Hey Thomas, Could you provide a public purchasable beta of monty like Che did with rail racer? I think this will give you more testers, and we'll get a chance to play the game as well.
------------- Are you into Anime, manga, and video game music? If yes, take a look at this site. http://gh.ffshrine.org?r=16426 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Thomas Ward" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, August 19, 2007 9:55 PM Subject: [Audyssey] Montezuma's Revenge Future Plans. > Hello gamers, > Just so that none of this comes as a major surprise to anyone I'm > letting everyone know in advance what my future plans are regarding > public beta 2. As I am going to do a lengthy upgrade to the engine core > it could be a while before the next beta appears. So here is the plans. > First, for quite a while now I have been working on a Engine2D.dll file > which will act as a major game engine for 2D USA Games titles like > Montezuma's Revenge, etc. As much of the code is based on Montezuma's > Revenge itself I'm planning on removing the Montezuma's Revenge custom > engine code from the game and convert the game over to the newer > Engine2D.dll file. > The long term advantages of doing this will be substantial. There will > be a common engine for all side-scrollers and other 2D games from USA > Games which will make maintaining, upgrading, and development much > faster. Eventually, I will be able to write a game level editor that can > use the Engine2D.dll file to share new levels with the host game. > Registration etc can handled be tween the registration program, and the > game via the Engine2D.dll file. As I said advantages are many, and these > are just a few reasons why I am doing this. > Second, I'm going to be completely rewriting the jump code from scratch. > As most of you know there has been several bugs involved with the > current jump code, and I think I really do need to redesign, > restructure, and redo the way jumping is done internally. I am going to > look at how James North did it, since his code worked, and mottle my > version after his jumping code. > Third, I am going to send the game off to my private testers, for > private testing to work any bugs out of the beta. > Finally, once I am sure it is stable enough to be put out to the public > it will be released. > As far as a time frame I don't know how long this will take. It could be > as little as two weeks or as long as a month. i don't really know until > I actually do it. > > > --- > Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] > If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at > http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. > All messages are archived and can be searched and read at > http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the > list, > please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- I am using the free version of SPAMfighter for private users. It has removed 5617 spam emails to date. Paying users do not have this message in their emails. Get the free SPAMfighter here: http://www.spamfighter.com/len --- Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
