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Message: 5202

Author: dm_boozefreek

Date: 02/12/2005

Subject: A few things

 

Once again I'd like to say thank you for all the nice things people
keep saying to me, I'm really not used to this much niceness. I just
can't believe my games are bringing this much enjoyment it's a huge
boost for my ego I must admit. Thank you everybody when I'm old and
crumbly (like an MM floorboard) I can die a happy man knowing that
what todays (supposed) real gamers frown upon as crap, was added to
by me. A REAL gamer who knows that Sonic and Alex Kidd before him
wouldn't have existed, that Donkey Kong and Mario wouldn't have
existed. That Rayman and Crash Bandicoot wouldn't have existed if it
wasn't for Willy. So all these so called progressive gamers can stick
that in their pipes and smoke it cos' Willy will outlive any
fashonable game character til' the year 3005. That's what I say.

Anyway Igor wrote:

> Drunken Master, sometimes I think that the only thing you do in
> life - is creating JSW games. Is it really so?

When I was unemployed about 2-3 years ago absolutely, that's how I
finished "The Down and Out Trilogy" in the space of a year with
another game in-between. But now I devote most of my spare time when
I'm not working to it. Since my job is nightshift I hardly see any of
my friends now so JSW it is.

Sendy Wrote:

>The JSW64 Collab has had a bit of work done on it by myself. I have
>changed DM's 2 rooms around a bit since they didn't quite fit my
>vision of "Willy Goes Down The Bog" and to be honest since it was
>based on a dream I've had, the intro rooms not fitting my 'vision'
>would just perpetually bug me to the point where I couldn't work on
>it. Apologies to DM but hopefully you'll like what I did to your
>rooms!

Have you actually posted it? I looked but all I saw was my early
attempts?

Sendy also wrote:

>I have been seeing some of the most amazing graphics recently, so I
>want to say thanks to Igor and the Master of Inebriation via Alcohol
>AKA Drunken Master, for providing some amazing eye candy. It has
>inspired me to try and spend longer on the drawing/artwork side of my
>room design!

It literally just takes patience :)

>I have to admit for some reason I thought Bizzare was a JSW64 game
>until I opened it up in the editor. I didn't really care that many of
>the rooms were just filler... Even though it has 80 or so rooms I
>think you get more from the game if you look at it as a minigame -
>like an example in storytelling. The bit with the Mole shop reminds
>me
>of Maria/Bastards which is a good thing, and it gives me a lot of
>ideas for adding extra narration and maybe even characters in the
>game
>which could give you playing hints or whatever after performing a
>task. Talk about RPG influences!

>As for UMM all I can say is I don't think I've ever been as anxiously
>awating a JSW project ever as I have with this! I simply can't wait
>and the screenshots are, well, sexy... Did I say that?

I'm not sure I deserve as much praise as this though since by my own
admition my rooms that look good are usually fillers or cut-scenes,
the ones that look good and are more playable are usually easy. The
actual authors who really deserve all the credit for true playable
eye candy are Erix 1 and Igor Makovsky. Both there games present a
challenge as well as something to look at, wheras mine on the whole
are usually one or the other maybe, actually I'm not sure maybe I
have done a few hard rooms in the past that look nice LOL

So yeah, you guys are my inspiration at the moment, especially when it
comes to graphics!

jet Visy wrote:

Bizarre is by far one of the best "theme setter" games I've played.
The "intro walk" reminds me of a c64-demo with Jet Set Willy walking
drunk from a pub, a possible source of inspiration to you?

Thanks for the kind words, I'd heard of the pub demo but never seen
it. I was a spectrum purist in my younger days and only finally
warmed to any Commodore computers in about the last 10 years. I ws
never C64 friendly in my young days because all the kids I knew who
owned them only ever went on about how much better than the spectrum
they were. The intro sadly was not inspired by the C64 demo. I don't
mean to disappoint..........sorry :) It is quite funny though how
silly arguments like that get out of hand, and it's only years later
you see the pros and cons of both machines. Instead of obviously
siding with your own LOL


Anyway I think I've rambled on long enough

Cheers

DrUnKeN mAsTeR!!!

 

 

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