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Message: 4552

Author: andrewbroad

Date: 23/10/2004

Subject: Re: Impossible rooms in Manic Person, etc

 

Alexandra wrote:

[3] "Paranoia (Don't touch the floor)": I say that MM/JSW room-
titles shouldn't contain playing tips, except in extenuating JSW
circumstances to warn the player of an infinite-death scenario or
a one-way exit.

"Don't touch the floor" isn't /just/ a playing tip though. When I
was a kid I played a game (at my friends house) where the floor
became 'deadly' and we used books lying around the house,
furniture, etc, as 'platforms' (we both loved platform games) and
would jump around having adventures about the house (amazing how
large a limited space can seem as a child). Needless to say, his
mother was most displeased when she saw us jumping on her books!

Ah. That's cool then.

you can only use each colour attribute once, twice if you count
inverting.

I don't. Inverting a colour-attribute means mapping FBPPPIII (the
bits representing FLASH, BRIGHT, PAPER and INK) to FBIIIPPP, which
is another, different colour-attribute.

Only being able to use each colour-attribute once (for block-types)
can be a frustrating restriction at times, especially when the Block-
Graphics Bug has not been fixed.

http://www.geocities.com/andrewbroad/spectrum/willy/mm_format.htmlBBBBBB
#block_graphics_bug

Sometimes I do use cyan to symbolize death deliberately.

I wonder why? ;-)

[17] "The Dungeon of Erotic Punishment": This room too is
impossible, because there's no way to collect the bottom item.

There is.

Aargh! You're perfectly right, and I found the way to do it in five
seconds when I went to check. For the third time in my MM/JSW beta-
testing career stretching back to 1998, I just had a total brain-
freeze over not seeing the way to do something.

I'm pretty much infallible when it comes to declaring things
impossible in MM/JSW games, but I'm only human after all! :-O

It does comfort me, though, to realise that the problem of deciding
whether a MM/JSW room is impossible is NP-complete! ;-) (i.e. there
is no known polynomial-time algorithm for deciding possibility).

Alex + Ra

You'd have to spell it "Alex & Ra" to make me pronounce
it "Alexandra"! ;-)

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Dr. Andrew Broad
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