Resource centre for ZX Spectrum games
      using Manic Miner and Jet Set Willy game engines

 

 

	Previous message		Next message
	Previous in thread

 

 

Message: 4069

Author: andrewbroad

Date: 14/04/2004

Subject: Re: Time for Jet-Set Editing, at last! :))

 

jet_visy wrote:

I got my grades for my second level of education, and it looks
good!

The scale in Finnish "ylioppilastutkinto" (loosely translated as
university student examination, but actually you try to get to a
university or a third level of education school with this) is
weakest first:

I = Improbatur (Fail)
A = Approbatur
B = Lubenter Approbatur
C = Cum Laude Approbatur
M = Manga Cum Laude Approbatur
E = Eximia Cum Laude Approbatur
L = Laudatur

What strange grades you have in Finland! In England it goes A
(best), B, C, D, E, F, G, N (near miss), U (unclassified), while
university degrees go First Class (best), Upper Second Class, Lower
Second Class, Third Class, Pass, Fail (although not for postgraduate
degrees such as MPhil and PhD, which you either get at the end or
you don't).

Now, FINALLY, I've got three months of nearly-free time(I'm going
to the mandatory Finnish army service for eight months in July),
so I'm going to continue Willy in Finland(actually, Andrew, I've
changed the name, so put it on the list as unnamed).

Also, Andrew, please remove all references(if possible) to my ye
olde geocities site( http://www.geocities.com/jet_visy) . I'm
working on a better site, so point my links to visy@k...

Okay, I've just updated my List of MM/JSW Games. Sorry for the
delayed response - I was busy preparing for the release of Party
Willy.

What about the demo of _The Epitaph of the Manic Mining Robot_?
http://www.geocities.com/jet_visy/manic.html
http://www.geocities.com/jet_visy/epidemo.zip

For now, I've replaced all links to
http://www.geocities.com/jet_visy/ except the above two.

Please let me know the URL of your new site as soon as it's
appropriate for me to link to it.

I played Party Willy for about four hours yesterday, and I'm at 53
objects or so.

In Part 1 or Part 2?

Very lovely game. IMHO I think this is your best JSW game yet,
because it resembles the quality of the original most. The
quirky features you(and I) so much love makes it one of the best
spectrum games I've played. I'm waiting for the final version with
a special trembling feeling :)

Thank you! I still consider the Kari Krišníková trilogy (We Pretty,
Goodnite Luddite, and Afrikaan in 2005) to be my masterpiece, but I
would expect Party Willy to be more popular because it is more
accessible and is set in the world of Willy. The Kari Krišníková
games should go down as "cult" classics, whereas Party Willy is more
mainstream.

My Willy game will include many tribute rooms to various JSW
creators, including at least Andrew, Igor, sendy, Gawp, soa,
Filsoft and many others. So, Andrew, is it okay to use the Kari
sprite in your tribute room?

Yes. As it says in the Copyright Notice in each of my README.TXTs, I
give general permission for people to reuse my graphics provided I'm
credited:
I don't mind you reusing some of the rooms, graphics, &c. in your
own games, or converting the game to another computer (e.g. for JSW-
PC). However, the accompanying documentation must state that the
reused material is the copyright of Broadsoft - failure to do so may
be construed as plagiarism. I would like the documentation to be
quite specific about this, e.g. "Graphic X in Room Y was taken from
We Pretty", or whatever.

<

--
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/willy/list.html

 

 

	Previous message	Back to the Yahoo! Archive home page	Next message
	Previous in thread