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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.html\
#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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