I totally agree except for one thing. I'd rather be a ham than a turkey. (grin)
--- Laughter is the best medicine. Look around you and find a dose. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Feir" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Gamers Discussion list" <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, March 22, 2008 6:10 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] My responce to Michael Feir. >I can completely understand your not wanting to square off against Utopia > Technology's lawyers, Tom. Given that opposition, I have no problem with > you > not producing a clone of Monty. It's a big disappointment. Your decision > regarding that is completely understandable. However, changing gears so > completely like that was very hard to take. Keeping with the sidescroller > style of game will at least give people like me the satisfaction of seeing > at least part of our dreams fulfilled in a new and doubtless bold way. I'm > pleased that at least we'll finally be getting a good sidescroller out of > this mess. That is a far more satisfactory compromise to the situation > than > to make an entirely different genre of game. I have every confidence that > you can produce a stellar sidescroller. Now that it's going to be > completely > your creation, I look forward to a game with your heart and soul in it. > Take > as long as you need to in order to make this game count. Now, I feel that > we > will indeed be getting a better game than what we paid for. You don't have > to worry about me hounding you about timeliness or anything like that. > You're honouring what you set out to do in the best manner possible given > the circumstances. I can completely accept and support that. If there's > anything I can do to bolster your efforts, I will if I can. Tom, you've > come > a long way in a very short time. I've been through similar episodes in > life > both as editor of Audyssey and in other capacities. You should take some > time to reflect and sort yourself out before plunging in. Try to relax and > enjoy the rest of this weekend. > > Lets everyone do some cooling off after that little roasting. We're > supposed > to be eating turkies not being them. People can take that "you are what > you > eat" stuff a little too far sometimes. Happy Easter, everyone. > Michael Feir > Creator and former editor of Audyssey Magazine > 1996-2004 > Check out my blog at: > http://www.blindspots.net/blog.php?user=13 > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Thomas Ward" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Gamers Discussion list" <[email protected]> > Sent: Saturday, March 22, 2008 8:59 PM > Subject: [Audyssey] My responce to Michael Feir. > > >> Hi Michael, >> I have read your email and find myself for the most part agreeing with >> you about work ethics, sticking things through to the end, and trying to >> follow through with promises made. It was both my promises as well as >> the fact I took pre-orders in December why I have changed my mind and >> have decided to begin work on a new side-scroller with a treasure >> hunting and archeology type theme to replace Montezuma's Revenge. >> In your email it is quite clear you are disappointed about the fact >> Montezuma's Revenge was canceled. I also recognize your desire to have a >> side-scroller as close to the original Montezuma's Revenge idea as >> possible. how ever, as you know I was recently asked to take the >> Montezuma's Return game down do to copyright issues and to cease and >> desist from producing that type of game. Rather than argue with the >> copyright holder's demands I agreed to meet all of their terms. If it >> hadn't been for that major set back the game would probably be nearly >> finished by now. >> I certainly can not promise you a Montezuma's Revenge game, but perhaps >> I can create a side-scroller of equal value that will be satisfactory to >> you and others that were so hoping for Montezuma's Revenge/Montezuma's >> Return. About the best I can do is try and deliver another high quality >> side-scroller with action, adventure, and of course treasure hunting. I >> honestly don't know if you will like it or not, but all I can do is try. >> One of the ideas I am considering for the new side-scroller is changing >> the location of the game to ancient Egypt. One of the reasons for the >> change to Egypt is I have always liked he Egyptian type enemies like >> bats, mummies, snakes, scorpions, crocodiles, etc that are popular in >> games about Egypt. The gods and goddesses of Egypt make very cool >> enemies or bosses. >> Another very good reason to think about Egypt is in more contemporary >> times archeologist's have discovered the Egyptian jewelers had access to >> some kind of low voltage electric power in order to create electroplated >> jewelry. Like the Babylonians the ancient Egyptians may have used dry >> cell type badderies filled with fruit juices and a copper rod to produce >> electric current. The reason this is important is in the Montezuma's >> Revenge games there are electric fields that would have been beyond the >> Aztec's technical means, but the ancient Egyptians may have had the >> technological ability to use dry cell batteries to power some kind of >> electric trip wire as a trap. >> Then, of course there is the entire science fiction and pop culture >> things to think about. Many authors have inferred that the ancient >> Egyptians are descendants of an alien race or people from Atlantice. The >> movie Star Gate made an interesting theory that Egypt had been >> controlled by an alien race that had gated to Earth thousands of years >> in the passed and then the gate was closed on our end and was berried >> until it was rediscovered in modern times. Then, there was that >> television series where the family was visiting the pyramids of Egypt >> and then got transported to another world through some interplanetary >> gate. The movies Mummy and Mummy Returns has certainly turned your >> classic Mummy creature into a cool and awesome enemy to fight. What I am >> saying these are the kinds of things I would like to hope to explore in >> my new game if I can without reprisal. >> About the only thing the new side-scroller will have in common with >> Montezuma's Revenge is you will still be gathering jewels, gold coins, >> climbing ropes, avoiding fire pits, but the rest of the game is bound to >> change and take a different direction as i create it. As the game's soul >> developer I do feel I have the right at least to come up with a good >> story line and create whatever monsters and characters will fill the >> game world. I don't feel I should be bound to a game like Montezuma's >> Revenge now that I have been asked specifically by Utopia not to do so. >> In short I am truly sorry I was unable to deliver on Montezuma's >> Revenge. However, now that I have agreed with Utopia to cease and desist >> on that title I have to come up with something new. At first I had hoped >> a 3D FPS game would satisfy you and others. Apparently that idea failed. >> So I am back to square one, thinking of a new game, that is a >> side-scroller. Unfortunately, I can not deliver the side-scroller game >> you ordered, but maybe I can deliver a side-scroller you can except as a >> substitution. >> Thanks. >> >> >> --- >> 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] > > > --- > 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] --- 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. 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