• Millie and Molly

    From Christian Jacob@2:240/1120.34 to All on Sunday, April 05, 2020 22:59:14
    Hey y'all :)

    I don't know what you guys are doing right now. I however - although still trying to get at least 30 hours of work for my company done per week - have plenty of time to kill with house keeping and family-business.

    I am used to spending a lot of time with my little daughter (almost 4 y/o), but
    for the last couple of weeks, that amount of time increased A LOT. Not only because child care facilities have been closed three weeks ago, but also because my wife wouldn't be able to handle her on her own so that I can still be working as much as I was used to before.

    Well... and we all have hobbies. Sort of. Don't we?

    When I don't work on building a 1:8 model of a Pontiac Firebird Trans-AM (and you know what model I am talking about, do you?), I am focussed on my little collection of C64s here. Recently I received a Commodore 1084P color monitor which the owner told me was still working fine. Well... it is not. At. All. Except for the Power LED and a mean noise probably coming from a broken flyback
    transformer.

    I have been successful in disassembling the whole thing and ordered a replacement part. Wish me luck in cleaning up the mess I found in the case and re-assembling it. ;-)

    Also, in this time, I found out that my daughter actually loves the C64. I was looking for games that she could actually play with me together and found out about Millie and Molly (https://carletonhandley.itch.io/millie-and-molly). It is a beautiful puzzle game that - at least for the introductory levels worked pretty well for my little daugher. Even though she has a hard time using the Competition Pro, this game allows for rewinding almost endlessly so that you can do mistakes and don't have to start completely over and there's no timelimit... even the "monsters" in the first couple of levels are actually teddies that you simple sort of "collect".

    Unfortunately, these levels only exist so that you can get used to the game mechanics. Once you're done learning, it gets pretty complicated really fast.

    Does anyone of you know a game like this but with simple levels... and much of them?


    Greetings,
    Christian

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  • From Felix Palmen@3:770/3 to All on Monday, April 06, 2020 00:23:15
    * Christian Jacob <nospam.Christian.Jacob@p34.f1120.n240.z2.binkp.net>:
    [Millie and Molly]
    Unfortunately, these levels only exist so that you can get used to the game mechanics. Once you're done learning, it gets pretty complicated really fast.

    Does anyone of you know a game like this but with simple levels... and much
    of
    them?

    I can't answer your question, but I agree this game is a nice work of
    art and I wonder how a little child would understand the graphical
    "rewind" effect, mimicking what a VHS recorder would do? Anyways, maybe
    you would like to test a "trained" version <https://csdb.dk/release/?id=187650>, download available on the
    well-known boards? :)

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  • From Christian Jacob@2:240/1120.34 to Felix Palmen on Monday, April 06, 2020 10:48:48
    Hallo Felix!

    06 Apr 20 00:23, Felix Palmen schrieb an All:

    * Christian Jacob <nospam.Christian.Jacob@p34.f1120.n240.z2.binkp.net>:

    [Millie and Molly]
    Unfortunately, these levels only exist so that you can get used to the
    game mechanics. Once you're done learning, it gets pretty complicated
    really fast.

    Does anyone of you know a game like this but with simple levels... and
    much of them?

    Anyways, maybe you would like to test a "trained" version <https://csdb.dk/release/?id=187650>, download available on the
    well-known boards? :)

    Great suggestion. Thanks! I will definetly have a look at it. :)


    Greetings,
    Christian

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