Resource centre for ZX Spectrum games
using Manic Miner and Jet Set Willy game engines
Archive of the
Manic Miner & Jet Set Willy Yahoo! Group
messages
|
|
|
|
|
Message: 3275
Author: andrewbroad
Date: 16/01/2003
Subject: Re: JSW:FTB / The Beatles / Brian Eno
soa1000 wrote:
>That's a cool-looking room! :-)
> Andrew: For your benefit there's a new screenshot in the zipfile,
> showing a room done in tribute to yrself,
> because I know it'll be a fair few months (?) before you can evenIt will indeed be a long time. I'm due to start typing Soul Miner into
> play the game, let alone struggle down into the underworld.
my real Spectrum in March, but JSW:FTB is probably off the end of
2003! :-(
It usually takes me a month to type in a 48K MM/JSW game, and between
one and three months to type in a JSW128 game (depending on how much
has been edited). This was a comfortable rate before the Great Willy
Games Explosion, but I'm going to have to start typing in two or three
kilobyte-blocks a day if I'm going to narrow the gap!
This month I'm busy finishing off my PhD thesis, but after January I
should have all the free time in the world! :-)
> I wanted to put it in photos, but Yahoo is being perverseThat's very strange, because it does indicate that you are the owner
> and insists the JSWFTB folder *I* made isn't mine to add to.
of that folder! Have you tried deleting and recreating the folder? Do
you need me to delete it for you?
> For everyone else, there's the game, its over-lengthyI've just had a look through the HTML file (without reading all the
> documentation, the screenshot and the funny picture of Willy
> being chased by the Beatles in JSWFTB.zip in the usual location.
room-descriptions in details - just the titles). It looks like it's
going to (from my perspective) be a really cool game, with some very
interesting inspirations behind the rooms.
As you say, I wrote a room called "A Hole In The Ocean" for Manic
Miner 4, even though I'm not a Beatles fan as such. But I did go
through a bit of a Beatles phase in the late 1980s, and I have
recently rekindled my interest by listening to my old pop-tapes from
that era! :-)
My room "A Hole In The Ocean" was indeed inspired by "Glass Onion",
which is one of my favourite Beatles songs - full of self-references.
Goodnite Luddite's "EGGMAN & WALRUS" was inspired by "I Am The
Walrus", and I'm planning to write my own room-interpretations of
"Strawberry Fields Forever" and "The Fool On The Hill", possibly for
Party Willy. I hope to write them before I see your rooms, to avoid
any preconceived ideas about what they should look like as JSW rooms! :-)
My other favourite Beatles songs are "A Day In The Life" (which has a
line in common with David Bowie's "Young Americans") and "Lucy in the
Sky with Diamonds" - there's a tribute of sorts in Geoff Eddy's Willy
Takes a Trip ("Light Screen Designer").
I'm also pleased to see some references to Brian Eno in the
room-titles. I'm a demi-fan of Brian Eno, and besides the four David
Bowie albums on which he collaborated (Low, "Heroes", Lodger, and
1.OUTSIDE), I also have Here Come The Warm Jets, Taking Tiger Mountain
(By Strategy), Another Green World, Before And After Science, My Life
In The Bush Of Ghosts, and Drawn From Life.
I'm planning to interpret some Brian Eno song-titles for JSW Iva, e.g.
"Sky Saw" and "St. Elmo's Fire". In fact "MEA CULPA" in Goodnite
Luddite is a Brian Eno song-title (I always associated that song with
"Suit Up! Shooting Stars" from JSW In Space, hence the long ramp), and
"The Jezebel Spirit" is referenced in the Goodnite Luddite diary.
I'm also pleased to see some JSW-references to The Simpsons - not only
in JSW:FTB, but also in Bizarre (see Photos). I should start mining
The Simpsons for Broadsoft room-ideas! :-)
I take it "TB" in JSW:FTB stands for The Beatles? I can't print what I
imagine the `F' stands for! ;-)
--
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/
|
|
|