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Message: 5480

Author: dm_boozefreek

Date: 09/02/2006

Subject: Replies and other stuff

 

Firstly I would very much like to thank John Elliot for the super
speedy response to my mutiple solars question....nice one! Another
quick question you mentioned that you should have made solars a guard
instead of a room feature, and it was something to take into account.
Now just out of interest will this be a feature of a JSWED close to
release or will it take you a little while to implement the code
effectively (if at all)?

Igor wrote:

>When you mentioned about "You-Robot", I remembered your promising to
>make a game about Bender from Futurama. As in most of your games, he
>used to stole something =) Will this game ever be released?

I have quite a complex spectrum folder on my computer now, a sub
folder of it is basically my JSW remakes. I recently created a folder
called unfinished for games I've started and either aren't going to
finish or no longer have an idea of format, and stuck it in there. I
sifted my JSW 48k, 128k, and 64 folders and put the few undecided
games in it. Futurama: Benders Cheez it game! is undecided in format
but still in my mind exists as a JSW, and I will get round to it one
day for sure. Also yes Bender will be stealing things, after all he
is a bit of a kleptomaniac.

>Oh my, what a depressive quadralogy! May there be anything more
>positive? =) A good idea is a new idea. That's why I don't like to
>make anything upon what is already made. I suppose, that all new
>projects must be something absolutely new. What do you think?

>I G O R

It's not really depressive let me break it down for you so you have
a rough idea of the situation.

Part 1 - Willy: The Man Who Sold the World

The story is depressing, but I won't divulge any of it until it's
finished. The rooms themselves take an ironic and comical twist on the
future, the rooms themselves are not depressive. In fact some of them
from my point of view so far are quite funny.

Part 2 - The Overfiend

Maybe a little depressing, this game deals with Willy Juniors
witnessing of the destruction of the entire world as we know it.

Part 3 - Willy Jnr: The Boy Who Destroyed the World

Rebirth of a new world, with Willy jnr maybe feeling he was
slightly responsible for the destruction of the old one hahahaha.

Part 4 - You-Robot!

Only the 4th part to make things awkward JSW 64 is new territory
JSW-wise, so I thought since I'd trilogied the other 2 formats. I'd
add this as a forth part to make a 4 part series as adversed to 3 as
it shares ideas and very slight references to the 3 games before its
stories. Plus it's a final part sequel that partially plays like a
prequel, and should defy a few conventions hopefully.

Finally since these games are new ideas I will be releasing them as
they are finished (much like The Down and Out Trilogy....had to get it
in again I can't help it). Unfortunately if I finish "You-Robot!"
before part 2 and 3 are out you may have to wait for it. But the way
things are going at the min "You-Robot may be the first finished as
I've been devoting a lot of time to it. However I've almost been at it
constantly for about 3 weeks and I've only just started the 6th room
yesterday.

The Dark Quadrology is definitely going ahead I shifted all the the
folders in the JSW 64 folder that were corresponding parts into a Dark
Quadrology folder. For tidyness and to free up some space, I still
have a couple of JSW 64 games that I haven't mentioned here.

Also to Igor..........Just how is UMM doing? I'm sure it was supposed
to be appearing sometime soon. The suspense is killing me I so
desperately want to play this game now. Plus using an existing idea
isn't really my thing either but taking on something that has been
done in the past, can be challenge and fun too. I take influences
from things. But I generally pride myself on original material, maybe
this is why Benders Cheez it Game hasn't emerged yet :)

and thanks to another (in my opinion) unnessecary upgrade to yahoo, I
can now no longer add or remove anything to the photos, since the
display is totally out of wack. It was bad enough the last time they
upgraded, but it was still usable. But personally I think the photo
upgrade even if it had've been displayed correctly is a big steaming
pile of shit to put it bluntly.

I think that's it :)

Cheers

DrUnKeN mAsTeR!!!

 

 

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