing well as well and pushing around 10,000 visitors a year like the main site.

Just like I said in that last post around a year ago sadly my big new WIP Civilization section that was meant to be a 6mth project has gone on another year (meaning we’re at the 2.5 year mark now) and STILL shows no signs of being done anytime soon lol. Has really been bothering me lately as I really got in over my head with this section. There’s just TOO much content out there and TOO many mod projects I wanted to personally make myself. However I refuse to give up and let all that work go to waste so I shall keep at it! Hopefully the first of the videos in the series will star to appear on my Youtube Channel and I can finalise their respective web page tributes too.

Civilization 2: Heroes of Might & Magic 2 mod – Dev Diaries 4-6

Regular visitors to my blog may have seen on my What Is Blake Playing Right NOW? page that I’ve been quite busy with Civilization 2 modding as part of the HUGE new WIP Civilization section and youtube series I’ve been working on for ages.

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Because I’m a huge Heroes of Might & Magic fan the biggest project of them all is a HoMM2 total conversion mod and scenario for the great classic game Sid Meier’s Civilization II MGE created by Metropolis and me! Inspired by Tom2050’s amazing HoMM3 mod for Civ3 we hope to create the most HoMM2 like experience within the limitations of the old Civ2 engine.

PREVIOUSLY:
Dev Diaries 1-3 were posted HERE

UPDATES:
Dev Diaries 7-8 now posted HERE
Dev Diaries 9-10 now posted HERE

Dev Diary 04 – New Throne Room, Intro, Dip & Wonder Videos For The Civ2 Heroes Of Might & Magic 2 Mod:
HUGE fourth dev diary is up! This time we look at changing Civ2’s throne room with a HoMM2 castle jigsaw while completely replacing the title screen plus intro, diplomacy herald and wonder videos with cool HoMM2 content.
https://www.moddb.com/mods/civilization-2-heroes-of-might-and-magic-2-mod/news/new-throne-room-intro-dip-wonder-vids

Diplomacy Heralds:

Wonder Videos:

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Dev Diary 05 – Creating Victory/Death & City Backgrounds For The Civ2 Heroes Of Might & Magic 2 Mod:
In the fifth dev diary we look at adding new HoMM2 themed victory and death sequences plus custom city screen backgrounds.
https://www.moddb.com/mods/civilization-2-heroes-of-might-and-magic-2-mod/news/creating-victory-death-city-backgrounds

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Dev Diary 06 – Heroes, Units & City Buildings In The Civ2 Heroes Of Might & Magic 2 Mod:
In the sixth dev diary we answer fan demands to show units while also showing off all city buildings and some small touch-ups to the city sky view.
https://www.moddb.com/mods/civilization-2-heroes-of-might-and-magic-2-mod/news/heroes-units-city-buildings