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Message: 6130
Author: davidfaltskog
Date: 18/04/2007
Subject: Re: Lack of commitment to the lifestyle
Excellent Boulderdash game :) i look forward to Vol 2.
Well done and keep up the good work Sendy.
--- In manicminerandjetsetwilly@yahoogroups.com, "Alexandra"
>
is
> It bugs me muchly sometimes, that I have fallen out of the loop with
> regards to JSW editing. I think it's safe to say you should take
> anything I say about starting back up again with a grain of salt.
>
> That said, I do hope to start again soon. I have all my stuff on a
> portable hard drive, I just need to find the UK->US adapter, and my
> creativity these days has really come into it's own (in my
> not-so-humble opinion).
>
> Some of the things I can blame for not getting back into it:
>
> - Boulderdash Construction Kit on the C64 (and the Crazy Light mod
> with loads of extra gubbins and cell types)
>
> - My boyfriend being ill and looking after him.
>
> - The fact that my boyfriend's good PC has broken down and this one
> a bit slow making it a chore to use.
up
>
> - Inertia. I fear commitment to these projects. So many of them end
> scrapped. I was working on a really extensive hack of Super Mario
even
> World a long time ago, I put probably hundreds of hours into it, and
> since I was using hacks and programs/tools as they were being
> developed, it fell pray to bad code causing excessive slowdown (I
> pointed this out at the time, when it could have been rectified, but
what
> nobody 'noticed' until a recognized programmer brought it up). So
> does this have to do with JSW? Not an awful lot, but like SMW
hacking,
> it's a longterm project and I've been more interested in shortterm
201.html
> mod-making such as Boulderdash.
>
> (If anyone's interested, there are screenshot maps of my first
> released BD game here:
>
> http://www.boulder-dash.nl/down/maps/Sendy/Sendy%20Dash%20Vol.%
>
little
> I think they're purdy).
>
> Anyway, when I do get back into my JSW/MM projects, I'll post a
> (or probably longwinded, rambling and slightly narcissistic) note
here
> to let you know.
active!
>
> Hope everyone is well, and it's good to see this place is still
>
> Sendy
>
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