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Message: 2962
Author: dan_richardson_uk
Date: 13/09/2002
Subject: Feedback
Ah, I can post again, horaay! .. ahem
First off, thanks for the feedback...
"igor has a point with the amount of graphics. it might be good if
there could be more sprites. "
There's plenty of room for more sprites, it's just being arsed to do
them all :P
If anyone wants to add their own graphics, just send them to me and
they will be included in the next update.
"hopefully there'll be new block typs such as springboards
and 'phase' platforms (that appear and disappear)."
I'm up for new ideas for future updates.. so explain more about the
phase platforms :)
"when you fall through a crumbling floor and land on a platform
below,
you sometimes 'lock' and you can't move in the direction you were
going until you nudge the other way."
I found that one too. It seems to only happen after walking into a
wall before the floor collapses. I'll look into it
"also, this version seems a bit jerkyer than the last one. i'll do a
proper test with no internet connections or other programs running,
but in particular the editor was quite jerky. i never noticed this
before in the other JSW game you made."
This *might* have something to do with the large WAV files it's
loading into memory, they were a lot bigger than in the older
version. Anyway, I'm gonna change the music to MODs if I can find any
decent ones and replace them, that should save memory and download
time ;)
"there's also another thing i noticed: when approaching the end of a
conveyor, if you press jump right at the end of it, you jump *up*
instead of up and the direction of the conveyor."
The conveyors are surprisingly difficult to replecate (in my
opinion). They gennerally work like in the original, but there are
one or two bugs like that, but they only seem to occur at the edges
of a conveyor. I'll see if i can sort it out.
"i noticed you
incorporated the 'walk through blocks at head height when going left'
bug... hehe..."
I had to have some sort of original JSW Speccy bug since it was the
only one I could easily replicate :)
"well, i've made 5 rooms in the editor. a simple game set in an alien
planet called phobos (which is the physical manifestation of willy's
fear of cliched platform games.. hehe). i'll upload it when i have a
bit more done. it's only a quick bit of fun."
Sounds intreging :) (i think i spelt that wrong)
"oh and count me in on the mass collaboration! are we going to change
the graphics as well as the levels?"
cool, like i said earlier, send me youre sprites, or use DIV to
change them :)
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