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From: erkyrath@netcom.com (Andrew Plotkin)
Subject: [CD] various comments
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Name: Uh, too late. There was discussion, and the discussion died down. I 
picked the suggestion I liked best, which conveniently got the most 
positive comments in the discussion. "Great Underground Adventures" it 
is. 

(I expect to use this mode of decision a lot on this project. If you have 
thoughts on something, post them.)

Audio: Ok, we could fit a reasonable amount of audio. I think this is in 
the province of the document team (Neil, Neil, and Eileen). If they come 
up with stuff that could be rendered in audio (as well as text files), we 
can go for it.

Including lots of games but only focussing on 15-30: I would feel strange 
about giving money to some authors but not others.

(BTW, the current plan is to give a share of the profits to each game 
author and each person who worked directly on the CD. One share per 
person, max. Nothing for authors of interpreters, interpreter ports, etc. 
Sorry. It's the games that are the point of this thing -- note that we 
have a working list of games that I'm pursuing, but not interpreter 
versions. Besides, the expected profits are well below $100 per share, 
for a run of 250 discs. Money is not going to be a large thing here.)

Hints: I wish that no game had hints. I am not in the majority on this 
subject. We will be including hints. :-)

ftp.gmd.de has a lot of hint files on these games, but probably doesn't 
have all of them. Some are hints, some are walkthoughs. We could just dump 
them on. Or we could try to make them consistent, which essentially means 
rewriting all of them. (Or we could change our minds and not include 
hints.) Thoughts?

If we include them as is, we would certainly need a note like "Caution: 
These hint files were contributed by many people. We make no guarantee of 
quality, accuracy, or freshness."

--Z




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