Jet Set Willie

Thank you, both of you. 🙂 Norman´s explanation made this very clear. 🙂 I am not sure, what I did wrong in my previous try, but now the invisible item worked. 🙂

Thank you, but how I can place an invisible item? And how to place it the way that it will be collected by a guardian? By letting item´s Ink pixels to be same as Paper doesn´t help. By placing an "empty" guardian (no Ink pixels) doesn´t help either. I tried an "empty" item without pixels, too.

As I have mentioned that as I haven´t played much the most of JSW homebrews, I may have invented the wheel few times once again. I don´t know if this is known already, so I will mention this, just in case. As any guardians with the same colour as Willy will automatically collect any items on their paths, you can prevent this by defining a blank guardian with different colour than that particular guardian and placing it so that it will "mask" the item on guardian´s path. The guardian will not collect the item then. 🙂 Of course it will affect the guardian´s colour or any cells touching it, but if you don´t mind that, this may help your room planning. 😊

Thank you Spider. I will wait for it. 🙂

You´re right, Danny! I somehow understood that wrong. I would like to try to speed-up my game anyway, just to see how it affects the playing, as my game certainly has some ´speed-down´ in it. For that reason, perhaps this speed-up will suit to my game? Though, it will affect that certain effect what I had added there. 😳 I don´t know if there are any JSW or MM games with such ´speed-down´ feature. Are there any? Spider, how I can add it to my game?

Could it be possible that those cheat Pokes have corrupted the corrupted parts even more?

Perhaps this should be a spoiler, but I will reveal that please try to survive through first few rooms, after that the game becomes easier for a while. In my opinion at least. 🙂

Thank you SymbolShift. 🙂 I didn´t know that about Manic Miner bottom area as I haven´t played to that far (survived...😄). As I had to make last minute fixes and Danny kindly made a last minute fix I was asking for, I had to play the game through once again and I had to keep trying in some rooms to pass through them even it´s my game! 😂 I have intentionally made the rooms a bit "hard" as this JSW game is not meant for kids anymore, as we aren´t kids anymore. And as many players here are JSW and MM experts, their skills are probably far above mine 😆 so I had to add a bit "hardness" to my game to prevent dullness. 🙂 That´s the reason I added infinite lives Poke from Richard Hallas´ game Join the Jet-Set! to bring anyone a chance to finish my game if they want to. 🙂 Thank you again, Richard! But please try without that Poke first,

SymbolShift, I have experienced the same sprite corruption, if you are talking about the white guardian in the first room. :) It disappears for a fraction of a second, because there are two white guardians (both using the same sprites), to make that alcoholist not walk in a straight line. That effect was better originally, but it made the game hard, as first I was making this game just for me and I knew what to expect so it had to be hard. But after I decided to eventually publish this one day, I had to change it, as it would have made the game too hard for others. But perhaps you mean those "lives left" sprites, as Norman also points to title screen. :) Those colour blocks on the bottom are for making lives left sprites more colourful. :) I would like to hear more feedback, I don´t mind if you like my game or not. :) But of course it would be nice, if there are something what you like, as that means I have succeeded to bring some nice moments for you. :) I didn´t aim to make an usual Willy game, more like a little unusual instead. About some things what I have added to my game, I don´t know if others have used the similar ideas (effects) previously, as I have mainly played Willy homebrews around 20 years ago or so. I have given just a quick look for the ones made in the last 10 years, it´s not that I don´t want to, but I am not in a good shape to concentrate to them better. That´s why I don´t know about the effects what others have made, except that one or few new games seem to have bi-colour guardians. As I haven´t read well or at all those topics, I had just thought that some coding was needed for those bi-colour guardians. There are few other things I have noticed, but I don´t remember them right now. It´s possible that I have invented the wheel few times during making my game. :D But that made the game making just more fun, as I had to try to think by myself different ways how to make something. :) I hope that at least some of you will play far enough to find them. For some reason I can´t add any emoji graphics now, the emoji menu stays just empty.

Thank you for sharing this! 🙂 I think it´s a feature, not an issue, if you can keep eating ghosts.🙂 It was a feature of some Pac-man clones. I have seen some clones what reset the dots if you die, so that´s a feature, too.

