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Message: 3449

Author: andrewbroad

Date: 12/03/2003

Subject: Manic Miner (Re: matt in 'off' conveyor scandal!)

 

i_eat_teh_babiez wrote:

i was playing original manic miner last night when i should have
been sleeping, and i noticed the 'off' conveyor in 'amoebatron's
revenge'. it IS an off conveyor, right?

No - it's a conveyor-animation without conveyor-blocks (cf. Manic
Miner 4).

i also came to the conclusion that 'the warehouse' is one of the
easiest screens in the game. i don't know why so many people say
it's difficult - i'd say it's as hard as 'central cavern'. really.

It's a prime example of a room that is very difficult until you have
mastered it - then it's fairly easy.

finally i deduced that the hardest screen (for me at least) is
solar power generator. the top left key is positioned so that you
have to make 2 laps, plus there are 2 or 3 of those 'pixel perfect'
'2 up and 5 across' jumps, which are right in the way of the lazer
AND guardians. result? death by lack of air almost every time :>>

You wait till you see what Ma jolie does to that room - the hardest
MM/JSW room ever! It took me almost two hours to complete that one
room when I was play-testing, and almost cost me my sanity! :->

--
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/

 

 

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