selfdelmer Posted July 27, 2025 Report Share Posted July 27, 2025 Hi All, I've been working on a reproduction of the ZX Spectrum's Manic Miner in Gamemaker 2. Not sure whether to complete it or not, but here's a preview. Maybe I should create some new levels? Any comments? Regards, Paul. Jet Set Willie, UncleWan, jetsetdanny and 1 other 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jetsetdanny Posted July 29, 2025 Report Share Posted July 29, 2025 Hi Paul, Welcome to the forum! 🙂 What platform does your game run on? Is it PC? My personal response to your question about whether to complete the original game or to create new levels is: first complete the original game and then complete a whole new set of 20 levels. That's the more ambitious suggestion. If it's too ambitious, my answer would be: just create a whole set of new levels or, in other words, a brand-new game based on MM. That's just my personal preference, because my particular focus is new games for the ZX Spectrum (I don't have enough time to also embrace other platforms) created using the exquisite MM and JSW game engines. It'll be interesting to see if you will get any other replies and, if so, whether they will advise you to go in the direction of recreating the original or rather creating something new... Regards, Daniel selfdelmer, Spider and UncleWan 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SymbolShift Posted July 29, 2025 Report Share Posted July 29, 2025 Looks pretty good to me. Would love to see some new levels! UncleWan, selfdelmer and jetsetdanny 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jet Set Willie Posted July 30, 2025 Report Share Posted July 30, 2025 Hi and welcome! 🙂 My suggestion is please make new levels! The original game has been seen many times. 🙂 UncleWan, jetsetdanny and selfdelmer 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UncleWan Posted July 30, 2025 Report Share Posted July 30, 2025 New levels please！😄 selfdelmer, Jet Set Willie and jetsetdanny 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CPL Posted August 4, 2025 Report Share Posted August 4, 2025 Ultimately - do whatever it is that means you're having fun doing it. GM2 is great fun to play with. That's what I built Jet Set Willy Scrolling Edition in. Personally, I would recreate the originals to check the mechanics are all solid within your engine, then make new ones. Jet Set Willie, SymbolShift, jetsetdanny and 1 other 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jet Set Willie Posted August 6, 2025 Report Share Posted August 6, 2025 I think the same what CPL says. By no means I don´t mean to put you off from making an identical new Manic Miner, if that´s what you want to do, go ahead and have fun! 🙂 Spider, jetsetdanny and selfdelmer 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
selfdelmer Posted August 9, 2025 Author Report Share Posted August 9, 2025 Thanks all. It's runs on PC, but could run on most platforms I think as Gamemaker is multi-platform. I'll complete it to replicate the original and then add new levels as that seems to be the general consensus. Regards. Spider, jetsetdanny and Jet Set Willie 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jetsetdanny Posted August 9, 2025 Report Share Posted August 9, 2025 Fantastic! Do keep us updated on your progress 🙂 Spider 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jet Set Willie Posted August 10, 2025 Report Share Posted August 10, 2025 Nice! 🙂 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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