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Message: 3198
Author: igorekmak
Date: 23/12/2002
Subject: Re: The ZX Digest article (My games)
I`m sorry for being a bit late.. But I really want to help you
about telling something interesting about my hacks of JSW.
I`ve began my JSW-creating career not a long ago. My first game
was created only in March of this year.
1) FROSYA THE CAT
It is a JSW128K game, based on John Elliott`s engine. It was my
first game and I hope it gave a new standart of making JSW remakes.
It wasn`t ideal but it contained a few new features. It had big
sprites (that were created from up to six small 2x2 sprites),
absolutely new hero of the game (My cat, called Frosya), all new
sprites (well, maybe I used only a few old sprites - they were a
sprite of a Willy), and rather colorful and realistic atmosphere. I
made that game for two months. I`ve began to create it at the 8th of
January, 2002 and finished on 3rd of March.
There is a doc. with my game so you can read a story of it if you
download it. But it had some "bad" words, so I`ll try to tell it anew.
As I already said, the main hero is my cat (photo is added to the
archive). The game begins when our neighbour dog had kidnapped her
kitten. As you can already guess, the only way to get back her kitten
it is to collect all 255 items and to get to the attic where there
will be a kitten. Among the baddies of the game you can meet me, my
mommy, nice looking shop-assistant, ugly underground mole-cricket,
king of the snakes, mermaid king and so on. The game divided into a
few zones. They are:
1) My house with a small garden near it
2) Underground, conquered by the army of mole-crickets
3) Hell with Maria as a devil
4) Small pond with mermaids
5) Heaven with angels and Willy
6) Alien UFO
7) The past
8) Willy`s party, when everybody is drunk and Willy doesn`t know
that tomorrow his housekeeper Maria won`t let him go to bed. Maria
was making love in his own bedroom, by the way that time.
Mostly every zone had a boss, I mean such a very big sprite.
1) Large Dizzy`s mother (I mean a cuckoo)
2) Big momma of the mole-crickets
3) The devil and his henchmen Maria
4) Mermaid king
5) Jesus
6) Nice looking red-eyed alien
7) Nessie
8) Maybe no big sprite.
This game is a little difficult to finish, as it has 136 rooms,
but try it. It is funny.
2) FROSYA LITE
The same game with a new starting screen and with deleted
guardians. Now it became more easier and very possible to finish it
now. I`ve released it in the last days of the November.
3) JET SET WILLY 5: ZX HEROES
I already said a lot about it, but nobody had seen it right now.
No screenshots, no demo versions. Only words that says that it will
be something new, that nobody had seen...
The release date is the last day of the 2002. I won`t tell a lot
words about it, I hope you will download it and play it as fast as
you could and write everything yourself, OK?
Story is so far:
Somewhere, sometimes, very far
From the place where you are,
Maria and Willy don`t sleep
In the Spectrum`s memory deep,
They try to visit all ZX games
To bring those peaceful days...
(By I. Makovsky)
In a few words, in ZX world, where all zx games lived in peace
and while our computer was turned off, these game went to each other
and had parties and funny talks. Dizzy visited Rockford from
BoulderDash, BrianBloodAxe visited TechnicianTed and everything was
very good. But suddenly, King Spectrum agreed to buy a new and modern
computer. It was 10000Mhz, 100000Mb Ram and had a superior video
card. Once he bought it, he was very happy. "That`s just what I was
waiting for!", he cried. There could be million pixels of different
colours in one square! And he began playing new games. HE PLAYS "DOOM
3: THE GENERATION OF EVIL" the whole days. (BTW. Try it - it is
superior 3d shooter by Id software, but be sure that you computer has
more than 1500 Mhz)He forgot about other games and his kingdom at
all! And without careful eye, game world began collapsing. All games
began fight with each other, deleting each other and so on. Another
day and there will be no ZX games more. If any humal will try to play
any of his games he will just get a message 1:0 OK! And all!
