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Message: 6440
Author: andrewbroad
Date: 26/05/2008
Subject: Re: JSW: The 2008 Megamix
Daniel wrote:
>I have gathered the impression that The 2008 Megamix is a JSW128 game
> The problem is that I still have a number of rooms to edit -
> perhaps 40 of them - which are mainly JSW II rooms transferred from
> John Elliott's port of the BBC Micro version. It would take a lot
> of work - for which I lack inspiration at the moment - to redesign
> them to make them as intricate and interesting as the other rooms
> I have already designed / redesigned.
> I might leave them more or less as they are now, but then the game
> would suffer from a gross imbalance - some rooms being very
> elaborate, others being very simple. In fact, it is the case with
> "The Megamix" anyway, but I would like to reduce it as much as
> possible.
>
> So there we are. "The Megamix" continues to be my strong
> commitment, I actually feel a desire to get into editing again, but
> I am not quite sure what to do about the problem described above.
>
> Any ideas???
with 256 rooms. In that case, it would actually be desirable to have
lots of simple rooms as well as the intricate ones, otherwise I could
be playing it for months in three-hour weekly doses in 2020 or so!
A 20-room linear MM game should be as intricate as possible, with
every single cell contributing to the challenge of the room it's in,
but a large JSW game should be sparser, especially if you're limited
to an average of one item per room!
The original JSW is /very/ bare, which makes it easy to explore,
whilst having a few intricate rooms such as Cold Store, The Nightmare
Room, The Banyan Tree, The Wine Cellar and The Forgotten Abbey. I
think it was years after I visited all the other playable rooms that
I finally reached the Promised Land at the bottom of The Security
Guard and The Drive, and discovered Under The Drive and Tree Root!
--
Dr. Andrew Broad
http://geocities.com/andrewbroad/
http://geocities.com/andrewbroad/spectrum/
http://geocities.com/andrewbroad/spectrum/willy/
P.S. Things are quiet on the tennis-front for the duration of the
men's best-of-five-sets match prior to Anna Chakvetadze's, so I'm
using that time to attempt to clear the 14 remaining emails in my
MM/JSW backlog, so that I can finally upload my List of MM/JSW Games
completely up to date.
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