Re: [Tuxmath-devel] Changing TuxMath

[Samuel H. <cri...@ge...>]

On Friday 14 September 2001  8:47am, Jacob Greig wrote:
> --- Samuel Hart <cri...@ge...>
>
> > wrote:
> >My wife feels that it may be too soon after this horrible thing for us to
> >decide. She feels that we may want to wait, giving ourselves a bit of time
> >and hopefully some sense of closure before we make this decision.
>
> <snip>
>
> >So what we may want to do is put this project on hold for a bit, and
> > return to it sometime in the future, when we feel ready, and
>
> make the decision then.
>
> I think this is a good idea aslo.
>
> something i thought of was that the comits look like they could pass as
> spit or something. mAybe we should change the animation so that instead of
> the cities blowing up, they just get covered in blue goop (from the comits)

That's a good idea.... But we would probably want to avoid calling the comets 
"spit" for ... erm... obvious reasons ;-)

> but I agree we should give it some time before we decide 100% what we want
> to do.

I am actually feeling much better today than I did yesterday (I've been at 
the computer most of the day, and have been playing Rune for a bit of it 
[ug... I was hoping for more from this game ;-) ] so I've avoided the TV).

I think that we will probably be able to recover from this shock, and make 
appropriate decisions within a week or so.

> >If we do put it on hold, there are several other possible projects in the
> >pipeline we could work on. There are many ECD (early childhood
> > development) titles we've been talking about for a few months now, and we
> > could work on them.
>
> would this include "Catch the Goblin?" :)

We could do that one....

The only problem there is that I am yet to contact the creator of the song we 
wanted to use for it (and, this is kind of important, as most of you know, 
because the game was really inspired from the song ;-)

I have tried, but I can't seem to get through to this Skaven person (if 
anyone else has had any success, please let me know).

> >again... And possibly with time, I wont feel ashamed I made the city
> >animations for TuxMath that I did.
>
> dont beat yourself up. the animation was inocent enough, and you (no one)
> had any way of anticpating this.

Thx. Yeah I'm sure there are a lot of designers who have been faced with 
equally (or even more) depressing thoughts because they have created things 
that hit so close (I'd imagine that whomever made the final levels in Twisted 
Metal Black is probably wracked with grief over the whole thing.... And I 
would be most surprised if the levels weren't removed in the upcoming 
internet version...)

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