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The NL Column About Nothing In Particular III
by Kevin Rohleder
(zeta@valunet.net)
Some points:
A) Although you probably haven't noticed, I have been gone for a couple
months due to ISP switching and mail programs messing up (ok, I deleted it,
but I didn't MEAN to!). However, from what I have gotten from Greg's MZXML,
it seems that nothing interesting has happened.
B) I still am stuck with a 14.4 modem. I just felt like complaining about
that.
C) Is anyone making any MZX/ZZT game that will be incredible? I haven't
looked at January's NL yet, so forgive me if everyone wrote something in it
about that.
D) I am making a MZX game that will probably be pretty cool. It is NOT an
RPG, NOT a sidescroller. Just a normal adventure game like people USED to
make before all this sh.. stuff happened with RPGs and such. There is a cool
world map once you get to the Mage's world, a different spell system, and if
I feel like it, multiple characters. Also, I'd like to again stress the point
that it is not an RPG. Thank you.
E) Goto www.vie.com and download SubSpace. This has nothing to do with MZX or
ZZT, but the game is pretty cool.
F) I bet many of you are wondering (unless, of course, you are still sane)
if I am going to make another game with Joe (of Joe and the Wandering Targets
(in)fame). I am wondering that also. The abandoned Joe II and JoeBall! have
led me to think that one game is enough, but in the case of JoeBall!, that
was just a bad idea.
G) It occured to me that none of you have ever heard of JoeBall!, which is
good, because, as I said, it was a bad idea.
H) Does anyone know WHY people are become obsessive with the idea of creating
MZX RPGs?
I) It occured to me that I may be spelling "occured" wrong. No, seriously, it
occured to me that I haven't heard anything about Z2. What happened with it?
Is it finished? Is it in a public beta form that doesn't crash (as opposed to
the one I downloaded before I 'left')? Inquiring minds want to know!
J) When you write a MZX game, use GDMs, not MODs, as my stupid sound card no
longer recognizes MODs when being played through MZX. As a result, I can now
play the Zeux series with no music! Aren't you jealous? Well, actually, I
manually converted Caverns to GDMs, but when I tried to do that to Chronos,
I crashed it! Now I don't have Chronos at all!
K) Yes, I am egotistical enough that I think you should write your games
using GDMs because I say so. Actually, 1) Other people might have the same
problem. 2) GDMs take up less space (I think).
L) This is overly long now. I will end (future tense of 'to end') it now.
-kr / -=Z=-
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The Critic Corner
(February's Games)
By E. CyberBRO
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MZX
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NAME: Bomb Brothers
AUTHOR: Jeremy LaMar (SnigWich)
GRADE: B-
LOCATION: AOL
SIZE: 247K Zipped (636K Game Size)
QUOTE: "This is a rather plot-less game in you run around and blow up monsters
with explosives. It's for one or two players, and there's also a versus mode.
Includes a final battle with a really HUGE monster. Lots of explosions! Lots
of goobers! Lots of fun!! Check out some of my other games! Send any
questions or comments to SnigWich"
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Fortunately:
1. Those fancy kewl graphics are back once again from this creative
author.
2. This game has a concept similar to the Bomberman series.
3. Animation is simply superb.
Unfortunately:
1. This game gets repetative pretty quickly.
2. Being a plotless game it won't take long before some people quit
playing after they die.
3. When I died I didn't see a Game Over screen.
MZX
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NAME: Justin's Quest
AUTHOR: Justin Scheetz (Cheezit100)
GRADE: D
LOCATION: AOL
SIZE: 159K
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Fortunately:
1. Game doesn't have a truckload of bugs & glitches.
Unfortunately:
1. This game is as plotless as they come.
2. Obviously hasn't been tested thoroughly.
3. Didn't spend enough time programming certain parts. (Like the inn,
it doesn't do a dang thing for you.)
4. Most of the characters in the game explode for no reason.
MZX
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NAME: Sonic III
AUTHOR: Avery Morrow (AHMorrow)
GRADE: F+
LOCATION: AOL
SIZE: 29K
QUOTE: "This is the sequel to Sonic 1 & 2, and it sure is action-packehe
Freedom Fighters! Action-Packed Action! Tons of Action (did I say that
already?)! And DEFEAT BUTTNIK!
A ZZT version is in the process of being made. :)
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Fortunately:
1. Well.....uhhhhh.......it's got Sonic in it?
Unfortunately:
1. It's basicly a side-scrolling game with no side-scrolling engine.
2. By this I mean that It's like taking the engine out of games like
Super Chuck or something.
3. Way too d@mn short.
4. One boss, Robotnik.
5. The fact that a ZZT version is being made shortly. (More likely
better than this!)
6. North, East, South, West bullets are different. (WHY!?)
7. An incredibly useless feature to the game, the "Spin-Dash" attack.
(I don't know how well it works since all you need in this game is
bullets. Plus you get more than you need anyway.)
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Ranking │Name of Game /Author │Grade: │Time Reign │Last Month
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1st │Talon's Tale /by SnigWich │A- │1 Month │1st
2nd │Mechzone Turbo /by Jeff Stein │B- │1 Month │2nd
3rd │Bomb Brothers /by SnigWich │B- │NEW │---
4th │Arisa /by Scott Barnes │C │1 Month │---
5th │Violence Pak /by Xero942 │C- │1 Month │---
6th │Doomsday Dream /by Cecil16 │C- │1 Month │---
7th │Castle Adventure /by AlexMan2 │D │1 Month │6th
8th │Justin's Quest /by Cheezit100 │D │NEW │---
9th │Sonic III /by AHMorrow │F+ │NEW │---
10th │----- │--- │--- │---
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That's it for the NL this month. Until next month :-)
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