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Message: 3487

Author: andrewbroad

Date: 27/03/2003

Subject: Re: strangel SE ready for release very soon

 

i_eat_teh_babiez wrote:

some rooms are revamped
some colour schemes are altered
some really nasty parts are taken out (such as the fake floor in
'sky lark' which can sometimes infinideath you)
it's generally more pretty (the colour schemes are still
fairly 'sweet and sour', but my taste has changed slightly and
improved i hope :P)
comes in 2 flavours: expert and normal

in the normal mode i'm removing certain 'evil' static nasties and
enemies, to make it easier for n00bs ;P

So will strangel SE (expert) replace the original strangel, or will
the original strangel and strangel SE be parallel products?

For example, I regard Adam Britton's The Continuing Adventures SE as a
parallel product to the original TCA (with two entries on my List of
MM/JSW Games) simply because the SE deleted a room. If the SE had not
deleted a room, I would have considered it a replacement (as with The
Time Hole SE).

Similarly, I consider Frosya the Cat and Frosya Lite Version to be
parallel products because the Lite Version is (from what I've read,
not having played it yet) both `more than' and `less than' the
original. If the bug-fixes had also been applied to the hard version,
and the hard and easy versions packaged together in the same zip file,
then I would have considered Frosya the Cat replaced, and would have
had just one entry for Frosya on my List of MM/JSW Games.

There are a number of dilemmata to compiling an exhaustive and
ontologically sound list of MM/JSW Games! ;-) It can also be difficult
to decide which category to put certain releases in (e.g. I added ZX81
Manic Miner to "Others" today, after considering putting it in "Manic
Miner" or "MM Tidbits").

--
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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