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Message: 5036
Author: dm_boozefreek
Date: 13/11/2005
Subject: Things again
First up I'd like to say once again I actually added to a few of my
projects today. I added to my Maria on Tour title screen which has
actually atarted to depress me now as I JUST CAN'T GET IT RIGHT. But
I refuse to post the game with block letters just saying MARIA ON
TOUR and flashing 3 different colours. Also to Igor I don't hit enter
a lot whilst writing these messages cos' I like to have them in one
big lump LOL (Thanks Sendy for the quip about artisticness, I
actually chuckled to myself then agreed haha). Anyway I'll have Maria
on Tour here before the 19th that's my birthday and I'll either be
getting hammered or working, so no posting on that day. Who knows I
may get hammered and go into work anyway the bosses are idiots and
probably won't even notice hahahahahaha (I hope non of them are
members of this group otherwise I'm fucked LOL). Anyway to Mikko the
whole idea of moving JSW into PC format is fair enough but it's
already been done many many times, and I personally don't think it
improves on it entirely. In terms of colur sprites and effects it
will, but not everyone in this group is a competant programmer (I for
one failed a C++ unit miserably, partially cos' the lecturer knew his
stuff but no idea how to pass it on HELLO JIM WEBBER!!!!!!). Also the
reason this group writes/edits/hacks this game in ZX format is more
to do with love for the game in it's original form, nothing can take
that away from those who played this game at a young age way back
when all games had next no colours and were all 2D. I'm not being
nasty here in fact far from it, I started a PC version myself but
never finished it. I have nothing against PC conversions of JSW in
fact they make a nice change, but if they're made for the sake of
being visually pleasing we fall into the catergory of graphics not
gameplay. Which I can say the PATHETIC version of MM for the GBA
falls into in my eyes (sorry to anyone who liked it), but the lack of
new sprites and rooms sickened me. The new rooms were easy and
somewhat uninspired in my opinion. Sorry if it hurts anybodies
feelings but I was unimpressed by it simple as. I feel almost guilty
now that's the first time I've really criticised a MM/JSW game in
such a negative fashion. I'll probably get some back whan I unleash
Maria on Tour (ha ha) for the time it's taken me it's no technical
masterpiece. But even if you all think it's not worth wiping your bum
on, I don't care it was experimental anyway. I think I said this
months and months and months ago. Oh well I just tried to use one of
every feature and add a new idea here and there.
Drunk on Sunday
DrUnKeN mAsTeR!!!
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