High Tail Hall

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[[Image:HighTailHall.png|right|thumb|350px|Initial scene of the bar at High Tail Hall]]
'''High Tail Hall''' (also known as '''HTH''') is an adult [[Wikipedia:Adobe_Flash|flash]] animation game created by the animation studio [[Pendragon Entertainment]]. In it, the player's [[character]] (who is depicted as a male), could explore the setting of "High Tail Hall", which was basically a modern pub/bar/dance club. While exploring the place, a player could talk to and/or seduce, or be seduced, by the characters in the hall. The current version is 1.7.

Other active elements on this Flash game include an interactive news bulletin board, tip jar, a suggestion box, the storage room (with clickable poster of '''The Velvet Claw''',) and several accessible upstairs (all empty, except for one hosting a [[NPC]] [[avian]] character, and another one now occupied by Jade in version 1.7.)

==The beginning of the project==
High Tail Hall began its existence as a discussion on the Yiffstar messageboards. [[Crowchild]], the creator of Pendragon Entertainment, announced he would be making a flash akin to [[The Tail Underground]], seeing as updates to it were sporadic at best. This announct included a statement that people who wished to be in the animation need only ask. Some time after the announcement, the finished product, version 1.5, was released.

==Characters==

The "available" characters include:
*'''Maxwell Moore''', a black male [[tomcat]] (text only.)
*'''Boris''', an old [[Russian]] [[male crow]] (text only.)
*NPC avian character (non interactive)
*'''Luca Shoal''', an [[androgynous]] male [[fox]] (full interaction. Owned by his player, [[Luca Shoal]]. Pendragon Entertainment holds the rights to the remaining characters.)
*'''Tanya Winters''', a female [[Zebra]]. (full interaction.)
*'''Zoe Mallari''', a [[female]] [[cheetah]]. (full interaction.)

High Tail Hall has a bar with an outside balcony on the main floor, private rooms on the second floor, a dance floor and bar downstairs off the ground floor.

==High Tail Hall 1.7==

Version 1.7 offered the opportunity to add your own charcter/[[fursona]] to the game engine for a fee. Unfortunately, a fire broke out in the Pendragon Entertainment studio, destroying the computer with all the commissions on it, killing the studio's cat, and causing thousands of dollars worth of damage to the building. All Pendragon Entertainment projects were suspended, but full refunds were given to everyone who commissioned a character. The improvements that were being added to version 1.7 were:

*A redesigned Tanya Winters.
*The ability to venture outside the pub, where one could find a non-working [[StarGate]], and a hidden spot with an orcish character and satyr.
*'''Jade Felicia Lanely''', a [[female]] blue [[fox]] (incomplete full interaction. Right-clicking "play" on the character shows some of the intended interaction, before the sequence abruptly ends.)

==High Tail Hall 2.0==
[[Image:Rio_dvd_character_model_test_105.jpg|right|thumb|128px|Rio, a featured character from HTH2]]
More recently, after real life issues have been taken care of, the author has started working on '''High Tail Hall 2.0'''. It is intended to be comprised of a new engine with established and new characters, as well as an improved music score. The plans for voices and voice acting has been put on hold, but may be integrated post-release. Unused features or sneak-peeks of planned features might be released before the complete version, such as a demo.

The project is still a free endeavor, with any payments related to it being a tip jar located in-game.

Recently, a [http://drakkan.net/OpenHTH/YaBB.pl?num=1168967036 demo] of High Tail Hall 2.0 has surfaced. The author has been confirmed to be [[Crowchild]].

==High Tail Hall: Twilight Cavern==

A fan created spinoff of the original High Tail Hall is on the works, being designed by an artist by the name [[Jack Salem]], which will consist of established and new characters and locations. It has been announced that there will be approximately 12 female characters, and 6 different places to explore, as well as an in-depth plot.{{fact}}

As far as male characters, only one has been announced, and recently it was also announced that this version of the game is focused around heterosexual relations only. There will be a music score, mostly jazz tracks, written by Jack himself. This project was announced in 2006, with the only releases so far being images of characters and as of Christmas Day 2006, a Beta Preview with animation.{{fact}}

Upon the creator of Twilight Cavern hearing that the original High Tail Hall has come back into creation, the Twilight Cavern project has been announced to be a separate endeavor. Jack has stated that Twilight Cavern will be made, but it will no longer have any ties to High Tail Hall, save for any appearing special characters, such as [[Luca Shoal]].{{fact}}

