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Message: 6431

Author: andrewbroad

Date: 17/05/2008

Subject: Re: Andrew's List of MM/JSW Games

 

Daniel wrote:

When you update your list of MM/JSW games, Andrew, perhaps you
might consider creating a separate category, or subcategory, for
MM/JSW-inspired games entered in various competitions? With the
Crap Compo entries of 2007 there is quite a number of them already,
and perhaps it might be useful / interesting to group them together
somehow?

IMO, they do not warrant their own category (or subcategories). If
they are not full released games, then they are titbits; that's all.

The following games would fall into this category:

1. "Manic Miner - Super Pre-School Edition" - entered by Derek
Jolly in the 1999 Crap Games Competition.

2. "Jet Set Willy - Super Pre-School Edition" - entered by Andrew
Broad in the 2000 Crap Games Competition.

3. "The Invisible Man" - entered by Lee Prince in the 2002 Crap
Games Competition.

4. "Jet Set Willy 2 - Super Pre-School Edition" entered by John
Elliott in the 2004 Crap Games Competition.

5. "Area 51" - originally entered by Jonathan Cauldwell in the 2004
Minigame Competition.

6. "Non ethnic specific citizen of differing but no less valid
psychological attitude" - entered by Chaosmongers (Böniösoft) in
the 2005 Crap Games Competition.

7. "Jet Set Basic" - entered by Ivan Armada (aka IceVAN, Purple
Studios) in the 2006 BASIC Games Competition (Concurso de juegos en
BASIC).

8. "Jet Set Bulimic" - entered by DrUnKeN mAsTeR!!! in the 2007
Crap Games Competition.

9. "Advanced Jet Set Willy Guardian Simulator" - entered by Rickard
Berglind in the 2007 Crap Games Competition.

All of the above appear in the appropriate Titbits categories of the
alpha-copy of my List of MM/JSW Games on my hard drive. I can't tell
you the dark magic I had to resort to in order to obtain 8 and 9!

I may have missed something, but if we have at least 9 games, it
seems enough to create a sublist :-) . Perhaps not really move the
information about these games from where it currently is, but just
add a merged list - just like the merged list of all games you
added at some point?

Easier just to let the user Find "competition".

P.S. When you update the list, Andrew, please correct the error
which occurs where it mentions "Jet Set Willy - Super Pre-School
Edition", after the words "You play as Minor Willy from Philip
Bee's". There should be a separate point there about "The Invisible
Man"! In the old copies of your list (I try to keep all of them),
the error already appears in the 25 Feb. 2006 edition, but the
previous one I have - the 16 Nov. 2004 edition (there are various
editions in-between missing in my archives) is OK.

I wondered why I couldn't Find "Invisible Man" or "Prince" a few
minutes ago! I have runaway quotation-marks in my HTML code, which I
have just fixed in my alpha-copy. Thanks for pointing that out.

So far today, I have reached Message 6353 (5th January 2008) in my
backlog, with 122 unread MM/JSW emails remaining. I was overjoyed
when I passed the James Bond milestone, and it feels great to be in
2008 at last!

I'm also very pleased that you now host the latest versions of _Willy
on a Transatlantic Cruise_ and _Escape of the Snails_ on your
website, allowing me to reduce my used storage-quota from 97% to 94%.

Something would have to go very wrong for me not to reach the
earliest point in my backlog (29th February) at which I can upload
the List tomorrow (Sunday), but since I now expect fewer tennis-
distractions until next Friday (the French Open draw), I intend to
push on as far as I can, and upload whatever I have by Thursday night.

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

 

 

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