Dead Awakening - Revision history

Azure at 01:34, 23 June 2021

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Aderack at 13:22, 20 January 2016

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Aderack at 03:04, 27 December 2015

2015-12-27T03:04:14Z

Aderack: /* Background */

2015-12-27T03:03:53Z

Background

Aderack: /* Archive status */

2015-10-22T18:45:33Z

Archive status

Aderack at 16:19, 16 July 2014

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Aderack: /* Links */

2014-06-22T19:14:09Z

Links

Aderack at 17:58, 9 April 2014

2014-04-09T17:58:27Z

Aderack at 17:57, 9 April 2014

2014-04-09T17:57:58Z

Aderack: /* Instructions */

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Instructions

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 == Links ==
-<videoflash>mdyxvarxgGQ</videoflash>
+<youtube>mdyxvarxgGQ</youtube>
 === Sites ===

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 '''Levels:''' 3 <br />
 '''Author:''' [[Sean McNulty]]<br />
-'''Website:''' [http://a.1asphost.com/evilash/mainset.htm Untitled Studio]<br />
+'''Website:''' [https://web.archive.org/web/20050927060528/http://a.1asphost.com/evilash/mainset.htm Untitled Studio] (archive.org)<br />
 '''Related games:''' N/A
 }}Melee and hand-to-hand combat are not a natural fit for RSD's engine. You can make them work, but "work" is the operative word. Most developers [[Vampire|never try]], or give up quickly, or not for lack of effort stick with a solution [[Gridline|that doesn't quite work]]. Combine this with Game-Maker's often strange collision handling, the limitations on character states and monster behavior, and a bit of eccentric scrolling, and a good close-combat action game can be hard to find.

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 : So download ''Dead Awakening'' and have a happy Halloween! (If it's still Halloween!)
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 == Archive History ==

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 : So download ''Dead Awakening'' and have a happy Halloween! (If it's still Halloween!)
-== Archive status ==
+[[Category: Needed - Availability]]
 In late 2011, a Google search for "Micfoforum" and "Game-Maker" turned up a very old (and since dismantled) site for Sean McNulty's "Untitled Studio". That site contained screenshots of the Game-Maker games ''Dead Awakening'' and ''[[Chad's Crazy Adventure]]'', and two possible Game-Maker games, ''[[Demonika]]'' and ''[[Monkey Mission: Project Replevin]]''. All download links were broken. None of these games were available.

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 <videoflash>mdyxvarxgGQ</videoflash>
 * [http://web.archive.org/web/20031123151947/http://igirthorn.tripod.com/ Shroud of False] (site of Matti Minkkinen)
 * [http://drivemouth.com/db/viewtopic.php?id=3379 Driving Board post]
 * [http://www.3dmm.com/showthread.php?p=984887 3D Movie Maker forum post]

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 In this game the character always faces, and attacks, to the right. That's okay, because it's a walk-and-punch game. Pretty much all of the action moves in one direction, chopping through a march of horrors, while the character leaves carnage in his wake.
-The knock-on effect is that you don't really see the seams in the way you would in a more ambitious project, concerned more with getting in its ideas at any cost than in cooperating with the tools at hand. Your character always idles to the right, because he's always facing to the right, because why would he turn around? The game only needs one attack animation and one key binding, because it only needs to cover one eventuality.
+The knock-on effect is that you don't really see the seams in the way you would in a more ambitious project, one concerned more with getting in its ideas at any cost than in cooperating with the tools at hand. Your character always idles to the right, because he's always facing to the right, because why would he turn around? The game only needs one attack animation and one key binding, because it only needs to cover one eventuality.
 Two-block-tall monsters continuously spawn from appropriate nooks, be they holes in a cabin wall or graves in the deep forest. Whack a monster, and unless there's a glitch the whole thing will melt down. Touch the spawn point, and shut it down. Again this works well, as the game never has to contend with unknown variables. There is no jumping; the character only walks on a fixed level, and so both blocks of his height will meet all monsters and spawn points evenly. The destruction of the spawn points adds to the sense of progress and forward momentum, which makes the simple walk-thwack design rather enjoyable.

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 '''Right arrow''' = go right
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 CAUTION: Sometimes, it takes more than one hit to kill a zombie...