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Message: 5175

Author: andrewbroad

Date: 27/11/2005

Subject: Re: Flash Manic Miner / Andrew's site updated

 

Matt wrote:

Hi everyone,

Im not sure if its been done before or not, but I just recently
posted Manic Miner written in Flash on my website.

http://www.darnkitty.com/manic/

Its the first of two or three games from the 80s and 90s that im
re-writing in flash. I was hoping you guys might have a go or two
and give me your opinion, tell me if Im missing anything or if it
runs too slow. Theres no sound... but im working on it :)

Theres a high score feature as well. Its just got the standard
levels at the moment but im developing a level editor, and Im sure
you guys already have heaps of custom levels out there :) It
doesnt run as fast as I would like it to on some older computers
though :(

Can someone here tell me, who wrote the Javascript version of
Manic Miner that I have seen on the web? I know its moved from
site to site over the last year or so, and I would like to give
the person who wrote it credit on my website because I used one or
two algorithms from it.

This is really cool to see. I especially like the high-score table,
even though I have so far failed to reach #1 or get past "The
Warehouse"! :-o It's faster than the Spectrum version, with coarser
collision-detection for guardians.

Carl Woffenden wrote the JavaScript version of Manic Miner. The
feedback I gave him - much of which applies to Flash MM - can be
found at:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/manicminerandjetsetwilly/message/3735
(2003 version)

and:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/manicminerandjetsetwilly/message/2890
(2002 version)

In 2004, Carl rewrote the game-mechanics to be more faithful to the
original MM (based on a disassembly of Spectrum MM):
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/manicminerandjetsetwilly/message/3982

Unfortunately the /faithful/ version is no longer online AFAIK.

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

P.S. I have updated my website, including my List of MM/JSW Games.

 

 

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