You´re welcome, thank you for all the help! 😊 I won´t add any screenshots here yet, to not spoil anyone´s playing experience. 🙂

Thank you! 🤣 I really wasn´t sure...😂 It´s nice to be a member of JSW Author Club. 🫡

View File What a Wonderful World of Willie Here is my JSWED48 game, What a Wonderful World of Willie. Using of the TZX file is suggested for full experience! 🙂The .TAP is included, if somebody wants to check my game in JSWED. 🙂 The built-in helping option will not be activated, on emulator at least, if you should choose to load the .TAP. You can find the release related post from here. Welcome to write any feedback there! 🙂 Thanks to JetSetDanny, it´s listed now on JSWcentral, too! 🙂 Submitter Jet Set Willie Submitted 09/18/2024 Category Jet Set Willy [Remakes]  

My game, What a Wonderful World of Willie (no relation) 😋 has been almost published now. You have just to wait until some of the moderators has checked it is not spam. 😉 When I started to make it, I wanted it to be a Willy game, but without Willy himself, so I thought about suitable Willy-ish names and I came to Willie, as it felt good. (no relation) 😄 Originally I was thinking about two different games, an Indiana Jones type exploring game and a spy story. I don´t want to spoil your playing, I just say that several Indiana type rooms were the first ones what I made. I soon I realised that those rooms alone would need tens and tens of rooms, not to talk about the jungle and other places. The game would have needed at least 256 rooms, but I am not sure, if that would have been enough. And as being busy, too, I chose to just merge my two ideas and trying to fit them in just about 60 rooms. The original version was much harder, as I was making it just for myself. But I quickly changed it to easier to make it suitable for others. OK - there is still one harder room. 😇 The game can be found from Downloads > Jet Set Willy Remakes. Please load the TZX file first, by using a real speed tape emulation, thank you. 🙂 If I was you, I would load it using a real Spectrum. 😊

Thank you Norman for the detailed answer, that´s good to hear! 🙂I will soon publish my game, as JetsetDanny has testplayed it now and he didn´t find any bugs. 😍I will just make little last minute fixes and I will publish it after that. 🙂 After Norman´s answer, I think I will release a faster version later, too. 🙂

I just found this topic, otherwise I would have asked metalmickey to share us some photos of his mansion, so we could see if it´s anything like in JSW. But a photo or two from mineshaft will do, if you didn´t make it. 😉 Some colours from the colour code sheet and password screen didn´t match with the original MSX tape. I don´t mean that there´s an error in some parts of the sheet, as by typing in "wrong" colours the password screen let me play the game. The colours and numbers on password screen may have been in wrong order, I think. Thank you Norman for the sheet, mine was similar as what Andy posted above your post. And thank you Danny for the link! 🙂

Thank you! What a nice increase in speed! 🙂 My game could benefit with this and as just small amount of space is needed, it will fit there then. But I think I will publish my game as it is and after people have played it, I might then publish a "speed up version", so everyone can compare them, if they want to. I tried the original and the faster version sound turned off, so please tell me, does that code speed up the music and sound effects, too? If it does, I am not sure, if that´s a good thing.

I will repeat: Soon you will see! 😉I will tell a bit about the game making then. But about what you said about increasing the game speed a bit, is there a speed increasing piece of code available already? I know there is some super fast JSW game, but I don´t know anything else.

JetsetDanny has put some code there (thank you!) to make few rooms to work, but it shouldn´t take much room. My own code occupies even less, actually I have just changed few things, that was fun! 😊Soon you will see!

As soon as JetsetDanny has time to test play it. 🙂I have tested it through many times, I hope he won´t find anything what needs a big change in some room. 😄

Thank you, Norman and Spider! I had forgotten that. The second program works now 🥰 so the whole game works. 🙂 The problem with the LINE was that I have used Klive emulator. When I go to extended mode and press symbol shift and 3 together, it goes to K mode. I tried ZXSpin now, it brings me LINE. 😀

Is it possible to save with the start line number in ZX-Editor or ZX-Block Editor? I think it should be possible as there are so many options there, but I didn´t find it.

Yes, in 48K BASIC. I just typed it. As you mentioned EXTEND mode, I tried that and it brings the same result, SAVE "name" ?line .

Thank you, nice to learn these.