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"three excellent remakes" is being too kind. I would call them three attempts at one good remake 🙂

If players enjoy them, it's all been worthwhile.

Hi there,

If you want to include MM40th with the other two or have it as a stand alone entry that's up to you, I'm fine either way, whatever make sense 🙂

Thanks for holding off on making the video public. I think you saw something in one of the caverns towards the end which got you thinking. Not hard to work out but think it is a nice touch I wouldn't want given away too soon. You did take some unusual routes, and in at least two caverns I saw the desire to head in the traditional but sub-optimal direction. And have no idea what you were doing at the bottom of Cavern 4, you made that look at least twice as hard as it needed to be 😛

Glad you like the look and layout. Was planning to release it on the 1st, but as I was playtesting it I saw another graphic or block location I could tweak. Was thinking a 40th Tribute comes around so rarely I should at least spend a few more days getting it as good as I can. Not saying it's the best mod of MM, as it isn't. Some clearly have better graphics, more original layouts, better music, and axtra machine code routines I never even thought of. But, although I'm blowing my own trumpet here, I think it's fun, bright, with good flow, and enough of a challege to keep the average player wanting just one more try.

Oh, glad you liked the title line faces. When I moved from an Upper & Lowercase font to just an Uppercase one, that freed up 26 characters, enough for 13 faces just there. And with some cavern titles already quite long I didn't need them for those, leaving just a few more to find in the unused characters £$%^_+{}~# 🙂

Hi,

I'd like to ask Andy Noble for permission to use his Manic Miner graphics in an upcoming project. The email addresses I've found for him all seem out of date. Does anyone have his contact details, or could pass on a request?

Many thanks,
Bob :)