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 {{Quote|This little book being a thing that I recently found, a nostalgic look back on all my notes and reviews based on playing the game before it was finished and released.|[[Jason Wilson]]}}
+==Transcript==
+===Cover===
+Fri 9-1-98<br />'''12 Days''' (circled)
+===Need to outline===
+*H.P. of weapon on a monster
+*Level map = routes
+*Coin system = buy weapons etc
+*More attacks
+*Monster attacks = orchestration
+*Learning curve = help gargoyles.
+*Distinctive pattern of play = clues.
+*65% action, 35% puzzles
+*Need to design the shop!!
+*New weapon effects
+*Q.A. testing
+*Look at map redesign
+===MediEvil Tues. Jan.===
+*30th June without Time Device/Great Machine.
+*Big levels: Sleeping Village, Haunted Ruins, Pools of the Dead
+*Dragons Graveyard is lost?
+*Ant Caves<br />Asylum Grounds<br />↓<br />Pools of the Ancient Dead<br />Enchanted Earth<br />↓
+===MediEvil Meeting===
+*3 Months!!
+*Too many boulders.
+*5 levels for the Disc.
+*No Scarecrow Fields.
+*Nina is gathering info for unfinished work.
+*Mike is helping James.
+*More of a plot depth to the game.
+===City of Madness===
+*A.G. = Paul/Sam
+*A.C. = Matt/James
+*T.D. = Matt/James
+*??? =
+*G.G. = James/Matt
+*S.V. = Paul/Sam
+*P.G. = Derek
+*Z.L. = Derek
+*D.C. = Chris
+*C.H. = Chris
+*??? = Matt/James X
+*??? = Dan/Sam
+===The Great Machine===
+*The Switch (|) has big clipping problems.
+*The skull door teleports need textures.
+*When teleporting there needs to be an effect or a camera track to suggest Dan is being sucked through pipes.
+*The conductor top needs textures.
+*Not too happy with the textures on the big skull at the start of the level.
+*The carriage on the train needs proper textures.
+*Dan can easily fall off the train.
+*The train carriage can merge with the train when the train stops moving.
+*It is hard to see if you have actually moved a level (as the camera is top down). Movable platform needs sorting (it is black at the moment).
+*Metal gauntlets that move conveyor belts need textures.
+*The big chain on the first lift needs re-texturing.
+*Big wooden wheels need re-texturing.
+*The animated chimneys need to be enlarged - they look too puny at the moment.
+*Boilers need to breathe out fire when active.
+*The warp zones are a bit displaced.
+*Dan is far too slippy!
+*Trainwheel texture needs to be alpha channel.
+*Do not like the fire that comes out of the mouth of the boy robot machine.
+*Box robot machine needs proper textures.
+*Edges of floor surfaces are a fookin nightmare!!!
+*Pounding up/down drums need textures
+====Improvements====
+*Better Dan controls
+*Cut sequences
+*Secrets = mechanisms
+*Devices that must take effect on other levels
+===The Lake===
+*The L shape mechanism needs to be redesigned as I do not like the current machine.
+*When Dan falls into the water (off a roadwalk)
+**<s>Is it possible to have a water splash? Without one it looks like he is falling into space.</s>
+*Should only be able to kill the barnacles when they open up.
+*If Dan dies by being pushed of a boardwalk by a jumping fish then he should not be replaced in the fish's path only to be knocked off again.
+*On my demo the warp zones are incorrect.
+*When a crystal machine is activated there should be a cut scene showing the machine coming to life - also can we show the whirlpool slowing down.
+*Like the crystal glow.
+*Barnacles need textures.
+*There does not appear to be a portcullis where there should be.
+*You cannot kill the barnacles!
+*Toadmen do not seem to protect themselves.
+====Lake ideas====
+*Have to find the crystals to plug into the machines that stop the <s>lake</s> whirlpool.
+*Eyeball barnacles
+**If one of these eyes should see for longer than 2 seconds, it will shriek thus alerting the toadmen.
+*Turret barnacle
+**Once in its sights this barnacle will open up like a turret and fire away
+*Once alerted toadmen will pull themselves up from the ground in order to attack. Is this possible?
+*Toadmen will be associated with their designated barnacles.
+===Pumpkin Gorge===
+*Moshybase * stem colour = create texture
+===Time Device===
+*Negotiating the clockface platform; section is too easy, need to make this harder
+*Texture map on the huge clock puzzle needs reorienting - texture map on the door clock needs replacing.
+*Are the flying eyeballs going to fire electric bolts at Dan?
+*Do not like the rune key holder section before the rotation floor disc before the planet.
+*When you tell the time on the big clock there should be a sound effect (or a visual effect) to tell you you have activated 'something' - not a cut scene!
+*Cuckoo clock monsters need a lot of work.
+*Killing the eye balls appears to crash the game.
+*Electricity does not appear when the crystal is destroyed - no rune key.
+===Pools of the Ancient Dead===
+*High jump potion
+*To reach the dragon's graveyard, Dan has to collect shields to give to the boatman.
+*A ??? undead knight controls the level - Collecting the shields weakens his power - if so desired the player can destroy the knight once all of the shields have been collected. This will lead to Dan getting the Dragon Dan potion.
+===The Ghost Ship===
+*Can we have the sky moving to suggest the ship is travelling.
+====More onto The Ghost Ship====
+*confusing gameplay
+*camera problems
+*Changes to Time Device + The Great Machine should just be based around alterations with new game controls. No new elements!
+*Zarok's lair = get feedback from the others incl. knight horse monster
+===Demo Disc===
+*You can fall through the terrain on Cemetery Hill (the paths).
+*Are we going to have animated grass fringe on the cliff edges.
+*In the church I do not like the geometry of the columns on either side of the hall.
+====Imps====
+*Throghout a level there are a big number of dead pyres - an imp runs through these areas on a pre set course setting fire to the pyres which when lit will impeed Dan's progress.
+====Monster moves / combat====
+*Zombies
+*Shadow demons } Strategies
+*Imps
+*More substance? = level interaction in connection with other levels
+*More plot
+*More use of potions (invisible potion).
+*Channel of water - something floating at end of water - have to get to object.
+*Deforming ground.
+*Items spread out across levels that allow other sections to open up.
+====Potions====
+*Dragon dan (defense raises/fire breath)
+*Serpent
+*Smart bomb
+*Shrink potion
+*Firefly target
+*Invisible (for a limited period monsters cannot see you)
+*Skeleton Key (can pass through one door only)
+*Levitate (Dan can float upward but is unable to move - only jump)
+*Hit point reveal (reveals enemies hit points every time they are hit)
+*Name reveal (enemies name appears on screen)
+*Body shield aura (protects Dan from being hurt)
+*Body shield aura 2 ( "" but also hurts enemies)
+*Various weapon power ups
+*Power-ups
+*???
+===Scarecrow Fields===
+*Scarecrows should jump a lot?
+*Change hay carts (static) to hay stacks
+*Corn killer sprite (tail?) design
+*Scarecrow only killed with swords and not projectiles.
+====Potions====
+*Turn doors transparent (Allows Dan to see through doors but not pass through)
+*Freeze enemies (Very limited freeze effect)
+*Free mechanisms (Same as above but on mechanical problems such as firing statues)
+*Longer jump (to reach far away areas)
+*Destroy demonic plant life
+[[Category:Sources]]