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Message: 5298
Author: andrewbroad
Date: 13/12/2005
Subject: Re: 7 Days in the Sun / Categories for List of MM/JSW Games
dm_boozefreek wrote:
>But I don't plan to live to the age of 6024! ;-)
> It's official whilst digging through my drawers and piles of crap
> (in a pathetic attempt to bring order to the clutter cupboard that
> is my room) I've found notes from "7 Days in the Sun" so all 7 day
> are once again a strong possibilty. I'm not entirely sure how this
> boxset would be catergorised on Andrews website (in the year 8000
> when I finish it) because it is official it will be of mixed
> format (one of the games may even be of the MM nature).
If a box-set contains more than one whole new game, and the games
belong to separate categories (MM, 48K JSW, JSW128, JSW64), then the
box-set shall have one entry in each applicable category.
Taking the Party Willy box-set as an example:
* the two 48K parts constitute one whole new game in the intention
of the author, therefore Party Willy has one entry in Released 48K
JSW Games;
* the JSW128 version, which combines the two parts, is a variant of
the same game, but it's a whole new JSW128 game in its own right,
therefore Released JSW128 Games has an entry for Party Willy 128;
* the other games in the box-set (some of which are MM) are only
Titbits, therefore Party Willy has no entry in Released 48K MM Games.
Likewise, MM:Hobbit and JSW:LOTR, while released as a single
product, have separate entries in Released 48K MM Games and Released
48K JSW Games.
Thus the number of entries, summed over all the Released Games
sublists, is greater than the number of products.
I sometimes wonder whether I should merge all Released Games into
one flat list (in addition to the existing categories) for the
following advantages:
* it encodes the order in which products of different categories
were released within a year, which is the order in which I plan to
play them;
* the number of entries = the number of products.
Why I might not do this:
* redundant duplication;
* what to do about Other Games of MM/JSW Interest, where the entries
are of increasingly tenuous relevance to MM/JSW? I have no plans to
play these games systematically until I have completed all the MM,
JSW, JSW128 and JSW64 games!
--
Dr. Andrew Broad
http://www.geocities.com/andrewbroad/
http://www.geocities.com/andrewbroad/spectrum/
http://www.geocities.com/andrewbroad/spectrum/willy/
http://www.geocities.com/andrewbroad/spectrum/willy/list.html
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