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 '''Website:''' [http://www.dummyduck.com DummyDuck.com]<br />
 '''Related games:''' none
-}}{Disambig|A-J Games|Ninja Tuck| or ''[[Ninja Tuck II]]''}}
+}}{{Disambig|A-J Games|Ninja Tuck| or ''[[Ninja Tuck II]]''}}
 In the world of Yurik Nestoly, characters are small, and they attack to the right. To both these ends, ''Ninja'' is probably the most distinctively Nestoly game. It's the rare Game-Maker game focused solely on action, as the player is expected to push through a flood of enemies by brute force alone.

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 '''Website:''' [http://www.dummyduck.com DummyDuck.com]<br />
 '''Related games:''' none
-}}In the world of Yurik Nestoly, characters are small, and they attack to the right. To both these ends, ''Ninja'' is probably the most distinctively Nestoly game. It's the rare Game-Maker game focused solely on action, as the player is expected to push through a flood of enemies by brute force alone.
+}}{Disambig|A-J Games|Ninja Tuck| or ''[[Ninja Tuck II]]''}}
 The game is very stylish, with its small-as-possible, pixel-perfect people and its dainty dollhouse world. As in Irem's ''Kung-Fu Master'' or any number of walk-and-punch games, the enemies are largely cannon fodder; strike them once, and they dramatically fly off the screen at an angle. With such small characters occupying such a small portion of the screen, the effect here is even more dramatic than elsewhere -- adding to the game's charm and lending visceral significance to its microscopic scale.

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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:''' none
-}}[[Category:Pending articles]]<center>'''FULL ENTRY COMING SOON!'''</center>
+}}In the world of Yurik Nestoly, characters are small, and they attack to the right. To both these ends, ''Ninja'' is probably the most distinctively Nestoly game. It's the rare Game-Maker game focused solely on action, as the player is expected to push through a flood of enemies by brute force alone.
 [[File:NinjaSprite.gif|center]]
-Tiny characters. It's cute how, as in ''Kung-Fu Master'', when you strike most opponents they diagonally fly off the screen.
+Let's talk about that single plane. As in other Nestoly games (''[[Stickman!!! Die]]'', ''[[Twister, argh!]]''), ''Ninja'' is a very flat thing. You run to the right, and plow through everything in your way. Level one employs something of a pagoda design, where when the level wraps around it drops the player down a level to keep going on a second plane, then a third. There are a few complications here that conspire to make ''Ninja'' less effective than it might be, even given the same materials.
-As in ''[[Stickman!!! Die]]'', a wide range of attacks; the stronger attacks totally obviate the weaker ones. All you need to use, really, is the laser.
+The character, you will remember, is basically designed to run and attack to the right. It's possible to attack left, but this is an afterthought; the animations don't account for it. Were all of the game's momentum in one direction (as in ''[[Dead Awakening]]''), this could work fine. Here, though, when the map drops down a level, it doesn't just keep going to the right; it starts to wrap around to the left. This means on every other level, our character basically runs backwards, shooting or slashing to the right with attacks materializing behind him. It also means, for the player, a sense of reverse progress. Even though we're clearly in a different space from before, it feels like we're retracing our steps.
-It picks up when you find the shuriken. Level two is way more interesting, with the cityscape. The clipping is a bit weird, with buildings not always solid where it seems like they should be, and solid where it seems like they shouldn't. Complicates leaping from roof to roof, which otherwise would seem like a secondary path or a strategic technique.
+More tangibly, though, is the game's employment of enemies, and the relationship that it fosters between the player and that opposition. There is no strategy to speak of; though all well-drawn and often imaginative, the enemies all exist on the same horizontal plane as the character. There is no real differentiation in their behavior; they either just sit there, progress steadily to the left, or move on arbitrary repeating patterns. As such, there is no reason for the player to differentiate in response, or really to do more than mash the buttons while running forward. The sprites are small and numerous, so at times they may overwhelm the player -- but all the player needs to do is just not be where the monsters are, then attack any that approach.
 == Story ==
 N/A
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 * '''''[http://www.aderack.com/game-maker/downloads/ninja.zip Ninja]''''' (93 kB)
+[[Category: Game-Maker games]]
 [[Category: Yurik Nestoly]]
 [[Category: Freeware]]

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-<blockquote>''Ninja'' is a side scroller game where you control a ninja who fights his way through a building.
 [[File:NinjaSprite.gif|center]]
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 Designed by Yurik Nestoly.
 == Availability ==

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 == Story ==
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 == Links ==
 <videoflash>4hKVnnzljBo</videoflash>

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	As in ''[[Stickman!!! Die]]'', a wide range of attacks; the stronger attacks totally obviate the weaker ones. All you need to use, really, is the laser.		As in ''[[Stickman!!! Die]]'', a wide range of attacks; the stronger attacks totally obviate the weaker ones. All you need to use, really, is the laser.

−	It picks up when you find the shuriken. Level two is way more interesting, with the cityscape.	+	It picks up when you find the shuriken. Level two is way more interesting, with the cityscape. The clipping is a bit weird, with buildings not always solid where it seems like they should be, and solid where it seems like they shouldn't. Complicates leaping from roof to roof, which otherwise would seem like a secondary path or a strategic technique.
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		+	As with navigation, combat involves no strategy to speak of. Enemies don't have particular attack patterns; they're just tossed at the player en masse, to overwhelm.