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The graphics suck, so you don't need (or want) screenshots. If you whine enough I'll give them to you anyway. All the music is ripped from whatever, but, of course, all the credit for it that I can muster will be given. I'm recording my own sound effects because so far it's been genuinely enjoyable and some fairly convincing stuff has come out of it.
As far as planning, the first two worlds are completely planned out on paper, to the point that I can just MZX the stuff without deviating or rewriting anything. The third world is floating around my head in pieces, much the same way as at the end of "The Neverending Story." The game is a simple MZX adventure, but I'm probably throwing in a better-than-average RPG engine so I can double the play time with random battles and neato bosses. Since your party is going to be three unchanging characters the whole way through, it shouldn't be a ridiculously massive amount of work.
Since the game started as a practice effort to see what I could do by completely ad-libbing it from the start, and has gradually turned into a completely pre-planned work, it's going to look really weird- especially at the beginning. (The title I came up with by stringing together a couple of completely noncompatable words) The story gets far more serious by the middle of the first world, and the end of the first world, I think the characters and story has matured drastically (to bad the graphics have not).
As far as the plot is really concerned, it's a little more complex than most MZX games manage. It's also silly (read: irrational) as all hell. Time travel plays the greatest role, as well does the gruesome, but not always senseless, murder of characters- often cartoony, seemingly invulnerable cliches- that really don't deserve it. But that's mainly in the first world, anyway, from what I've got planned on paper. After that the main characters are subjected to endless embarrassing moments and are constantly forced to make amends for the deeds they were forced to do in making amends. I also expect the Illuminati to jump in at some point, just for the freaking hell of it, and also because I finished Deus Ex not so long ago and it poisoned my brain with botched ideas for conspiracy theories.
By the way, if anyone wants to do anything, just ask and I'll probably give you my work. (As long as you promise not to just give it away ^_^). There's my naive sense of trust in people to act like civilized human beings, again.
I suppose posting this vague and drawn-out summary will do nothing but decrease my chances of ever actually finishing the game. I have high hopes, though- thirty solid boards is by far the most work I've ever completed in an MZX project, and I started in early November. I guess we'll see how it goes. As Kuru said before I ruthlessly mocked him, let the lack of comments begin.
