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Message: 3277
Author: soa1000
Date: 16/01/2003
Subject: Re: JSW:FTB / The Beatles / Brian Eno
--- In manicminerandjetsetwilly@yahoogroups.com, andrewbroad
> soa1000 wrote:
""It will indeed be a long time. I'm due to start typing Soul Miner
into my real Spectrum in March, but JSW:FTB is probably off the end
of 2003! :-(""
Ouch. Still, for the time being I shall wait to see what you make of
Soul Miner :)
""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).""
JSW:FTB should take a fair while then. Something like 189 rooms I
think
""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!""
Again: Ouch
""That's very strange, because it does indicate that you are the
owner of that folder! Have you tried deleting and recreating the
folder? Do you need me to delete it for you?""
I did try deleting it and recreating it, and got the same reaction...
I just tried again and it's still having none of it
I don't suppose I could put upon you to put the photo in there could
I? Being that you're theoretically the only person who can upload to
it. If you can, I'll reupload JSW:FTB without the photo to reduce the
size of the zipfile
""I've just had a look through the HTML file (without reading all the
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.""
Thanks
""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.""
Excellent. Glass Onion is one of my favourite songs from the White
Album, alongside Dear Prudence (which had a room in Willy vs. the
Beatles, but it was so dire as to be unsalvageable for this game)
""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! :-
)""
I'll look forward to it then
""I'm also pleased to see some references to Brian Eno in the room-
titles.""
Yeah, I'm fairly fond of Eno's work, although to date I've only got
Here Come The Warm Jets, My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts and Ambient 1:
Music For Airports. But then I also like musical references, and
there's at least a dozen different artists in the game
""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! :-)""
Heh. Funnily enough I only named the room in question on the spur of
the moment after the relevant line was quoted in a newspaper TV review
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