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Message: 5089

Author: andrewbroad

Date: 18/11/2005

Subject: Re: Strangel SE

 

Alexandra wrote:

Strangel SE will be released sometime in the next 7 days. I decided
agaist a hard/easy version, I have just taken the really
anoying/hard parts out, but all of the interesting challenges are
still there.
There are also graphical modifications, some changes to the layout
here and there, and I may add a few extra screens - possibly to
link more parts of the game together and make it easier to explore
(more paths). Not sure...

This is good to read. I've always regarded strangel as something
special, with its We-Prettyish combination of an ultrasurreal
atmosphere and loads of quirky features. And the SE has been near
the top of Future Games for ages.

I hope it won't be too long before Role Reversal and Manic Person
are gamma-released! :-)

There is also going to be a little experimental companion game
thrown in with Strangel SE to make a box set, and there are title
screen graphics by Erix1!

I like the idea of including minor experiments in a gamma-release,
rather than putting them out as standalone titbits. That was my
motivation for making Party Willy a box-set - to tie up various
loose ends that had not previously been gamma-released. Not to
mention the `Easter egg' in MM: Neighbours - Allana Truman...

Since the SE removes as well as adds things, I hope to see the
original strangel in the box-set too, so that the SE may supersede
the original release.

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

P.S. My list of Group-messages to reply to got significantly longer
today...

 

 

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