Hello tom. I certainly appreciate having the original game recreated as exactly as possible in audio. Thus far, though many audio games have been "based on" classic games, I don't think they've been exact replications with the same layout, physics etc. For example, the maze in Packman talks I believe, is not a replication of the original packman maze, ----- though it's entirely possible I'm wrong on this point.
I can also see this sort of thing being a good way to introduce sited gamers to audio gaming, in a similar way to the remake game "One switch manic miner" a one switch remake of the old spectrum game. however, it does seem a slight shame that all the level designing that has been done both by yourself and James North is completely scrapped, especially for those people who played the previous demos. One approach I've seen several remakes use, is to offer both "new" and "classic" content. Thus you get the remake of the original game, but with various optional extras. So in Monti for example, you could offer a choice (perhaps in the main menue), betwene the classic temple maps, and the redesigned ones. Obviously, how possible this would be will heavily depend upon how compatible the new level maps would be with the changes your making to the game core in order to play the classic maps, ---- and how much trouble re-designing the "new" maps would be. I must admit I'm slightly disappointed about the delayed release (I'm rather looking forward to Monti), but it does strike me that when the game is released, having as much content available as possible would be a good thing. Also, as I said, it seems a shame that the work put into level design might be wasted. Of course, sinse my knolidge of programming is entirely theoretical, it's quite probable that I'm talking a complete load of rubbish here as far as doing anything practical goes. Stil, that's my suggestion anyway. Beware the Grue! dark. Ps: Maybe at some point in the future, when other usa games projects are done and dusted you might considder creating some kind of map maker program for Monti, so that people who've bought the game could design their own levels. That would be fantastic! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Thomas Ward" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <gamers@audyssey.org> Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2007 1:08 PM Subject: [Audyssey] Montezuma's Revenge News > Montezuma's Revenge News > > 3/22/2007 > > by Thomas Ward > > > Hello gamers, > A couple of weeks ago we mentioned that we would be putting out a demo > sometime in the month of April. However, some very recent discussions > with the test team have revealed a desire to make Montezuma's Revenge as > close as possible to the original classic Atari game. After some thought > I have agreed to do this, but it does require some substantial changes > in the game core to do this. > When James North set out to create his version of Montezuma's Revenge it > was not a total authentic clone of the game. There were large > similarities, most was the same, but some major things were not the > same. For example, the temple layouts were not at all the same. When I > took up the project I more-or-less used his layouts and not the classic > Atari ones. > Now, though the test team and I have been discussing this, and we are > beginning to agree that classic temple layouts would be the way to go, > and that will require some additional time to complete. > Some other notable changes between James North's version and the classic > game were the number of keys and doors. In James North's version there > were four keys and four doors. In the classic there were several blue, > green, red, and white keys as well as several matching doors. So the > number of keys and doors will have to be increased to make the game > more-or-less authentic. > We know that many of you truly want a copy of this game soon, and we > have worked hard to put out something as soon as possible. However, we > also feel the game is based on a classic game, and should imitate the > classic game as close to the original without too many additional > changes. So please bare with us a little while longer as we work hard to > put out an even better version of the game than we already have. > At this time we now have decided to call off the April release, and we > do not yet have an idea for another target date for Beta 1. It will > largely depend on how long it will take us to work on the new temple > levels and make changes to the game core. > > > _______________________________________________ > Gamers mailing list .. Gamers@audyssey.org > To unsubscribe send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can > visit > http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org to make > any subscription changes via the web. _______________________________________________ Gamers mailing list .. Gamers@audyssey.org To unsubscribe send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can visit http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org to make any subscription changes via the web.
