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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:
>So will strangel SE (expert) replace the original strangel, or will
> 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
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/
http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~broada/spectrum/willy/list.html
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