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Message: 4549
Author: Alexandra
Date: 23/10/2004
Subject: Other hopes for JSW64
Just some ideas I had, any feedback + or - would be interesting...
1 - Soft teleport. Redraws the room but does not interfere with the
guardians. In other words, it goes to the new room but the old
guardians continue running. This would be good for making switches
that manipulate the room terrain in an arbitrary (SP?) way.
2 - Walk-on-able guardians. For making horizontal lifts. Also, would
work well with vertical lifts. You'd have to jump with it when it
went up (like the cloud lift in screen 2 of Monty on the Run), but I
still think it would be very cool.
3 - A block that you can fall any height onto. Or alternatively,
giving the Trampoline block this property. This would be a good
alternative to breaking long falls with a rope (or using the fall any
height thingy).
4 - John will probably want to shoot me, but I came up with
another 'bright idea' for the unused room flags. It's
the /alternative/ superjump poke. The one where you can't stop moving
until you bang your head/exit. The reason I'd enjoy having access to
this on a per-room basis is that it's not buggy in the way that the
regular Superjump is, and would be great for making 'zero gravity'
space themed areas or whatever (in conjunction with the fall any
height poke).
5 - It would be great to make an 'ice' block type which would be like
the sticky conveyor, but you don't get 'stuck' to it if you fall on
it from the top. Sounds complicated though.
Oh I also really need a patch that creates an opening and closing
floor like in Wanted: Monty and Odd Job Eddie. I figure it would be
relatively simple? It's just drawing pixels onto the screen and
updating the 8x8 attribute when it's done 8 of them, right?
Would some people who are doing JSW64 projects post some screenshots
please? I want to see what other people are doing...
I still haven't got very far learning machine code. I managed to get
a few of Geoff's most simplest patches to run in my game, but I
haven't made any breakthroughs. I have a feeling my brain just ain't
cut out for programming. I may have to hire someone *L*.
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