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Advanced engine needed  : The latest GZDoom release which you can find
                         here: http://svn.drdteam.org/gzdoom/
Primary purpose         : Single play
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Title                   : Commander Keen 2.5D: The Quest for Spot's Collar
                         Alpha Test Release
Filename                : CK25Da.zip
Release date            : May 30,2009
Author                  : William Elliott Waterman
                         (VikingBoyBilly/PaganRaven)
Email Address           : [email protected]
Other Files By Author   : Episode 1 of Fruitbowl is coming soon >=)

Description             : This zip file includes two pk3's:
                         Q4CollarAlpha.pk3 and KEENDATA.pk3.  Be sure to
                         load them both in order to play correctly (run
                         GZDOOM from a command line rather than trying to
                         drag and drop them both in)

                         This is a game for the GZDOOM Source port using
                         the Universal Doom Map Format (UDMF).  All
                         content in the game is entirely new, so it may be
                         possible to run this with an Iwad other than
                         doom2.wad, but I never really experimented with
                         it so just be safe with doom2.wad.

                         This game stars Commander Keen of old-school PC
                         sidescrolling fame and his friend Marta as they
                         explore planet Gloogulus Prime searching for
                         Spot's stolen collar before he gets put to sleep
                         in an intergalactic alien pound.  You get a basic
                         neural stunner for a weapon and you can jump
                         pretty high.  There's also very little wind
                         resistance so you have great control in the air
                         as well.  Gloogulus's gravity also keeps you
                         airborne for a slightly longer period of time
                         than that of Earth's.  You cannot drown, so
                         don't worry about being under the yellow water
                         for too long.

                         Like the original Commander Keen games, you can
                         make use of a Pogo (or in Marta's case Moon
                         Shoes) to let you jump even higher.  You can go
                         into pogo mode by pressing alt-fire, so make sure
                         you have that key configured to something.  Try
                         it out, it's quite fun.  You can get out of pogo
                         mode by pressing altfire again or by pressing
                         fire (but doing the latter will use up a stun
                         charge)

                         You can collect candy for points and 100 purple
                         fruits for a 1up but at this early stage of
                         development they are meaningless.

                         Oh, and one more thing: Like the original
                         Commander Keen games, you have only ONE HIT
                         POINT!  So watch your back out there ;)

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                         *|================================|*
                         *|-------------STORY:-------------|*
                         *|================================|*
                         ************************************

                         The year is 1991.  After finally killing his
                         arch-nemesis, Mortimer McMire, during an epic
                         clash that would decide that would decide the
                         fate of the Universe, nine-year old boy genius
                         Billy Blaze, AKA Commander Keen, continues to
                         work diligently in his lab.  Commander Keen has
                         gone on many more interstellar adventures since
                         he saved the Universe.  Some of which are more
                         believable than others.

                               One day Billy was playing fetch with his pet
                         yorp Spot.  He accidently threw the stick into
                         the thick bushes in his neighbor's yard.  "Wait
                         here while I go get it boy" Billy said to spot
                         just before he went to retrieve it. But before
                         Billy could dive into the bushes, he felt
                         something heavy land on top of him and he hit the
                         ground.  "Tag, you're it!"  It was Marta, the
                         annoying girl who just moved into this house with
                         her family a few weeks ago.  Marta is new in the
                         neighbor hood and they've been having playdates
                         because their moms thought it would be a good
                         idea.  But Marta doesn't quite get that Billy
                         doesn't enjoy her company.  Or perhaps she
                         understands perfectly and gets entertainment from
                         annoying him.  Marta has an IQ of 313 and a
                         laboratory of her own, and Billy secretly resents
                         the fact that someone else is around who can
                         rival his intelligence.  But she is by far better
                         to have around than Mortimer McMire.

                               "Is this what you're looking for?"  Marta
                         grabs the stick before Billy can grasp it.  "I
                         don't get what the big deal is." So she threw
                         it on the roof.  Billy was steaming mad and
                         chased after her, but she kept running a step
                         ahead of Billy because he was 'it' and she
                         wanted to prove how long she could go without
                         being tagged back.  She climbed into a tree, but
                         Billy used his pogo to land on the branch just
                         above her and tagged her back.  "Now can I have
                         my stick back?"  "Okay, but I don't see how
                         it's better than any other old twig."  Marta
                         strapped on her super moon shoes that she found
                         while exploring the moon's craters and jumped on
                         the roof.  She threw the stick down to Billy and
                         he ran back to his own yard with it.

