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Jill of the Jungle: Something I didn't know
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elecdude33
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PostPosted: Tue May 01, 2012 15:04    Post subject: Jill of the Jungle: Something I didn't know Reply with quote



Found this out through ModdingWiki. Go here for more information.

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PostPosted: Tue May 01, 2012 17:04    Post subject: Reply with quote

WHY DIDN'T I KNOW THIS???
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PostPosted: Tue May 01, 2012 18:45    Post subject: Reply with quote

Well, that's new. I'll have to work with that when I get home today.
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PostPosted: Tue May 01, 2012 20:53    Post subject: Reply with quote

whoooaaaat? This is a surprise indeed. I wouldn't have thought Jill had a feature like that, especially since, besides the quirky atmosphere and style, it feels like a rather sloppy program.
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PostPosted: Wed May 02, 2012 2:35    Post subject: Reply with quote

VikingBoyBilly wrote:
WHY DIDN'T I KNOW THIS???


Weirdest controls ever, but I look forward to seeing some new levels from anyone who can get the hang of it.
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PostPosted: Wed May 02, 2012 10:30    Post subject: Reply with quote

Commander Spleen wrote:
VikingBoyBilly wrote:
WHY DIDN'T I KNOW THIS???


Weirdest controls ever, but I look forward to seeing some new levels from anyone who can get the hang of it.


Yeah, it's not the most user friendly level editor. I'm thinking it was probably a development tool?
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PostPosted: Thu May 03, 2012 12:27    Post subject: Reply with quote

elecdude33 wrote:
Yeah, it's not the most user friendly level editor. I'm thinking it was probably a development tool?


Meets easter egg. Was this listed in any physical game documentation?
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PostPosted: Thu May 03, 2012 13:33    Post subject: Reply with quote

Keening_Product wrote:
elecdude33 wrote:
Yeah, it's not the most user friendly level editor. I'm thinking it was probably a development tool?


Meets easter egg. Was this listed in any physical game documentation?


ModdingWiki says it's undocumented and I'd never heard of its existence until I saw it mentioned on there...
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PostPosted: Sun May 20, 2012 4:31    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'm a bit late, but for the record I discovered the editor while I was porting the Xargon source code to SDL. It was commented out in Xargon, but I thought I'd try it anyway in Jill since they share so much code. Needless to say, I was pretty surprised when it worked Happy
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PostPosted: Mon May 21, 2012 16:41    Post subject: Reply with quote

Malvineous wrote:
I'm a bit late, but for the record I discovered the editor while I was porting the Xargon source code to SDL. It was commented out in Xargon, but I thought I'd try it anyway in Jill since they share so much code. Needless to say, I was pretty surprised when it worked Happy


More information comes up! Excellent.
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PostPosted: Thu Jul 05, 2012 18:20    Post subject: Reply with quote

Whaaa?? I had no idea Jill had this Garg
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 06, 2012 1:42    Post subject: Reply with quote

This would have been soooooo nice to know about 15 years ago.
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 25, 2012 13:08    Post subject: Reply with quote

I think my brain just melted.
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 27, 2012 9:06    Post subject: Reply with quote

Was just going through some old emails from 2005 that I'd exchanged with the author of a Jill of the Jungle website (http://members.tripod.com/classic_roach/id14.html) and one of our discussions was actually about this editor. I'd since completely forgotten about its existence and probably never realized its significance when we'd discussed it.

Anyway, the website's author sent me a copy she had of the internal editor's manual. Not sure who the author is or where it came from (Epic, I guess...), but is seems to cover the editor's functionality pretty well.

Have a download of it: http://spikenexus.rewound.net/misc/jotj/Editor.doc[/url]
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PostPosted: Sun Jul 29, 2012 9:37    Post subject: Reply with quote

Wow, so many long-largely-dormant users (two) have returned lately!

Spikenexus, thank you for uploading that!
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