Ok Thomas I have a question. How far from completion is MOTA at the current
time? If the only thing left are the levels, then it would probably be a lot
easier to complete the game as is as opposed to completely rewriting it as
an FPS. The game is very polished and error free at this point, not to
mention it took you an extremely long time to code. If you were planning on
releaseing it by christmas, then I'm guessing there's not much left, and you
can finally give this whole thing a rest. Also since you don't like
releasing incomplete games, would it be very difficult to change all
references to Monty and release the old game as an open source project? I
must admit I always wanted to check out the rest of the monty levels. I was
always curious what happened next. remember the copyright holders never even
played the game, so they've no idea what the game does or doesn't contain or
if there are any relations to monty. in fact they probably forgot all about
you. I'm sure they have better things to do than chase an audiogame
developer around for very little gain.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas Ward" <thomasward1...@gmail.com>
To: "Gamers Discussion list" <gamers@audyssey.org>
Sent: Thursday, October 29, 2009 3:39 PM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] 80's games suggestion
Hi Yohandy,
Maybe, but here is the thing. If I decided to rerelease Montezuma's
Revenge under a new name I'd feel compelled to fix it and finish it.
Essentially voiding all of the time spend on Mysteries of the Ancients.
Oh, I'd end up with two games instead of one to be sure, but if I had done
that in the first place none of this would be happening now.
Anyway, the point I'm getting at is I take considerable pride in my work.
I can not contiously and knowingly release an incomplete product with
known bugs in it. That too me is like shotty workmanship.
Look at it like this. You hire a contractor to paint every room in your
house. He does a few rooms and says he quits. However, since you paid for
the work to be done in advance you are likely to want a refund or to have
him finish the job. He decides to do neither. That contractor is now going
to be blamed for shotty and incomplete workmanship, and rightly so. He
should either finish the work or offer a partial refund for the work not
completed.
Well, it could be argued my situation is different, and it is to a point.
On the other hand it is not so different. James and I both took money for
a project that is yet ot be completed one way or another. It can be argued
MOTA is a superior product than the one offered. Well, that may be, and if
so I need to deliver that product. However, if I go back to the old
Montezuma's Revenge source then it needs to be completed in order to
fulfill the purchase of that title. Then, I can do as I wish with MOTA.
Yohandy wrote:
I would be more than satisfied if all monty references were removed and
the 6 levels released in their current form. If you have the source code,
you could even add a boss at the end for completion if you so wish.
together with what we now have of MOTA, that should be enough. then you
can convert MOTA into an FPS game and we can buy that once it comes out.
this should be an easy way to please people I think.
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