Does anyone from the OBW project know if you have a general release date in mind?

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Chack out an awsome shareware game, MacBrickout:(url="http://"http://www.leapfrogsw.com")leapfrogsw.com(/url) I made the Mania Levels!

No, I don't think we can even begin to estimate that yet. Progress is constantly changing, and we can't tell for sure how long it will take.

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Your pet poodle is flying loop-de-loops over my microchips! The poodle is coming! The poodle is coming! (Don't ask )

It will be released sometime in the next 5 years.
I have no idea when.

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Measuring energy in kilowatt-hours is as stupid as measuring distance in knot-seconds.

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**It will be released sometime in the next 5 years.:)
I have no idea when.

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Hmmm...I have an idea. How about we release an obw sampler sometime soon, with just a few levels. Don't worry about the plot being in order, this is just to show our best levels off to the ferazel public. The hard thing will be putting them in order so they get progressively harder and it's possible for Ferazel to beat them. What do you think, aschaaf?

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Someone has to release SOMETHING soon!
I'm being far too productive at work, my house is semi-clean, and I even cooked supper last night. Save me before my family realizes how much time I waste playing FW!

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**Save me before my family realizes how much time I waste playing FW!;)
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Maybe you should try using MASCOT.

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Measuring energy in kilowatt-hours is as stupid as measuring distance in knot-seconds.

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Originally posted by aschaaf_86:
**Maybe you should try using MASCOT.
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I tried and it was too much like work. (Anything that takes that much effort I want to make $$ from.) Besides, the last time I did any sort of programming it was in Pascal and on punch cards. Now I just hire someone to do that stuff for me.
I'd be happy to Beta-test someone elses levels though.

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**(Anything that takes that much effort I want to make $$ from.)
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What about shareware worlds?

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Originally posted by MonsterLady:
**I'd be happy to Beta-test someone elses levels though.
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OK, when AVN sends me updated versions of some of his levels (which will be soon, I think), you can Beta-test what's been done so far.

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Measuring energy in kilowatt-hours is as stupid as measuring distance in knot-seconds.

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What about shareware worlds?

OK, when AVN sends me updated versions of some of his levels (which will be soon, I think), you can Beta-test what's been done so far.
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Hmm... how to justify being here....

I know! - try this on...

We all have our roles in life. My roll is being a "payer" of shareware fees (and Beta tester). All the rest of you can look forward to (eventually) collecting those shareware fees from the experience you've gained from making shareware worlds for FW. (How'd I do?)

As far as Beta-testing - Aren't AVN's levels supposed to be really tough?

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Really tough? Hell no! Thats an understatment! AVN's levels are REALLY REALLY DAMN TOUGH is more like it.

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**As far as Beta-testing - Aren't AVN's levels supposed to be really tough?
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Try them and see!

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Measuring energy in kilowatt-hours is as stupid as measuring distance in knot-seconds.

They aren't all that tough if you know how to do them... Except Plummit Summit. That's the last level in my Kingdom and it's insanely hard. The rest are more "puzzle" levels. Think carefully before you do anything. Especially in "The Surface".

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Your pet poodle is flying loop-de-loops over my microchips! The poodle is coming! The poodle is coming! (Don't ask )

AVN-Can I Beta-test OBW? I need some excuse to stop from being forced to clean out my 20 pound school binder and have played all the stuff on the addons section and discovered every secret in the full game. PLEASE, I'm actually starting to slack off on my ferazel playing.!!!!!!!!

I'm still waiting too.

Have to go on a road trip into the interior of BC very soon and some new FW levels will fill up those lonely nights in the hotel....

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Head over to (url="http://"http://www.frontiernet.net/~pschaaf/obw/levels.html")http://www.frontiern...obw/levels.html(/url) to get the levels.
The testing password will be mailed to you.

I can't send it to Ferazel Freak because I don't know his e-mail address.

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Measuring energy in kilowatt-hours is as stupid as measuring distance in knot-seconds.

......help.......me........
....dying.........

Levels.......too.......

.....haaaaaarrrrrdddddd.....

(Ferazel is assaulted by flying wraiths, falls into lava pool and dies yet again)

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Levels.......too.......
.....haaaaaarrrrrdddddd.....
(...)
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AVN- I think you should make your levels less hard.
MonsterLady- Try Circut City. It's AVN's least hard level, I think.

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Measuring energy in kilowatt-hours is as stupid as measuring distance in knot-seconds.

Yeah. I use my family as beta testers.

You have to keep in mind that levels you create are to be played by others, not by you. It's really not that fun playing your level. You know all the secrets. The fun is having others being puzzled for a while, that seeing them light up when the figure it out. You want to have them feeling good when they complete a level, not walking away with a headache. A good mixture of short, long, hard, easy, puzzle, neat works well. My experience with MASCOT has given me more respect for game developers. These guys can ceate well balance levels. That's hard to do, I see, because you have to be the mind of the developer and the player.

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**You want to have them feeling good when they complete a level, not walking away with a headache.
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AVN doesn't!

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Measuring energy in kilowatt-hours is as stupid as measuring distance in knot-seconds.

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**AVN doesn't!;)

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LOL! His levels get the "Total Carnage" rating.

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