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Message: 5991
Author: Daniel
Date: 19/12/2006
Subject: Another suggestion for AMJT
Here's another suggestion for Andrew Broad's Advanced MM/JSW Trainer.
Again, my apologies if it has been mentioned before.
An interesting phenomenon in the game is that you cannot collect an
item if a "shadow of a guardian" passes over it, i.e. the colour of
the guardian, even without any pixels. A prime example of this is in
the room "Close to an answer now..." (30) in Nick Aldridge's
game "Jet Set Willy Stupid", where the two leftmost items can only be
collected during a split second (forgive my imprecision in describing
the time) when the green vertical guardian is entirely out of their
area (above them). At other times they are protected against being
collected by its "colour shield".
Another example is the room "Esmerelda's 'do'" (24) in Philip
Bee's "Jet Set Willy Ivy". I got very confused when I jumped for the
items through which Esmerelda is moving and found out that sometimes
I collected them, and sometimes not. Only afterwards did I realise
why it was happening.
I have not experimented with this phenomenon, but wouldn't it be
possible to design a challenge with a complicated movement of TWO
guardians, with only an instance when the item can be collected? Or
perhaps even with guardians overshadowing each other, like in the
room "Down in the Basement" (013) of "JSW: Mind Control", where the
red VG on the left momentarily makes the adjacent green VG red.
Daniel
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