Jack has stated that he is indeed working on the project to the message-board [[Yiffstar]], where the project was first announced. No news beyond that has been released publicly.{{fact}}

A Beta preview of Twilight Cavern was released some time ago on [http://www.furry-furry.com/bbs/viewtopic.php?t=16396 Furry-2-Furry] forums, then on Yiffstar forums, it is basically a technology demo, it has an short introduction, then features a white female rabbit and the protagonist (the player, male), to show the style of animation that will be present in future versions, it also contains some preliminary sound effects.

==OpenHTH==
'''OpenHTH''' is an [[Wikipedia:open source|open source]] (as open as flash files can be) project based around High Tail Hall 1.7, the goal is to vastly improve the game, by enhancing existing content, but also adding to it.

The current version of OpenHTH is 0.0.2 which so far is only dialogue enhancements, replacing incorrect spelling and grammar, and typographical mistakes in the original HTH 1.7, some ambient music, and a few background animation enhancements.

Users are welcome to download the latest version and help add or enhance it, or download the base version (which is just the editable flash files of HTH 1.7) and try their hand at doing their own mod.
====Phases====
*'''1 - Introduction to editing stage''': which is to replace all the dialogue, while pertaining to some sort of persistent back story, to give it more of an atmospheric and immersive feel to it (as far as Flash goes anyway), part of the first phase is also to extend the length of the dialogue, and have somewhat more of an interactive conversation, to set it up as more of a game for later stages, then finally after all that is done fix any animation errors, that may get accidentally introduced from the editing.

*'''2 - Technical and creative theory stage''': which is to review the dialogue, plan where the game is headed, write up some design docs for planned expanded areas and characters, write the main and back story, figure out the character's persona and write the dialogue around that (creative writing class finally pays off :P).

*'''3 - Technical backend stage''': which is to create a backend engine for the game from scratch, which will contain your basic RPG elements, the journal, the inventory, etc.

*'''4 - Content creation stage''': which is of course, is to create new art and animation using what we planned out in the second phase to dictate what exactly we need to do, as well as sound effects, and creating a few musical scores.

*'''5 - Putting it together stage''': which is to link the content to the backend, define what its supposed to do, whats supposed to happen with each conversation path etc, put in the right dialogue for the right character, get the journal to update on certain events, etc etc.

*'''6 -Testing stage''': which is to obviously test what we have, see what works as intended, and to refine the game, correcting and fixing any errors, mistakes, bugs, etc.

Then finally it's finished, or is it? No not really, that 6 phase process can be repeated as many times, and with each lot of 6 phases can add as little or as much content as we please at the time.

Users can and are encouraged to contribute to this process, and critique upon whatever we have at any given point in time on the OpenHTH forums.

==Controversy==

Early versions of High Tail Hall prior to version 1.1 included an uncredited clip of [[Wikipedia:Depeche Mode|Depeche Mode]]'s song "Personal Jesus." This clip was removed from 1.2 on.

Some people believe that High Tail Hall was inspired by [[The Tail Underground]], and vice versa. In fact, both [[Ian R. Soulfox]] and Pendragon Entertainment created their animations independently, with High Tail Hall being made after Tail Underground. Ian has mentioned that he doesn't mind the existence of HTH, and that he enjoys its existence.

==External links==
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* [http://web.archive.org/web/20050401060209/http://www.hightailhall.net/ High Tail Hall] official web page at the [[wikipedia:Internet Archive|Wayback Machine]] internet archive
* [http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/182224 High Tail Hall 1.5], an active mirror file at [[wikipedia:Newgrounds|Newgrounds]], despite the "File Deleted" notice
* [http://hightailhall.awardspace.info High Tail Hall 1.7], the latest copy of HTH before the fire that destroyed Pendragon Entertainment. (often down for bandwidth reasons)
** [http://www.drakkan.net/hth.php OpenHTH Project] OpenHTH is a project based on High Tail Hall 1.7, aiming at improving, enhancing, and finally expanding the game, OpenHTH 0.0.2 is the latest release, so far it features improved/changed dialogue, ambient music, and some background animation enhancements, download includes editable *.fla files (Editable in Flash Professional 8).

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