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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           : VikingBoyBilly@gmail.com
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:-------------|*
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                          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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