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Ah yes. I have done that before... I always move my mouse away these days just in case. I quite like that escape route level though. Thanks for playing!

Thanks @SymbolShift. Happy to hear that you enjoyed it. Did you play it through?

@MtM - Thanks. No problem honestly. Btw. the game starts in infinite lives mode and just counts deaths. You can also press "d" on the title screen to switch the badly named "death mode" off and instead have 5 spare lives to complete all 20 levels. This should be pretty doable for folks on here I would imagine and shouldn't take that long. It's about 8 minutes or so if you don't lose any lives and know your way through the levels.

Btw, I should add that the last few levels should be fun and look more like a Manic Miner game. Also, my 8 year old just found an issue on the iPad where Miner Willy keeps walking right. It is basically caused by the mouse controls where the mouse, touch pad or touch screen is pressed on screen but it never gets unclicked as the pointer/focus is moved off screen before it was released. That is those silly mouse controls that are mostly sticky tape. Perhaps that was the same issue you found also. I can see it happening easily on some laptops. Could also be something else though I guess.

Hi @MtM - no problem whatsoever. Thanks for giving it a go. I've played it through several times now in testing and haven't come across that particular issue yet. Will keep my eyes out for it. It is probably not level related. Totally understand about it not being in the spirit of the original. Mostly it's an experiment to see what will happen and if people will revisit the original where they may have given up before. I personally have friends who can't get past the yellow windup robot on the first level for some reason that I can't understand 🙂 I'm also hoping to draw some scratch kids into thinking that they can use my engine to make their own MM levels to see where that might go.

Hi all. I seem to have gone down some kind of Manic Miner rabbit hole... I had high hopes for doing other things this winter holidays but for some reason playing around with ideas for how a dumb version of Manic Miner of Manic Miner might look, I ended up with Manic Miner 101. It is not really aimed at "you lot" (used affectionately) in that it's rather simple. Still, why not give it a go and let me know what you think. The start is basic knowledge and skills so the levels are rather bare to give focus to a single task in hand. Gradually, they build up and are a bit more fun and better decorated. https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/1116173685

It was fun to make that version. I have 20 all new levels that I put together over the last few days of new year idleness. It's geared more at introducing the game slowly although I added some harder levels towards the end. It is called, Manic Miner 101. I've a little tidying up todo and then I'll share it. It deviates from standard miner slightly with conveyors in both directions including switches to change direction, but kind of harmless. I'll post here when I share it. The levels are a bit plain looking but I am hoping that it will help people focus on game play. I tried it out on my wife last night and she gave up after a few levels but my 8 year old finished it.

I finally pressed "Share" on this on "Manic Miner 2" - Schultze - reprogrammed in Scratch. https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/1113445840 Note: Scratch seems to be having problems with the "cloud Variables" so the global scores don't get saved at the moment. Hopefully they will fix it soon. @jetsetdanny - I tried to do every level the same way that you completed them in your YouTube video. It's funny as I was doing them quite differently on some caverns myself and some of your lines are definitely on the hard side to pull off. There is just 1 level where I was not able to repeat what you did; "Hilfe! Der Kong aus dem Wald". Jumping back up from the top right to the bottom left key doesn't work distance wise for me. Willy seems to walk on air probably due to wrap around issues on the real engine. Other than that, I could mostly repeat things (with enough lives - haha). While this game is a little on the ugly side of things, its quite fun too. Anyway thanks for the great resources and Schultze if you are out there, thanks for making the original!

Here is what I have so far. Almost there... Might be able to finish it next weekend. All the screens are done. Just got to tidy things up a bit and make the title screen etc.

What do folks think of Cavern 16 with title "Die Roboter kommen" in Manic Miner 2? That's the one with the hidden keys and the hidden portal with 2 fake portals. It also has fake keys. I think the fake keys and hidden keys are kind of fun but the hidden portal is a little much as you have to be prepared to die to find it where it is placed. I decided to keep it hidden until all the keys are collected and then let it flash but heavily ghosted so you may or may not notice it initially. I know that is not exactly a spectrum feature but I think the hidden portal concept is interesting but cruel where it is placed at least on that level.

Currently I am remaking Manic Miner 2 (schultze version) in Scratch using the engine I created before. Not that I think that is the best game or anything but (it does reuse a lot of the graphics which is a big pain point so helps me) and it does abuse the MM engine quite a lot with jumping through screens every which way, jumping through walls to get keys, infinite falls, paper only blocks etc, etc. I've got the first 13 levels working so far. Questioning my sanity along the way but its also quite fun to try to figure out how to recreate some of the behaviour. So @jetsetdanny, if you are wondering why that walkthrough video on youtube is getting all the views recently, that would be me I guess. haha.

Well, one thing is for sure. This version of Jet Set Willy is brilliant. The music is great and some of the artwork is amazing. Very cool.

Awesome! Looking forward to trying this out. My 8 year found Jet Set Willy for the first time yesterday and he was playing it on the laptop while I was working. He was playing a Javascript emulator version that he found. I was highly amused.

Excellent. Thanks for the reply @Jet Set Willie, especially regarding hiding as it cleared up a lot of confusion I had. It took a while to click. I'll be back to this. Currently, I'm playing Manic Miner 2 when I have the time and that game has opened me up to the joys of a harder game as it has infinite lives turned on by default. Actually, I think I will start another thread on that game and not derail this thread. But thanks for the tips...

I'm definitely not complaining about the game being hard. It is the creator's vision. For this game, I see where you are coming from with that rewind feature. I got to the airport with all my lives but so far have not been able to get the right timing for the ride up that escalator.