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Message: 2909

Author: andrewbroad

Date: 04/08/2002

Subject: Re: Adban De Corcy / Goodnite Luddite

 

adban_de_corcy wrote:

>
> This is my farewell; many things have passed since I became a member
> of this club. I have met many interesting people, and have learnt
> many things from you. But my days of JSW design have ended; my
> unfinished games lay gathering dust in my hard drive. This hobby has
> lost its appeal; maybe I will some day finish them, maybe I won't.
> But don't hold your breath...

I'm sorry to hear that, especially from one of my favourite JSW
authors. We all have times when inspiration sags. But never say "never
again"! :-)

> I'm quite proud of my Gothic trilogy: Willy's Afterlife, A Bulgarian
> Requiem, and Madam Blavskja's Carnival Macabre. I hope you have
> enjoyed playing them as much as I enjoyed creating them.

I like these games a lot - what really sets them apart is that they
are so-oo atmospheric! :-)

I've got all three typed into my real Spectrum now, and I completed
Willy's Afterlife with a finishing time of 9:23 am. I haven't
completed any JSW games that were released after Utility Cubicles (nor
/any/ JSW128 games) because it's so hard to find a couple of hours to
sit down and play through a JSW game! :-(

BTW, in terms of typing JSW games into my real Spectrum I'm now about
two-thirds of the way through Frosya the Cat, which is looking great
too! :-)

> If it's ok with you, I will remain a member of the club.

Of course!

> I wish to be informed of your latest achievements and projects,
> and I'm dying to play Andrew's new game, "Goodnitte Luddite".

I'm flattered that you singled out my game out of all the future
projects! Goodnite Luddite now has 44 rooms written / 20 to go (and
I'm planning to write another tonight), and I wrote three new
diary-entries yesterday! I guess I'm about halfway through the diary -
and it's already as long as the We Pretty diary! :-)

I'm very pleased with the way Goodnite Luddite is going - it's my best
game so far. It's very atmospheric, it has some visually attractive
rooms, the connectivity is just the way I like it (with several
Promised Lands!), and it liberally exploits quirky features in almost
every room.

It's not my most difficult game in terms of every room being rock-hard
(as Ma jolie is), but it does require great awareness of quirky
features! Often, while playing other people's games, I spot quirky
loopholes, and think "I'd better not go that way, because it's
obviously not what the author intended." In Goodnite Luddite, such
loopholes are deliberately exploited! ;-)

--
Andrew Broad
http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~broada/
http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~broada/spectrum/
http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~broada/spectrum/willy/

 

 

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