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Message: 181
Author: sj_hill
Date: 01/06/2000
Subject: Re: Yet another JSW redesign.
Thanks for your comments. :-)
sendy
said:
> on the bad side, i thought the first few rooms
really let it down
Yeah, these were the first
ones I designed and as a result are the
worst!
> i'd re-design a few of the rooms, to keep the
theme more coherent
My design technique was to
replace individual rooms in the mansion so that the game
was always still playable. This is largely why the
'topology' is identical to JSW, and why the game contains
reworkings of original screens (e.g. Banyan tree) mixed with
novel screens.
> and be sure to check out
'my' game!
> oh and what is it about pyramids
and platform games huh?
Your game was the
inspiration for me posting about mine, as I then knew that
people were still interested in 'non-hacked' games. I
really can't explain the synchronisity of the pyramid
structures - it was a shock - it could be that Willy has a
strange connection to ancient Egypt (or, alternatively,
pyramids are made of blocks which are easy to do in
JSW!).
adban_de_corcy said:
> You should correct some rooms,
for instance, "The Master Bedroom" is absolutely out
of place now,
It may be worth working more on
the design and releasing a 'beta' version to try to
squeeze a consistent game out of it.
> Have you
played already "Willy's Afterlife"?
Yep, it's
excellent, but actually I have been mostly playing the
ancient 'Willy's New Hat'; so I have a lot of catching up
to do with regard to Willy games!
Stuart.
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