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Message: 6466
Author: andrewbroad
Date: 08/09/2008
Subject: Re: Flash Manic Miner / Andrew's activities
Daniel wrote:
>That's great! It had been down for so many days that I thought I'd
> Flash Manic Miner is back online for anyone interested to have a go
> at it :-) .
lost it for good, and after I saw the Subject of your message in my
Inbox this morning, I went through the working-day merely with the
idea that I wasn't suffering alone! ;-)
> Andrew, I look forward to seeing "JSW64: Flash MM" and the newYou should never curse tennis, because without tennis there would be
> version of "James Bond", and of course I curse tennis every time
> I think of it, and the necessity to have a full-time job, too :-) .
no Kari Kriníková series (We Pretty, Goodnite Luddite, and possible
future game Afrikaan if I ever get round to it). I consider We Pretty
and Goodnite Luddite to be... gotta be careful here, because I've a
feeling this may come back to haunt me as a quote... the greatest
works of my life in terms of MM/JSW games and story-writing.
I don't think I would have written two other JSW games instead of We
Pretty and Goodnite Luddite, though I must admit I would have done a
lot more MM/JSW since 2005, were it not for my mushrooming tennis-
addiction. I was planning to do Afrikaan and MM:Outside that year,
and now it looks like the 00s will pass without them...
As for the full-time job, I could resign any time I wanted, but I'm
very grateful that it delivered me from a long and indefinite period
of unemployment, and it would not make me happy on my death-bed if I
chose to go back to unemployment for the rest of my life. So I plan
to keep my job until either the company goes under or I am forced to
quit for personal reasons.
> P.S. Which is more correct to use: "teleporter" or "teleport"? I've"teleport" should only be used as a verb.
> seen both, seemingly in the same context. Is there any difference
> at all between the two words?
"teleporter" is the noun for one who teleports, or for the device
used to teleport.
I was thinking about teleportation the other day in the context of
JSW and Harry Potter - about how teleporters are like portkeys, and
WRITETYPER is like Apparition. I even allowed the thought of writing
a Harry Potter JSW game to run through my mind, but then I reflected
on how litigious and overprotective of her copyright J.K. Rowling has
been, and got cold feet.
I'm getting worried about my plans for The Chronicles of Narnia too,
after reading how the C.S. Lewis estate forced someone to transfer a
domain-name simply because it contained the word "narnia".
At least the Star Wars copyright-holders seem more reasonable when it
comes to fan-fiction and the like - again judging from what I read in
the paper. It's not like I have a reliable measure of such things.
> P.S. 2 I am still kind of waiting for someone technicallyI've been planning to investigate this for a couple of years now, but
> knowledgeable to explain the rope-teleport phenomenon (bug).
> I mean, to explain what exactly causes it to happen.
it's not exactly high on my to-do list. Perhaps in 2009, if I manage
to free up more time for MM/JSW.
At the moment, tennis requires both my Saturdays and my Sundays, as
I'm determined to clear my backlog of reports and biography-updates
by the end of 2008. By working hard at those for the next few weeks,
I hope to free up at least Sundays for MM/JSW by the end of the year,
so that I'll be able to gamma-release JSW64MM: James Bond v1.1,
JSW64: Flash Manic Miner, and perhaps a little something extra...
--
Dr. Andrew Broad
http://geocities.com/andrewbroad/
http://geocities.com/andrewbroad/spectrum/
http://geocities.com/andrewbroad/spectrum/willy/
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