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Message: 4058
Author: andrewbroad
Date: 12/04/2004
Subject: Announce: MM/JSW box-set _Party Willy_
Today I release Part 1 of my new Jet Set Willy game, Party Willy -
so called because it's in several parts, most notably two 48K JSW
parts (Part 2 will be released on 23rd April), which I will combine
to produce a single JSW128 game (hopefully by 23rd April).
Party Willy is released as a box-set consisting of the following:
* Party Willy itself: the brand new game from Broadsoft, featuring
reinterpretations of the original Jet Set Willy rooms (and a few
from other sources), revamped versions of 27 old rooms that I wrote
in 1993, and many brand new rooms. I feel I have captured much of
the atmosphere of the original JSW, whilst maintaining the Broadsoft
standards of technical innovation. It is long overdue to return to
the art and craft of quirky features, that's what this game is
about. School's in session.
* The old Jet Set Willy: Manic Miner conversion which I wrote in
1993: the 20 MM caverns, plus 27 rooms of my own, which have been
revamped and included in Party Willy itself.
* The new Jet Set Willy: Manic Miner: a semi-automatic conversion of
MM to JSW, now with just the 20 MM caverns plus "Master Bedroom",
but with guardians, proper items, and other gubbins.
* Manic Miner: Jet Set Willy: a three-volume hand-conversion of JSW
to MM which I wrote between 1993 and 1996, and of which I have now
edited other aspects (most notably the Room 19 pictures).
* reniM cinaM: a laterally-inverted version of MM, generated by a
program called MirrorMM which will be released in the future as part
of Version 1.3 of my SPECSAISIE toolkit. I've even worked out how to
edit the switch-behaviour in the Kong-Beast rooms, and mirror the
solar beam!
* ylliW teS teJ: a laterally-inverted version of JSW, generated by a
program called MirrorJSW which will be released in the future as
part of Version 1.3 of my SPECSAISIE toolkit.
Party Willy is available today for downloading from my website.
--
Dr. Andrew Broad
http://www.geocities.com/andrewbroad/
http://www.geocities.com/andrewbroad/spectrum/
http://www.geocities.com/andrewbroad/spectrum/willy/
http://www.geocities.com/andrewbroad/spectrum/download/
P.S. Party Willy itself hasn't changed since the third beta-version.
I've been working on the new JSW:MM (title-screen tune altered since
the version Kari leaked to this Group), and the non-room aspects of
MM:JSW, MirrorMM and MirrorJSW.
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