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Posted by Andrew Broad on 12/31/2008, 2:22 am
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I am delighted to announce the gamma-release of _JSW64: Flash Manic Miner_, which is available as a free download from http://geocities.com/andrewbroad/spectrum/download/
The game is a Spectrum conversion of the new caverns in Matthew Gordon's Flash Manic Miner, which can be played online at http://www.darnkitty.com/manic/
JSW64: Flash Manic Miner starts in Cavern 21 ("Central Cavern II") and starts looping after Cavern 43 ("Killer Birds"), which is the last edited cavern in either version. So you have 23 rooms to play through, and 180 items to collect.
The game is based on John Elliott's JSW64 engine (Variant Z), which combines almost all the features of Matthew Smith's classic Manic Miner and Jet Set Willy. In particular, this game is based on John Elliott's conversion of Manic Miner to JSW64.
I chose JSW64 primarily because it supports having more than 5 items in a room (the Flash MM caverns have up to 15 items each), and also in order to simulate certain features of Flash MM not supported by the Spectrum MM/JSW game-engines (e.g. being able to fall onto a conveyor and walk the wrong way, guardians passing through 'inkful' Fire-cells, and vertical guardians needing to have their columns specified in pixels rather than characters).
JSW64: Flash Manic Miner comes with a bonus-game: _Manic Miner: Matthew Smith 2008 Remix_. This is a minor variant of Manic Miner inspired by the interview with Matthew Smith in Retro Gamer magazine (Load 48, February 2008). I have taken on board everything Matthew Smith said about doing things differently - within the limitations of the MM game-engine - and made numerous changes of my own, such as adding the unused cell-graphics, and forcing the player to do things that aren't enforced in the original.
2009 looks like being an exciting year for Broadsoft MM/JSW games, as:
(a) I'm much further ahead with my tennis-reports than I was with last year's tennis-reports a year ago, which should leave much more time free for MM/JSW in 2009 than in 2008.
(b) I plan to release v1.1 of _JSW64 Manic Miner: James Bond_, which adds "Quantum of Solace", and will come with an easy variant, edited music and full room-documentation. There's a beta-version in the Files section of the Manic Miner and Jet Set Willy Yahoo! Group
(c) I plan to start work on a new MM/JSW game, which is top secret for now! 8-)
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Dr. Andrew Broad
http://geocities.com/andrewbroad/spectrum/willy/
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