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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 wrote:

I'm not sure what I'll call the new version of Ma jolie, though. I
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).

Among my future JSW plans is a re-release of "Jet Set Willy: Mind
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 wrote:

Blimey - I never expected this comment to come back to haunt me
over four years later! :-o

Could this be a good idea for a room name? Something along the lines
of "Condescending Footnotes", of course... "Haunting Comments" - how
does that sound? :-)

4.

In manicminerandjetsetwilly@yahoogroups.com, andrewbroad wrote:

I wouldn't presume to place myself on the spectrum of superiority.

Glad to hear that! :-)

5.

In manicminerandjetsetwilly@yahoogroups.com, andrewbroad wrote:

I just think it's my prerogative as an author to command my
territory with absolute authority.

I like this sentence a lot. And it's true, too - at least it's the
way things should be, isn't it?

6.

In manicminerandjetsetwilly@yahoogroups.com, andrewbroad wrote:

So if I design my game in such a way as to make a player feel
clever, stupid, joyous, surprised or frustrated (snip)

Wow! Are we close to harnessing JSW as a tool in psychotherapy?! Mind
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 wrote:

I am sure that tennis will continue to demand the lion's share of
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.

So be it! ENTER

8.

In manicminerandjetsetwilly@yahoogroups.com, andrewbroad wrote:

P.S. darnkitty.com (home of Flash Manic Miner and Cheese, Louise!)
is back - yay! :D
I really missed it in the last 16 days.

I missed it too, but others don't seem to have missed it as much,
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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