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Message: 6343

Author: andrewbroad

Date: 29/12/2007

Subject: Re: Flash Manic Miner / James Bond

 

Daniel wrote:

>
> Yesterday night I made a mistake of trying, for the first time
> ever, Flash Manic Miner (http://www.darnkitty.com/manic/) and I got
> hooked up on it immediately. I spent (wasted?) a good part of the
> last 30 hours of my life trying to pass all of the 20 "traditional"
> caverns and /or get on top of the high score table. I have just
> succeeded in both :-) .

Yes, Flash Manic Miner is the most addictive online MM/JSW game I've
come across, for the two reasons you mention!

> As of this moment, I lead the table with 40674 points and 23
> caverns, and "atlas_t", an undisputed leader recently, is second
> with 38170 points and 21 caverns
> (http://www.darnkitty.com/manic/hiscores.php).

Congratulations! Cavern 23 ("The Aviary") is the first really
difficult one IMO.

> Now, the bad thing about Flash Manic Miner highscore table is that
> it only embraces November and December of this year.

Well, it does make you want to keep playing on the 1st of every month
to reclaim the #1 position! :-)

> Therefore, old glories, such as Andrew Broad's 45982 points (see
> message 5965) from just over a year ago are there no longer (have
> you ever improved it afterwards, Andrew?).

That's my all-time high score. I've never been past Cavern 25
("Revenge Of The Clones"), due to lack of time for a sustained
attempt (it's really frustrating and nerve-wracking when you only
live thrice!).

> So, my JSW time which was meant to go to playing "James Bond"
> was "stolen" and lost, but I know Andrew will understand this one
> addiction :-). Anyway, Andrew, would you expect any playtesting
> done before the gamma release - if so, on which version - will
> there be any time for it?

The deadline for beta-testing is 23:59 GMT on 30th December, as my
current plan is to release JSW64MM:JB v1.0 shortly after midnight on
31st December, so that even the New Zealanders will have to recognise
it as a 2007 release!

To be honest, though, although the game itself is probably finished
as of v0.8, there's so much I have to do tomorrow before the gamma-
release that it's unlikely I'd have time to take any comments on
board. But there's always v1.1 (after Bond 22 is released).

It would be great if you could at least confirm that v0.8 is
completable. I've playtested every room individually to completion
now, but I can't be 100% sure until the whole game has been
playtested from beginning to end without any editing in between.

--
Dr. Andrew Broad
http://geocities.com/andrewbroad/
http://geocities.com/andrewbroad/spectrum/
http://geocities.com/andrewbroad/spectrum/willy/

 

 

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