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Message: 4722

Author: andrewbroad

Date: 24/03/2005

Subject: Re: Jet Set Willy - The 2005 Megamix

 

Daniel wrote:

The inspiration for the game came from the information on Andrew
Broad's website about a couple of unfinished games whose authors
have no apparent interest in finishing them, of single rooms
scattered in various enhanced versions of the original Jet Set
Willy, and of alternative graphics which I liked a lot. According
to the information given by Andrew, the authors of this material
did not mind it being reused and/or developed, as long as they
were given proper credit. I had a strong feeling that these fine
rooms and graphics should find their place in a finished,
compleatable game so that they could be enjoyed by JSW fans while
playing 'for real'. And so I decided to develop the unfinished
projects, put together the individual rooms scattered here and
there, introduce the alternative graphics I particularly liked and
thus create a new, consistent game. What a roaringly good game-idea! :-) It features 156 rooms in total,

...

- 12 rooms from the Dragon 32 version of Jet Set Willy, converted
back to the Spectrum format by John Elliott;

But these rooms require the JSW64 game-engine, which has a maximum
of 128 rooms (Variants V and W) or 64 rooms (Variants X, Y, Z and [).

2 rooms designed by John Elliott;

Which ones? JSW128 has two CGA rooms and "Reach for the skies".
JSW64 has "Night has fallen here" and "The Clock Tower" triptych.
_JSW2 - Super Pre-School Edition_ has "Shouldn't this be the Attic?".

- 2 rooms from JSW Editor MkII by Softricks;
- 1 room designed by Dave Nichols;

Party Willy has these rooms too ("The Moat", "The Vault" and "April
Showers"), as well as the rooms from Paul Rhodes's JetSet Editor
("The Space Station" and "" - which also appeared, slightly
modified, in Richard Hallas's _Jet-Set Willy in Space_).

The game requires the player to take advantage of some of the
quirky features of the game engine – that is inspired by and in
some cases based on Andrew Broad's games.

Excellent! :-)

--
Dr. Andrew Broad
http://www.geocities.com/andrewbroad/
http://www.geocities.com/andrewbroad/spectrum/
http://www.geocities.com/andrewbroad/spectrum/willy/
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