                         "Spot!  Here boy!"  But spot wasn't there.
                         Billy found a slip in spot's doghouse printed in
                         Standard Galactic Alphabet: "Due to an illegal
                         lack of owner identification, the Galactic Animal
                         Control Association has impounded the yorp found
                         on this planet.  If the owner wishes to claim
                         official custody of this animal, please come to
                         the Galactic Pound Station with a collar and tag
                         identifying ownership of this creature before he
                         is put to sleep."  Billy screamed in a fit of
                         rage: "But Spot had his collar on!"  At that
                         moment Billy noticed the alien ion tracker was
                         blinking.  Billy flipped on the display and it
                         showed him a flying saucer that hovered above
                         spot for a brief moment, beamed the collar off
                         his eye-stalk, and flew away with it.  Then a
                         second, completely different spacecraft came,
                         beamed Spot aboard, and left a note under the
                         doghouse.  "All this happened while chasing
                         after Marta!?"

                         Billy could just walk down to the local pet shop
                         and buy a new collar, but he was short $1.39 and
                         he didn't want to explain to his mom that his
                         dog is an alien and other aliens stole his
                         collar.  So Billy decided to chase after the
                         aliens that took Spot's collar and bring it back
                         to the Galactic Pound Station.  The ion trail
                         left by the aliens that came recently led to
                         planet Gloogulus Prime in the Gloog system.
                         Billy hopped on board the
                         Bean-with-Bacon-Megarocket, put it on auto-pilot,
                         and sat back to play a few million rounds of
                         paddle wars because the Gloog system was in
                         another galaxy and it was going to be a long
                         ride.  But just as he was a hundred thousand
                         lightyears from Sol he heard a noise in the back
                         engine room.  He opened the door to find Marta
                         cramped in the back space.  "I saw what happened
                         to your dog while we were playing tag.  I always
                         wanted to see the Gloog system, so I thought I'd
                         tag along"  Billy was furious, but turning back
                         now would set his trip back too far, so he had to
                         deal with it.

                               After a very long and annoying ride for Billy
                         which didn't end with him breaking his all-time
                         high-score on paddle-war like he hoped, the
                         Bean-With-Bacon-Megarocket finally settled and
                         landed on Gloogulus Prime.  When Billy looked
                         over to the end of the nearby bridge, he noticed
                         an exit sign written in Standard Galactic
                         Alphabet.  But this is not the Milky Way Galaxy.
                         How could whoever lives here possibly know SGA?
                         And why would they want to steal Spot's collar?
                         Billy and Marta step out of the
                         Bean-With-Bacon-Megarocket to search for clues
                         behind this mystery...

Additional Credits to   : CodeImp for giving me DoomBuilder II to make this
                         with =D
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* What is included *

New levels              : 3
Sounds                  : Yes
Music                   : Yes
Graphics                : Yes
Dehacked/BEX Patch      : No
Demos                   : No
Other                   : No
Other files required    : None


* Play Information *

Game                    : Doom
Single Player           : Designed for
Cooperative 2-4 Player  : Player starts only
Deathmatch 2-4 Player   : Player starts only
Other game styles       : Try turning on chase mode and fullscreen for more
                         of a platformer effect ;)
Difficulty Settings     : Not implemented


* Construction *

Base                    : New from scratch
Build Time              : Around six months (but it's not like I was
                         working round the clock every day)
Editor(s) used          : DoomBuilder II, SLumpEd, Photoshop, MSPaint,
                         FLStudio, GoldWave
Known Bugs              : - Once in a while the game totally gargs when
                         using the pogo/moon shoes. I have no idea how to
                         get around this. But it's only occasional, so
                         just be careful when jumping around.
                         - Getting 100 fruits does not give you an extra
                         life, it just stays at 100 and you can't get any
                         more fruit Bloody
                         - Right now all the aliens only have a
                         front-side angle. This isn't so much a "bug"
                         as it is incompleteness. I'll finish them up
                         someday (But some of them aren't even
                         necessary)
                         - The pogo functions wonderfully on solid floor,
                         but using it on top of objects will not allow you
                         to do a pogo jump. This is because the pogo
                         states are programmed to make you jump up when
                         the difference between the player's z height and
                         the floor beneath is zero, and because objects
                         are above the floor, you are still above the
                         floor when you land on them Dead Again.
May Not Run With...     : Zdoom.  Skulltag.  Anything other than the latest
                         GZDoom releases.


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