Hi. I'm just some guy who happened to remember this game existed. I saw ads for it back on the Nick website, but forgot about it until now. I am not a fan of this game, but I have an interest in dead MMOs. I just wanna ask what the development history of this game. Like, how frequent updates were, were there any content droughts and if so, did those contribute to the death of this game? I appreciate any answers. And my condolences to this community for getting their revival shut down.

Kinda starting up a thread to see if it goes anywhere: premise? reverse engineering caching.

(probably just going to be a dump of links and stuff but feel free to pitch in)

AssetBundle compression

You can use WWW.LoadFromCacheOrDownload which automatically takes care of saving your AssetBundles to disk. Be aware that on the Webplayer you are limited to 50MB in total (shared between all webplayers). You can buy a separate caching license for your game if you require more space.

If your AssetBundles are stored in the StreamingAssets folder as Uncompressed AssetBundles, you can use AssetBundle.CreateFromFile to reference the AssetBundle on disk. If the AssetBundles in the StreamingAssets folder are compressed, you will need to use WWW.LoadFromCacheOrDownload to create an uncompressed copy of the AssetBundle in cache.

Caching: This is done using the WWW.LoadFromCacheOrDownload call. The AssetBundles are cached to Unity’s Cache folder in the local storage device. The WebPlayer shared cache allows up to 50 MB of cached AssetBundles. PC/Mac Standalone applications and iOS/Android applications have a limit of 4 GB. WebPlayer applications that make use of a dedicated cache are limited to the number of bytes specified in the caching license agreement. Please refer to the scripting documentation for other platforms.

When you access the .assetBundle property, the downloaded data is extracted and the AssetBundle object is created. At this point, you are ready to load the objects contained in the bundle. The second parameter passed to LoadFromCacheOrDownload specifies which version of the AssetBundle to download. If the AssetBundle doesn’t exist in the cache or has a version lower than requested, LoadFromCacheOrDownload will download the AssetBundle. Otherwise the AssetBundle will be loaded from cache.

- Extracts taken from Unity WIKI

On January 22nd, 2021, the head admin of Monkey Quest Reborn received an email from the parent company of Monkey Quest's producer, Nickelodeon. The email requested that the Monkey Quest Reborn team cease operation immediately due to unauthorized use of assets, trademark infringement, and copyright infringement.

After validating the legitimacy of the email, Necromatical reached out to the concerned company in an attempt to acquire a license or some form of permission to continue working on the game. This process took nearly an entire month, and in that time the community was not aware of the business going on in the background and development proceeded as usual. However, some community members reported evidence at the time that their was a disruption in the project around this time: the Monkey Quest Reborn website was offline for an unknown extended period of time (at least a week) as well as some of its other social media pages.

Ultimately, on February 17th, 2021, the fate of the project was sealed when one of the admins received word that their request for a license was denied and that they would need to close indefinitely.

Within the day, Alex the Wizard, Community Manager for the project, made the closure announcement on the project's public Discord server, followed up with a QnA live stream on Twitch to answer the community's questions. Shortly after, Necromatical, as Managing Director of the project's company, provided more insight into the situation as well as a portion of the take-down letter received to serve as proof for the community. It was here that the project closure date was announced.

Two days later, on February 19th, 2021 at 6 PM EST, Monkey Quest Reborn closed indefinitely. The project's website and social media were removed and the existing Discord server transitioned into a general Monkey Quest server.

As of now, the developers seem to have disbanded and gone their separate ways, no statements were made about what was next for them.

Having all this happened, it is my unpopular (likely) opinion that Monkey Quest should be left to rest now. It served as a great virtual and memorable experience at the time of its vitality, however, over the years following its original closure, its nostalgic constitution has been heavily tainted. I'm not sure about anyone else, but nowadays anytime I think of Monkey Quest,one of its discontinued remake attempts pops into mind. This consequently has made me fail to recall much, if any, actual play time from the original game. It makes me wonder what I am actually doing here.

Alas, I am sorry for the rant, I'm just a member of the community that has sat back to watch it all play out for a long time, while also clearing some stuff up and hoping to get search engines to index some of this for when the project is searched.

Cheers.

I didnt remember this game because i dont know much of this game,however i played it.

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