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Message: 6112

Author: Daniel

Date: 03/04/2007

Subject: Re: Mystery room: "The Liver Birds" / "Jet Set Scribbler"

 

1.

In manicminerandjetsetwilly@yahoogroups.com, darth_melkor wrote:

The entry for Jet Set Willy: Goodnite Luddite on World of Spectrum
http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0014528
has a screenshot of a room called "The Liver Birds" which I'm pretty sure isn't in Goodnite Luddite (at least it doesn't show up in JSWED, but then JSWED doesn't recognise J.G. Harston's extension that allows a 48K game to have >64 rooms, and Goodnite Luddite /does/ have exits outside the normal 0-63 range).

So does anyone know which game "The Liver Birds" is from?

It is room 001 from Edward Martland's (soa1000) 2003 game "Jet Set
Willy: FTB". Edward gives the following explanation in the Read-me
file:

"The Liver Birds
The Liver Birds are a) two large metal birds, stood atop the Liver
Building, and b) a crap TV show
[http://www.phill.co.uk/comedy/liver/%5d (well I didn't like it
anyway). Popular legend has it that the female Liver bird looks out
to sea to look after the sailors (Liverpool is and always has been a
shipping town) and the male bird looks in-land to find a decent pub.
In this game, one bird is looking towards 'The Cast Iron Shore', and
the other indeed looks towards 'The Pub'."

2.

In manicminerandjetsetwilly@yahoogroups.com, darth_melkor wrote:

I never meant to become a MM/JSW author. It just happened the day I
opened Manic Miner in JSWED and started scribbling. As soon as I
had written the first room, I knew I had created something that was
too unique to waste.

Yes, "Manic Scribbler" is unique, indeed :-) . It was a great joy for
me to struggle with, and a delicious challenge, first just playing it
and then recording an RZX walkthrough (which can be downloaded from
the RZX Archive) :-) .

[My previous messages concerning the game are, among others, messages
#: 5385, 5602, 5878, 5896 and 5898]

In manicminerandjetsetwilly@yahoogroups.com, darth_melkor wrote:

I hope my legacy to MM/JSW will be that scribbling is an
interesting alternative approach to room design (especially to
compensate lack of inspiration! ;-) My dream is that some of the
great MM/JSW authors will throw in a few scribbles once in a while,
just as today's glamorous pop songs often include a rap section.

In some future JSW game of mine (if real life allows me to continue
editing) I will certainly place a tribute to the scribbling approach
and "Manic Scribbler" - (at least) one very difficult room designed
using this method :-) .

Daniel

 

 

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