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Message: 5311
Author: andrewbroad
Date: 15/12/2005
Subject: Re: Daniel's request to Sendy, Andrew and DrUnKeN mAsTeR!!!
Daniel wrote:
>Cornhill
> I am preparing the text file to be released with "Jet Set Willy:
> Mind Control", and in it I would like to expand the section of my
> favourite quotes. I would like to include quotations by Sendy,
> Andrew and DrUnKeN mAsTeR!!!, which I have taken from your texts
> published recently in the Club. I had to edit them slightly, and
> so I would like to ask the three of you to confirm that it is OK
> to quote your words, and to authorise the wording used below or
> send me a corrected version:
>
>
> 1. Quote credited to: "Sendy (Alex Corhnill)"
> 2. Quote credited to: "Dr. Andrew Broad"You have >my< permission to use these words, although I should point
>
> "Manic Miner and Jet Set Willy have exquisite game-mechanics.
> There's an elegant simplicity to the controls (left, right and
> jump). You know exactly how far you can walk to the edge of a
> platform without falling off, and the pixel-based collision-
> detection for guardians means you get to weave your way through
> them at close range.
>
> The ability to edit is what keeps the MM/JSW scene moving
> forwards. Because each room has its own block-graphics and 32x16
> character-squares, the possibilities for new rooms are limited
> only by our imaginations.
>
> What makes these games particularly attractive to me is that there
> are many quirks in the game-engines, such as the way that if you
> jump through an isolated wall-block at the correct angle, you go
> slap through the floor below! I love discovering these quirky
> features, finding unintended loopholes in games, and deliberately
> exploiting them in my own games".
out that I wrote them for a book to be published in 2006 (see
Message 4929).
I gave them permission to use these words under the following
condition: "The copyright of the article will not restrict me from
using my own words in any way." I therefore presume that it will not
restrict you from using them either.
Also, I do believe it's customary to present multi-paragraph quotes
as follows...
"First paragraph.
"Second paragraph.
"Final paragraph."
...with . before " (unless you added the . yourself in order
to finish the sentence).
I myself often present multi-paragraph quotes as follows, though
it's just my personal style:
>>>First paragraph.
Second paragraph.
Final paragraph.
<<<
> 3. Quote credited to: "DrUnKeN mAsTeR!!!"These games aren't my specialist subject, I must admit, but didn't
>
> "A REAL gamer knows that Sonic and Alex Kidd before him wouldn't
> have existed, that Donkey Kong and Mario wouldn't have existed if
> it wasn't for Willy. 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 fashionable game character til' the year 3005. That's
> what I say!"
Manic Miner reference Donkey Kong in "Miner Willy meets the Kong
Beast" and "Return of the Alien Kong Beast"?
Donkey Kong for the Spectrum was released in 1986, but I'm pretty
sure arcade games of that exact genre existed before Manic Miner.
--
Dr. Andrew Broad
http://www.geocities.com/andrewbroad/
http://www.geocities.com/andrewbroad/spectrum/
http://www.geocities.com/andrewbroad/spectrum/willy/
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