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Message: 6489
Author: Daniel
Date: 05/11/2008
Subject: Re: Ma jolie Game-engine bug
1.
[Re. Andrew's comments on reloading and restarting the game due to a
bug in MM when jumping off the top or falling off the bottom of the
screen]
The point above reloading versus restarting the game is very valid,
of course. I never thought about it, because I never restart games -
I usually reload recent snapshots, which "automatically" made me
think of reloading when I wrote my previous post. The only exception
may be special situations, e.g. investigating phenomena such as
the "rope-teleport bug" or problems, such as the bug in the Final
Version of (Steve Worek's) "Jet Set Emily: Baby on the Go", which
made teleportation impossible (and hence, made the game
incompletable) when you let the attract mode run before you started
playing (the bug was kindly fixed by Andrew).
2.
--- In manicminerandjetsetwilly@yahoogroups.com, andrewbroad
> I'm not sure what I'll call the new version of Ma jolie, though. I
Among my future JSW plans is a re-release of "Jet Set Willy: Mind
> don't really want to call it the Final Edition (à la Jet Set
> Emily), because I never know when I might want to edit it again. So
> my options are "Third Edition" (inconsistent with "Special
> Edition"), "Special Edition 2008", or to add version-numbers
> retrospectively (thus the original edition would be v1.0, the
> Special Edition 2006 would be v1.1, and the new edition would be
> v1.2).
Control" and "Willy's Hoard" with loading screens. I do not plan to
change anything in the games themselves, just to add the loading
screens and change the names of "Program" and "Bytes". I am planning
to call each of these new releases a "Deluxe Edition", or "DeLuxe
Edition" - I'm not sure which is better. Just to say that it's the
same thing with a little "luxury" bit at the beginning :-) .
An idea for "Ma jolie", perhaps?
3.
--- In manicminerandjetsetwilly@yahoogroups.com, andrewbroad
> Blimey - I never expected this comment to come back to haunt me
Could this be a good idea for a room name? Something along the lines
> over four years later! :-o
of "Condescending Footnotes", of course... "Haunting Comments" - how
does that sound? :-)
4.
--- In manicminerandjetsetwilly@yahoogroups.com, andrewbroad
> I wouldn't presume to place myself on the spectrum of superiority.
Glad to hear that! :-)
5.
--- In manicminerandjetsetwilly@yahoogroups.com, andrewbroad
> I just think it's my prerogative as an author to command my
I like this sentence a lot. And it's true, too - at least it's the
> territory with absolute authority.
way things should be, isn't it?
6.
--- In manicminerandjetsetwilly@yahoogroups.com, andrewbroad
> So if I design my game in such a way as to make a player feel
Wow! Are we close to harnessing JSW as a tool in psychotherapy?! Mind
> clever, stupid, joyous, surprised or frustrated (snip)
control it would be, indeed. This could get us into trouble, though,
because there's a lot of money involved in psychotherapy, and so the
copyright issues could get back at us... :-)
7.
--- In manicminerandjetsetwilly@yahoogroups.com, andrewbroad
> I am sure that tennis will continue to demand the lion's share of
So be it! ENTER
> my Copious Free Time for years to come, but surely, for MM/JSW, it
> can only get better than it has been in the first ten months of
> 2008.
8.
--- In manicminerandjetsetwilly@yahoogroups.com, andrewbroad
> P.S. darnkitty.com (home of Flash Manic Miner and Cheese, Louise!)
I missed it too, but others don't seem to have missed it as much,
> is back - yay! :D
> I really missed it in the last 16 days.
since Andrew's MM score is currently the only one on the board! :-o
Having said that, I haven't added any scores myself, because I know
that when I have a go at it, I will grow addicted again, and I want
to avoid it so as to be able to devote more time to JSW for the
(emulated) ZX Spectrum.
Daniel
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