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Message: 6657

Author: andrewbroad

Date: 10/05/2010

Subject: Re: Jet Set Willy: The 2010 Megamix

 

jetsetdanny wrote:

Which brings me to the question: will there be people interested
in playtesting the beta version? Quite openly, I am particularly
interested in Andrew Broad's time and willingness to do it, since
he has been an invaluable source of feedback in the past. Before,
say, the end of June and the beginning of December, will you have
any time, Andrew, to do it?

Not good news, I'm afraid. I have a significant backlog of tennis-reports to write, which I am bound by my vows of Eternal Fanship to complete before I can devote any significant time to playing games (beyond seizing any quick-medal opportunities at darnkitty.com).

Furthermore, I have less than two weeks to go before the start of my six weeks of Major Tennis Distractions (23rd May to 5th July), out of which I am likely to emerge with a backlog that I shall be struggling to clear by the end of 2010.

I had hoped to clear my existing backlog before 23rd May, but I'm having a really frustrating year: I work so hard to free up time for other things (including MM/JSW), and then something else comes along, and I lose all the time I had saved.

Because of my now-unavoidable failure to clear my backlog before 23rd May, the situation is likely to get even worse in the second half of 2010, when I will have to accept even more commitments (real life as well as tennis). I feel as though I'm already halfway through 2011 in terms of losing MM/JSW time in advance. :-(

It's so frustrating not to have any time for MM/JSW this year, because I have several game-ideas that I would love to implement. I hate the fact that my backlog of unplayed gamma-released MM/JSW games now stretches back fully ten years, and the fact that on 28th May, it will have been a whole year since I last updated my List of MM/JSW Games.

My passion for MM/JSW still burns brightly, but I know that if I were to give in to it now, it would blow my other goals right out of the water. I cannot break the promises that I have made to the tennis-community. I would love to make time for MM/JSW by ignoring all the demands of real life, but I have to accept that there are consequences to my actions, and that there would, for certain, be consequences to wrong actions. Dark they would be, and inescapable.

As for beta-testing The 2010 Megamix, it's not an absolute "no" at this stage, but it is most unlikely that I would be able to meet a deadline in 2010.

--
Dr. Andrew Broad

 

 

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