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Message: 5857
Author: Daniel
Date: 29/06/2006
Subject: Daniel's new release coming soon!
Hello Everybody,
First of all, congratulations to Igor on the ultra-fast designing of
a new game :-) . It is not exactly a method that would sound pleasing
to a perfectionist like me, but the fact that a new game HAS been
created is always a great joy :-) . I have just downloaded it, but
haven't had the time yet to have a look at it.
Igor wrote:
> And, please, do not stop JSWing and creating??? Is it ok, that thereYou see, Igor, nothing's been the same since you announced your
> were 4 messages due the whole month???
retirement from JSW designing :-( . Perhaps your unexpected comeback
will turn the tide now :-) :-) .
Well, seriously, I have been devoting a lot of time to JSW recently,
but not in the sense of posting messages, but preparing my upcoming
release. It will be the "side project" which I have mentioned a
couple of times already, and promised to release by the end of June.
Well, this will not happen, because it sort of snowballed, presenting
me with new challenges week after week, but I am very pleased to say
that I have practically finished working on the game file itself, and
there is a good chance that it will be released in July. I now need
to playtest it thoroughly and prepare the extras (the text file, maps
and a "quirky spoiler", which will help the players who are
unfamiliar with the quirky features of the game engine).
I keep calling it a "side project" and I still do not want to reveal
its exact nature, but for the sake of publicity I will say that it
involved a lot of manual hacking (and made me learn a lot of things
about the game engine, the memory, etc.), it will most probably be
the JSW48 game which makes the best use of the available memory ever
and it will contribute to the MM/JSW community over 25 brand new
rooms and some features NEVER BEFORE SEEN in a JSW48 game, or in any
JSW game for that matter.
So keep an eye out for its release some time in July, hopefully :-) .
Happy editing and gaming to everyone!
Daniel
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