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Message: 4616

Author: darkman_1971_2004

Date: 05/12/2004

Subject: Re: Jon Foster's Top 30 Overhyped Games (in Retrogamer)

 

In manicminerandjetsetwilly@yahoogroups.com, andrewbroad wrote:

His criticisms of JSW (the infinite-death scenarios and the bugs
that made JSW1 impossible to complete) apply to the original JSW,
but I work hard to eliminate occasions of infinite death from my own JSW games, and bugs that make JSW games impossible to complete.

But the JSW game-engine is beyond reproach (apart from the
/deliberate/ infinite-death scenario when you fall too far off the
bottom of a screen, when it could just as easily have been coded to
kill you once without changing to the room below).

--
Dr. Andrew Broad

Well, the infinite-death scenarios are annoying - but I always
accepted it as part of the game. Maybe it could have been fixed, but
maybe Matthew meant it to be like that! (Aside: I bet designing
screens to avoid infinate-death scenarios makes you work much harder!)

As for the bugs fixed by the official POKEs, do any of them really
make the game impossible or just bloody hard? Matt claims
that 'Banyan Tree' can be done in the unPOKEd version, & since you
don't need all the objects, missing 2 (in 'First Landing'
& 'Conservatory Roof') shouldn't make a difference. The Attic bug is
more serious, & may make the game impossible, but I've even heard
people say you can get back by a complicated route.

In short, I think the criticism was a little overdone - the only
saving grace being the lack of force behind them.

btw: have you seen the 1998 crap games competition entry 'That
Pythonesque Foot' ?

 

 

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