Robo-Wars - Revision history

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Acaudel at 05:50, 29 February 2016

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Acaudel: Added comments about the intended concept for the game.

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Added comments about the intended concept for the game.

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 * '''[http://www.aderack.com/game-maker/java/r-wars.php Play ''Robo-Wars'' online]'''

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 '''Website:''' [http://www.dummyduck.com DummyDuck.com]<br />
 '''Related games:''' N/A
-}}'''Not to be mistaken for Sherwood Forest Software's ''[[Robo Wars]]''.'''
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 With ''Robo-Wars'', Alan Caudel demonstrates then abandons a promising and original design before it really even gets started. Caudel is known for his scattershot experiments, pushing Game-Maker's potential a bit at a time and then moving on once he has learned what he set out to. Usually that knowledge turns up again, refined and restyled, in the context of a more ambitious project.

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 What we basically have here is a side-scrolling shooter with ''Robotron''-style controls (already a great fit for Game-Maker, only seldom used) and unusual gravity effects. Instead of using Game-Maker's built in gravity properties, Caudel has the character slowly idle downward -- a process that can be reversed through regular use of thrusters.
-Already the basic mechanics are sort of neat. What really sells the package, though, is the presentation. Visually, mixes geometric shapes; strong, solid colors with just a little shading; and sparse architecture. The effect is very clean, very bold, resembling a late-1980s arcade game. The game's one level is also distinguished by some interesting destructible terrain -- though RSD's characteristic "bumpy monster" syndrome dampens the effect somewhat.
+Already the basic mechanics are sort of neat. What really sells the package, though, is the presentation. Visually, the game mixes geometric shapes; strong, solid colors with just a little shading; and sparse architecture. The effect is very clean, very bold, resembling a late-1980s arcade game. The game's one level is also distinguished by some interesting destructible terrain -- though RSD's characteristic "bumpy monster" syndrome dampens the effect somewhat.
 ''Robo-Wars'' is a good start of something. There's not enough game here to know quite how it would have played out, but its snapshot of a world and its way of navigating that terrain echo with suggestion of what might have been.

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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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 * ''[[Godzilla]]''
 * ''[[Hamsterman]]''
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 * ''[[Kozmo Kat]]''
 * ''[[The Legend of Budd]]''
 * ''[[Mr. Berkel Derkel!]]''
 * ''[[Mister Spiff IV]]''
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 * ''[[Star Avenger 4]]''
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−	(From Alan Caudel) I think the original idea was to have a one-on-one player vs. computer almost fighting game. I was frustrated at the inability to make a fighting game (Street Fighter 2 may have been big around that time). So I set out to make the enemy take many hits to destroy, and its behavior would change after each time it took damage. Not quite a fighting game, but it could have been interesting.	+	(From Alan Caudel) I think the original idea was to have a one-on-one player vs. computer almost-fighting-game. I was frustrated at the inability to make a fighting game (Street Fighter 2 may have been big around that time). So I set out to make the enemy take many hits to destroy, and its behavior would change after each time it took damage. Not quite a fighting game, but it could have been interesting.

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	''Robo-Wars'' is a good start of something. There's not enough game here to know quite how it would have played out, but its snapshot of a world and its way of navigating that terrain echo with suggestion of what might have been.		''Robo-Wars'' is a good start of something. There's not enough game here to know quite how it would have played out, but its snapshot of a world and its way of navigating that terrain echo with suggestion of what might have been.
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		+	(From Alan Caudel) I think the original idea was to have a one-on-one player vs. computer almost fighting game. I was frustrated at the inability to make a fighting game (Street Fighter 2 may have been big around that time). So I set out to make the enemy take many hits to destroy, and its behavior would change after each time it took damage. Not quite a fighting game, but it could have been interesting.

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 '''Website:''' [http://www.dummyduck.com DummyDuck.com]<br />
 '''Related games:''' N/A
-}}[[Category:Pending articles]]<center>'''FULL ENTRY COMING SOON!'''</center>
+}}'''Not to be mistaken for Sherwood Forest Software's ''[[Robo Wars]]''.'''
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+''Robo-Wars'' is a good start of something. There's not enough game here to know quite how it would have played out, but its snapshot of a world and its way of navigating that terrain echo with suggestion of what might have been.
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 * '''''[http://www.aderack.com/game-maker/downloads/otprwars.zip Robo-Wars]''''' (80 kB)
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