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Message: 5452
Author: Igor Makovsky
Date: 24/01/2006
Subject: One new screenshot from UMM before the release "THE MENAGERIE"
Work in progress...
I agreed to put a screenshot of "the menagerie" and to say a few
words about this room, that Willy will meet in 3\4 way to the final
escape from the collapsing mine.
After defeating the huge werebear mutant in the "Endorian Forest",
Willy moves up using a rusty ramp together with Esmer. Poor Esmer,
her neck appeared to fell better after that accident in the ore
refinery... But, oh-my god what Willy notices here? Conveyour that
was used before to crash heavy materials is now full of meat! What a
bastard can turn this conveyour that brings hooks with miners in the
trashery mashine and throws them there? Then Willy notices a huge
monitor, shows us Eugene. He is afraid to meet Willy and speaks to
him only using monitors. "Join them" - recommends he. After a few
seconds this sentence changes into angry laughter "Ha Ha!". Suddenly
Esmer shouted: "Stop this, Willy!". Willy have to hurry. More time he
will spent - more miners will be shreddered into pieces with two
circular saws. Willy have to pass three gears, while standing on a
moving conveyour. Then he climbs the wall using its small ledges and
appeares next to the box with TNT. He agrees to burn a fire next to
it and run from this room. Angry penguin solder wants to stop Willy,
but a nice gap saves Willy. Thanks, this penguin is armed only with a
stick. How Willy tired of hiding from these armed-to-teeth pinguins
with pistols, mashine guns and all other stuff... Right after he
escapes this screen to the left, Willy, together with Esmer appears
in a forgotten wet tunnel. "To the 16-th cavern" - he reads a huge
table on the wall. And at that moment TNT explodes in the menagerie
and destroys the killing machine once and forever, a flow of lava
covers lowerest floor in the room with Willy and Esmer and increases
slowly...
What about technical side of the room: There are all new sprites,
that Willy won't meet in any other room, except Esmer, Gears, TNT
box, fire and Pinguin security. Enguene will be animated in the other
way in all the other monitors and he will tell Willy absolutely
another words, trying to make him scare.
Meat on the conveyour are 4-animated sprites that will work as a
conveyour. Willy will move right, while standing on them. Every
miner, that is brought to the room will fall in the killing machine
right when the hook will be in the right position. This is made due
to the perfect sinchronisation of a "droplete" (single-column skylab)
and a moving hooks with miner victims. This room introduces more then
24 new sprites (only seen in this room). (including animation,
ofcourse)
Willy can move through a lot of obstacles, even if they are sprites )
For example, through the window in the killing machine. Only gears,
pinguin, fire and falling miners can kill Willy.
Have a look at the room next to my other screenshots of UMM.
...and wait for UMM where all the rooms will bring more surprises and
won't make you feel boring!...
IgoR
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