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Message: 5726

Author: Hervé

Date: 18/03/2006

Subject: Re: Released WILLY in TRANSATLANTIC CRUISE

 

>Igor wrote:
>
> Plus: interesting fact. While Willy is exploring all these
> beautiful underwater cities and caverns, he can rather simply got
> up to his "titanic" and it will be on the same place as it was
> before (though, actually, when Willy will got to the surface, he
> won't even see his ship - it will be miles away from him). I
> suppose, that you have to insert a special plot in the "history of
> the game" that this ship is out of fuel or something and it can't
> move anymore.

Yes, the boat is stopped, the anchor proves it, even if the
propellers turn to back of the boat.
My first idea was to reduce the chains until the ocean floor, where
all is black, thus Willy would have gone up by this chains, toward
surface. but it was too deep, and gone up was too long, then I
reduced the length of the chains until the bottom of the iceberg...

Another abandoned idea: under the ocean, willy was to explore
the "TITANIC", but I replaced it by the "Pirat Ship" (with much less
rooms necessary to create it, 7 instead of 20).
I wanted to make a JSWgame only for this legendary boat, but now, I
have much other project, then I would never do it this game.

> Landscape of MARS looks nice, MARS ATTACK is very impressive!
> (Very nice flying saucer sprite, btw. I've seen it in Daniel's and
> Sendy's last game, right at the beginning)

I like to find same sprites in various games!
Of course I recall that all my new sprites is free!
Everybody can make use it and even to modify them.

> PLUS: a bug. It can be very easily avoided, but it exists. When
> appearing in the "dying" Atlanic palace, after Mars, you should
> collect the rightmost item, that is situated to the right from the
> green ufo. All the solid green blocks are conveyours to the right.
> So it is easy to stand on the conveyour block that will move Willy
> towards the earth block. And he won't be able to move anywhere. So
> the game should be restarted or reloaded.

Ok, I will modify that in my version V2!
(in one or two month)

> That's all for the moment, I suppose.
>
> IgoR

Thank you, for these comments Igor,
don't hesitate to deliver other opinions.

Thank you
see you soon
Hervé

 

 

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