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Message: 159
Author: sendy_baby
Date: 27/05/2000
Subject: Re: sendyjsw and my JSW Construction Kit
"I agree with what you say - it's not very
original, but I did see some nice screens, and it does have
an interesting atmosphere about it!
:-)"
thanks :) i will be working harder and longer on my next
attempt (months instead of days :) and i'm gonna try and
redefine all (many) of the baddies and 8x8's. i recycled
alot of the old 8x8's in sendyjsw purely for nostalgia
value ;) honest!
"I didn't think much of the
screenshots (in Photos), to be honest"
well perhaps i
should change them and put different ones up. thanks for
pointing that out.
"Let's just say that I have
noticed some 'quirky features' in these games that are
clearly unintentional..."
in addition to this
there are also some dodgy room connections in willy's
afterlife and willy comes home which cause you to lose your
lives inslantly - from memory, some ropes in afterlife
that lead to room 0 (the tabernacle), slap bang on top
of a guardian. there are also some locations (the
brass tower or something) where it seems impossible to
get down once you go up. i will come up with the
details next when i can.
"What's it called, by the
way?"
i'm planning on calling it 'willy to the rescue' and
i have an equally cheesy plot to go with it :). i'm
planning on doing a 'proper' release soon, just fixed up
the last two rooms but i may need help with some
extra hacking.
"My Jet Set Willy Construction
Kit (JSW CK), with which I wrote We Pretty and
JSW:LOTR, allows you (well, just me at the moment, since I
haven't released it yet ;-) ) to edit guardians
graphically in the context of a room. In a given room, you
select a particular guardian INSTANCE to edit, or
alternatively, when you're editing a particular guardian CLASS,
you can focus on any instance of that class in any
room - it looks them up for you."
that sounds
brilliant! i'd love to try out your editor. in addition to
the extra features i've seen in your games, i've also
noticed that in willy the hacker, some baddies move in
one direction only, reappearing back at the beginning
and looping like that. does anyone know how this can
be achieved?
looking forward to that editor!
my email addy is: sendy@... , i'll let
you know how i get on with it :)
sendy
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