Kozmo Kat - Revision history

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 == Links ==
-<videoflash>1lJC4K1MIe4</videoflash>
+<youtube>1lJC4K1MIe4</youtube>
 * '''[http://www.aderack.com/game-maker/java/kozmo.php Play ''Kozmo Kat'' online]'''

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 After an earlier wave of rediscoveries, on July 13 2011 Alan Caudel provided another archive of previously missing Game-Maker material, including the following:
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 * ''[[Alan!]]''
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 * ''[[Benny]]''
 * ''[[Bone!]]''
 * ''[[CGA Hell]]''
 * ''[[Doom]]''
 * ''[[Off The Page]]''
 * ''[[DD4: Canadian Boxing Day]]''
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 * ''[[Godzilla]]''
 * ''[[Hamsterman]]''
 * ''[[Jon '95]]''
 * ''[[Kozmo Kat]]''
 * ''[[The Legend of Budd]]''
 * ''[[Mr. Berkel Derkel!]]''
 * ''[[Mister Spiff IV]]''
 * ''[[Nathan Rocks]]''
 * ''[[Ninja]]''
 * ''[[Palladia: The Game]]''
 * ''[[Power Budd!]]''
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 * ''[[Ski]]''
 * ''[[Star Avenger]]''
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 * ''[[Star Avenger 4]]''
 * ''[[Star Wars]]''

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 * ''[[Bone!]]''
 * ''[[CGA Hell]]''
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 * ''[[Off The Page]]''
 * ''[[DD4: Canadian Boxing Day]]''
 * ''[[Godzilla]]''
 * ''[[Jon '95]]''
 * ''[[Kozmo Kat]]''
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 * ''[[Mister Spiff IV]]''
 * ''[[Ninja]]''
 * ''[[Palladia: The Game]]''
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 * ''[[Star Wars]]''
 * ''[[Stickman!!! Die]]''
 * ''[[Trees]]''
 * ''[[Twister, argh!]]''

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 After an earlier wave of rediscoveries, on July 13 2011 Alan Caudel provided another archive of previously missing Game-Maker material, including the following:
 * ''[[Alan!]]''
 * ''[[Alan B-Day]]''
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 * ''[[Bone!]]''
 * ''[[CGA Hell]]''
 * ''[[Doom]]''
 * ''[[Off The Page]]''
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 * ''[[The Legend of Budd]]''
 * ''[[Mr. Berkel Derkel!]]''
 * ''[[Mister Spiff IV]]''
 * ''[[Ninja]]''
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 * ''[[Ski]]''
 * ''[[Star Avenger]]''
 * ''[[Star Avenger III]]''
 * ''[[Star Avenger 4]]''
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 * ''[[Stickman!!! Die]]''
 * ''[[Trees]]''
 * ''[[Twister, argh!]]''
 * ''[[What the...?!?]]''
 == Links ==

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 '''Website:''' [http://www.dummyduck.com DummyDuck.com]<br />
 '''Related games:''' ''[[Dummy Duck]]''
-}}[[Category:Pending articles]]<center>'''FULL ENTRY COMING SOON!'''</center>
+}}Aspiring game artists go through a few stages. There's mastery of the tools, mastery of each constituent elements of design (composition, animation, sound, timing), and mastery of design as a language. Game-Maker makes it easy to leap in and put something together, without demanding mastery even of the tools. As you learn more about illustration and animation, you'll make better sprites and backdrops. As you learn more about the relationship between the player and a gameworld, you'll design better levels and think more about how you put things together. As you learn more about Game-Maker's peculiarities, you'll be able to get more out of the system instead of fighting it every step of the way.
 [[File:KozmoSprite.gif|center]]
 [[File:KozmoShot.gif|thumb|320px|Bedeviled by eggs, in level one of ''Kozmo Kat''.]]
+As Game-Maker games go, that's not such a big deal. Really, ''Kozmo Kat'' is a pretty solid effort. In another young artist's hands, it might be a defining achievement. For Caudel, though, bigger things would come.
 == Story ==
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 * '''''[http://www.aderack.com/game-maker/downloads/kozmo.zip Kozmo Kat]''''' (141 kB)
 [[Category: Alan Caudel]]
 [[Category: Freeware]]

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 Showing an early mastery of the tools, if not of game design in a broader sense.
 Lots of playing with Game-Maker's basic features: gravity, background animation, tiles changing on contact.
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 Less consideration to how the ideas will all work together. Moves that serve no purpose within the game as designed. (Hoverboard.) Enemies placed where they can't be netted. Important items requiring pickups, then running out, requiring the player to pick up multiples. The "shrink" move (duck, effectively) is odd, and limited in executions.
 Also experimenting with different styles.

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 Less consideration to how the ideas will all work together. Moves that serve no purpose within the game as designed. (Hoverboard.) Enemies placed where they can't be netted. Important items requiring pickups, then running out, requiring the player to pick up multiples. The "shrink" move (duck, effectively) is odd, and limited in executions.
-Reminiscent of other early games like ''[[A-J's Quest]]'' or ''[[Super Hamster]]''.
+Reminiscent of other users' early games, like ''[[A-J's Quest]]'' or ''[[Super Hamster]]''. Probably made at around the same period as Caudel's ''[[Hamsterman]]''.
 Also experimenting with different styles.

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	Less consideration to how the ideas will all work together. Moves that serve no purpose within the game as designed. (Hoverboard.) Enemies placed where they can't be netted. Important items requiring pickups, then running out, requiring the player to pick up multiples. The "shrink" move (duck, effectively) is odd, and limited in executions.		Less consideration to how the ideas will all work together. Moves that serve no purpose within the game as designed. (Hoverboard.) Enemies placed where they can't be netted. Important items requiring pickups, then running out, requiring the player to pick up multiples. The "shrink" move (duck, effectively) is odd, and limited in executions.
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		+	Reminiscent of other early games like ''[[A-J's Quest]]'' or ''[[Super Hamster]]''.

	Also experimenting with different styles.		Also experimenting with different styles.

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		+	Showing an early mastery of the tools, if not of game design in a broader sense.
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		+	Lots of playing with Game-Maker's basic features: gravity, background animation, tiles changing on contact.
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		+	Less consideration to how the ideas will all work together. Moves that serve no purpose within the game as designed. (Hoverboard.) Enemies placed where they can't be netted. Important items requiring pickups, then running out, requiring the player to pick up multiples. The "shrink" move (duck, effectively) is odd, and limited in executions.
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		+	Also experimenting with different styles.

	First stage has Double Dragon style 3/4 view lunar surface.		First stage has Double Dragon style 3/4 view lunar surface.
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	Third stage is sort of a downhill toboggan ride.		Third stage is sort of a downhill toboggan ride.

−	~~The "shrink" move (duck, effectively) is odd, and limited in executions.~~

−	~~Lots of playing with Game-Maker's basic features: gravity, background animation, tiles changing on contact.~~

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 == Story ==
 [[File:KozmoShot2.png|thumb|320px|Feline the heat, in level two of ''Kozmo Kat''.]]N/A
-== Instructions ==
+To move Kozmo Kat around, press the arrow keys in the direction you want him to go.
 Press UP to make him jump.
 To make him jump left or right, press "7" OR "9" on the numeric keypad.
 To use his jet board, press either the "+" or "-" key.