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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:

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)" Cornhill 2. Quote credited to: "Dr. Andrew Broad"

"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".

You have >my< permission to use these words, although I should point
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!!!"

"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!"

These games aren't my specialist subject, I must admit, but didn't
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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