"We have to do it now, until it won`t be late", - said Willy to
Maria. And our company agreed to go the King`s palace to have a
little walk there. They have to collect all flashing objects in 38
rooms and to bring them to the king. While he will get away from his
computer, Willy had to run to the computer energy divice to turn it
off. Once and forever.
Game will have 38 rooms, formally 37 but one of them is the
secret passage, and those lucky, who will try to find it, will gain a
possability to see something amazing!
It will be a usual 128K JSW engine game.
It will contain from two parts. They will be the same, but the main
difference is the main hero. One game is where the main hero is Willy
and the another one where the main hero is Maria. Everything else
will be the same.
4) JSW: Half-Life
Maybe I won`t ever release it, but If I will then it will be a
JSW 128K game where you are - the main hero of a well-known 3D game
of PC, "Half-Life" - Doctor-scientist Freeman. His works for a secret
physical-anomaly project. He works at a huge underground complex,
with more then 200 halls and labs. While he was working with some
unstable elements, he opened a gate with the unknown universe and
different agressive creatures appeared on that base. That base was
full of all slimed, ugly, creatures that tried to kill absolutely
everybody on that base. Without help, creatures would get out of that
base and will try to conquer all the other world. Willy has to get
all the needed documents from the base and to escape it as soon as
possible. Then the USA army will be given a chance to blow up that
base with all aliens inside.
5) Frosya the cat 2: The opposing force
The second part of my first game is still under work. The main
hero is the neighbour dog and you play against Frosya. This story is
the previoust part of my first game. The story begins when one old
lady rescues poor puppet from the pond. Guiding puppet you have to go
to my home. There you will see me. I will be very happy, because I
always wanted to have a dog and will invite you to live in our
family. The only problem is my cat. She stands in the dog`s way and
don`t want the puppet to be the another part of our family, unless...
the puppet will prove his kindness bringing my cat something to eat.
Another game with 136 rooms and some new sprites. All the old sprites
were gained from my first game. Uzor will visit:
1) Our home and the garden near it
2) Burning beatbogs (underground)
3) Town park
4) The town Taldom
5) Undertown pipe system
6) The future (The industrial city where everybody plays JSW)
7) Underwater alien base
8) Unknown place between unknown places, where the puppet can
be thrown into while travelling through time.
6) JET SET WILLY 3D. (PC-based)
The second name "JET SET WILLY: THAT`S ENOUGH!"
Willy has tired. Again Maria, again collecting flashing
objects.. again avoiding guardians, again going to toilet... ENOUGH!
STOP! I CAN`T STAND NO MORE! Get a gun and go and KILL everybody who
moves, no matter that you see a woman, MARIA and her clones, or those
monks from the chapel, Andres from the kitchen or that penkinife from
the upper landing! Everybody must be destroyed.
Engine from the well known classic game "DOOM". All the
graphics was drawn by me and inserted in the game. The only problem
why I didn`t released it is maps. I was tired to make those giant 3D
worlds, though it is very interesting.
It will be a 3D shooter. With high requirements:
PII 300Mhz,
64Mb RAM,
16MB VIDEO.
Sound card
And WINDOWS 9x, Me, 2000.
You will ask: why such high reaquirements? That`s why I will use
modified engine of DooM that will make possible to use video
accelerations, CD Music, leaps and so on, including playing so
called "Deathmatches", "Cooperate games" and so on using net.
7) JET SET WILLY 6: THROUGH THE SCREEN
I didn`t thought a lot about it, but it is among my plans. The main
idea will be - Willy will get to our world. He will be very small and
will simply be able to run on our tables, or even be able to get to
the garden and appear in the world of the high grass, where a small
mosquite will be as large as elephant.
That`s all. The engine will be 128K game, or maybe it will be 512K
game if John Elliott or somebody else will make it.
Whooo! I think that`s enough...
Thanks for reading.
If you haven`t read it all, then try to read it all. It has some
interesting moments!
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