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Message: 4034

Author: andrewbroad

Date: 28/03/2004

Subject: Re: Party Willy: second beta-version - Certificate of Completability

 

andrewbroad wrote:

I've just uploaded the second beta-version of Party Willy
(including Part 2) to the Files section
(Broadsoft/party_willy.zip). Please do not pass it on outside
this Group.

As well as updating README.TXT and the room-documentation, I've
made the following changes to Part 1:
Part 1 is still open to negotiation until 12th April, and Part 2
until 23rd April - their respective official release-dates.

Before 12th April, I plan to:
1. write (a program to generate) the new JSW:MM, which will have
guardians, items in their proper places, better connectivity and
only 20 rooms;
2. perhaps make some `miner' improvements to MM:JSW, MirrorMM and
MirrorJSW.

I need to do a full playtest of Part 2 - although I have
thoroughly tested each room individually, I cannot yet issue a
certificate of completability.

I did this yesterday (Sunday), completing Part 2 with a toilet-time
of 16:15 (using infinite lives and snapshots - IMO the maximum
cheats under which one can consider oneself to have completed a JSW
game).

Thus both parts each took me just over four JSW-hours to complete. I
would say that Part 2 is qualitatively harder than Part 1, although
it's much easier to explore because it's more branching whereas Part
1 is very linear.

The downsides of the branching map are (a) that it's harder to keep
track of what you have completed - lots of choice-points to maintain
on your mental stack - and (b) that a number of challenges can be
avoided altogether, depending on the route you take.

PWp2 is the most difficult of my JSW games to Maria-complete after
you have item-completed it; JSW:LOTR is the most difficult to bed-
complete after you have Maria-completed it, while Goodnite Luddite
and PWp1 are the hardest to toilet-complete once you have bed-
completed them.

And of course I plan to put the JSW128 version of Party Willy
together by 23rd April, although whether I will have time to write
the 128K tunes by then is doubtful.

Another thing I plan to do is to take some screenshots of Part 2 for
the Photos section.

--
Dr. Andrew Broad
http://www.geocities.com/andrewbroad/
http://www.geocities.com/andrewbroad/spectrum/
http://www.geocities.com/andrewbroad/spectrum/download/

http://www.geocities.com/andrewbroad/spectrum/download/party_willy.ht
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