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Message: 6563
Author: andrewbroad
Date: 22/09/2009
Subject: Re: a little psychological boost
jetsetdanny wrote:
>I haven't done much MM/JSW since I released JSW64MM: James Bond v1.1 on 28th May. Since then, I've had some Major tennis-distractions, and a major crisis at work.
> Apart from that, some more activity in the Group would certainly be
> encouraging. If other people, including the authors of the games,
> are still active in the JSW/MM field, would you mind just
> mentioning it (or elaborating on it, of course) to give us all a
> little psychological boost? :-)
But all that is behind me now, so the resumption of my MM/JSW activity seems much closer. First, however, I have to rehost my website (GeoCities will close on 26th October, so I have to research other free web-hosts, select the one that best matches my requirements, and then transfer each page from the old site to the new). I then have to find a DVD-recorder that can handle multiple digital TV-channels at the same time, in order to cope with the UK's analogue switch-off, which will afflict my region on 4th November.
When I do have time to resume MM/JSW, my first priority will be to resume playing through the gamma-released games, which I left halfway through the Great Willy Games Explosion of 2000. :-o
My second MM/JSW priority will be to start work on a new MM/JSW game: most probably H*. Time permitting, I might interleave this with playing through the MM/JSW games of the Noughties, so that neither gets neglected.
Recently, I watched the 2005 film of Roald Dahl's _Charlie and the Chocolate Factory_. I was intrigued by the fact that the factory contained many named rooms, and that the proprietor was called Willy Wonka and wore a top hat!
So it's an obvious candidate for a JSW game - perhaps even a JSW II game, since I always thought the "Wonga" in "Wonga'S Spillage Tray" was a misspelling of "Wonka" until I learned that Wonga was a budgerigar!
_Willy and the Chocolate Factory_: I'm not committing myself to writing such a game at this stage; I just thought I'd put the idea out there.
(jet_visy was doing a MM game called Willy Wonka - based on _Charlie and the Chocolate Factory_ and its sequel _Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator_ - which is now "scrapped". Richard Hallas's _Jet-Set Willy in Space_ also contains some tributes to _Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator_.)
> So would it be acceptable if I beta-released the hard version ofI suppose it would be acceptable, but personally, if it were my game, I would definitely want the year of gamma-release to agree with the year in the game-name. If adding an extra room for 2010 would be both necessary and impossible, then I would make it my priority to gamma-release it in 2009, just as I made it my priority to gamma-release JSW64MM: James Bond in 2007.
> "The 2009 Megamix" by the end of this year, and then gamma-released
> both hard and lite version of the game in 2010, keeping "2009" in
> the name?
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Dr. Andrew Broad
http://tinyurl.com/andrewbroad-mmjsw
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