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Message: 3440

Author: Philip Bee

Date: 11/03/2003

Subject: Re: Maria vs. Some Bastards / where's woody / MM

 

Andrew Broad wrote:

> > minertech,
> >
> > It's a very good game indeed;
>
> I've had a fairly brief play with MvSB on MacSpectacle, and my jaw
> dropped at the technical innovations! I haven't looked at the code
> yet, but presumably the room-format must have been extended beyond
> the usual 256 bytes/room, as there seem to be more than four
> elementary block-types a room!

I haven't looked into that, but there are some excellent new
features.

How long until someone incorporates the crumbling floor routine into
their own JSW game? :-)

Will we get to see an annotated disassembly of Vidar's game?
Vidar,
John? Are you reading? :-)

> I was particularly impressed with the crumbling floors, the multi-
> coloured guardians, and the special effects - patch-vectors à la
> Geoff Mode? Visually it's as impressive as Manic Miner Mythologies:
> Eugene - Lord of the Bathroom.

If not more so!

> It was quite a culture-shock to play, as it is so much out of the
> ordinary for JSW. I have a trained eye for all the loopholes in
> MM/JSW, but this one has so many special effects that I often felt
> puzzled - most notably in a room called "Bub n Bob" IIRR. It's

going

> to take a lot of working out once I get it typed into my real
> Spectrum! :-)

"Every piece a puzzle and every name a clue"
(Prince, "Welcome 2 The Dawn" from The Truth).

> MvSB is the most technically groundbreaking JSW-rewrite I have ever
> seen, and I am in awe of Vidar's incredible talent.

I totally agree; having played it a lot more, some of the effects are
astounding! Congratulations Vidar on your achievement!

> > it's as good as the bonus is bad! ;-)
>
> Although the bonus game is billed as "crap", it could still give a
> lot of 48K JSW games a run for their money! Visually and

technically

> it's very impressive - although much of this is residue from MvSB

and

> MMM:E-LOTB. I don't think I've yet seen all it has to offer,

however -

> and this is certainly true of MvSB too, of course.

I was joking when I wrote that (so sue me if I go too fast). No one
had mentioned the bonus game so I thought that I would allude to it
and see the result.

I have since finished the bonus game and there are some excellent
rooms like the Frogger and Pac Man tributes. Indeed it is better
than many 48K JSW games.

The erm... unexpected ending sequence is... interesting!

It's a very easy and short game (my completion time was 8:38 am
IIRC), but well worth a play through!

I'm going to wait for Maria vs. to be revised again before I play
it with a view to completing it.

Regards,

Phil

 

 

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