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 == Links ==
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+<youtube>Sqwaf8mrqVQ</youtube>
 * '''[http://www.aderack.com/game-maker/java/buddlgnd.php Play ''The Legend of Budd'' online]'''

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	For what is here, ''The Legend of Budd'' plays well enough. Build a full map with these elements and populate it with monsters, and it will be a fun place to explore. For that matter, it's nice to follow up a platformer like ''Power Budd!'' with a totally different genre. It's interesting to see Caudel's bold next step for the character, even if its nature is a bit inscrutable.		For what is here, ''The Legend of Budd'' plays well enough. Build a full map with these elements and populate it with monsters, and it will be a fun place to explore. For that matter, it's nice to follow up a platformer like ''Power Budd!'' with a totally different genre. It's interesting to see Caudel's bold next step for the character, even if its nature is a bit inscrutable.
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		+	{{SeriesNav\|Power Budd!\|The Legend of Budd\|Budd series{{!}}(Overview)\|[[Budd series]]}}

	== Story ==		== Story ==

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 [[Category: Alan Caudel|Legend of Budd, The]]
 [[Category: Top-down|Legend of Budd, The]]
-[[Category: Adventure games|Legend of Budd, The]]
+[[Category: Action-adventure|Legend of Budd, The]]
 [[Category: Tributes|Legend of Budd, The]]
 [[Category: Character games|Legend of Budd, The]]

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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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 At a glance, this game seems like a design test -- one quickly abandoned due to Game-Maker's lack of screen-by-screen scrolling and the difficulty in getting the sword to behave as in the original ''Zelda''. The other figures, though, throw this theory for a loop. Too much effort went into their illustration for them to be just placeholders. So, we seem to have the start of a joke game that never made it past the setup.
-For what is here, ''The Legend of Budd'' plays well enough. Build a full map with these elements and populate it with monsters, and it will be a fun place to explore. For that matter, it's nice to follow up a platformer like ''Power Budd'' with a totally different genre. It's interesting to see Caudel's bold next step for the character, even if its nature is a bit inscrutable.
+For what is here, ''The Legend of Budd'' plays well enough. Build a full map with these elements and populate it with monsters, and it will be a fun place to explore. For that matter, it's nice to follow up a platformer like ''Power Budd!'' with a totally different genre. It's interesting to see Caudel's bold next step for the character, even if its nature is a bit inscrutable.
 == Story ==

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 [[File:BuddLegendSprite.gif|center]]
-''The Legend of Budd'' isn't as much of a game as ''FireAxe''; we control our walking drop of corrective fluid from ''[[Power Budd]]'' in four directions, and we can toss our sword in the last direction we moved. There's not much in the way of animation. There's not much in the way of opposition. The map consists of just a few screens -- faithful though they may be to ''Zelda'''s design. Lounging around in this tiny world are several Budd-like figures, dressed in ''[[Star Wars: Return of the Jedi|Star Wars]]'' or ''Mortal Kombat'' regalia. They don't really do anything; they're just there to be seen, and to provide Budd things to stab.
+''The Legend of Budd'' isn't as much of a game as ''FireAxe''; we control our walking drop of corrective fluid from ''[[Power Budd!]]'' in four directions, and we can toss our sword in the last direction we moved. There's not much in the way of animation. There's not much in the way of opposition. The map consists of just a few screens -- faithful though they may be to ''Zelda'''s design. Lounging around in this tiny world are several Budd-like figures, dressed in ''[[Star Wars: Return of the Jedi|Star Wars]]'' or ''Mortal Kombat'' regalia. They don't really do anything; they're just there to be seen, and to provide Budd things to stab.
 At a glance, this game seems like a design test -- one quickly abandoned due to Game-Maker's lack of screen-by-screen scrolling and the difficulty in getting the sword to behave as in the original ''Zelda''. The other figures, though, throw this theory for a loop. Too much effort went into their illustration for them to be just placeholders. So, we seem to have the start of a joke game that never made it past the setup.

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 '''Website:''' [http://www.dummyduck.com/ DummyDuck.com]<br />
 '''Related games:''' ''[[Power Budd!]]'', ''[[Link vs. Gannon]]'', ''[[Overworld]]''
-}} [[Category:Pending articles|Legend of Budd, The]]<center>'''FULL ENTRY COMING SOON!'''</center>
+}}With ''The Legend of Budd'', Caudel covers similar ground to ''[[FireAxe]]''; it's his attempt at a ''Zelda'' homage within the Game-Maker framework. Whereas ''FireAxe'' builds from the cosmetic and tonal elements of ''A Link to the Past'', ''Budd'' is an overt tribute to -- possibly even satire of -- the original ''The Legend of Zelda''. Whereas ''FireAxe'' is an earnest effort to make something new from found material, ''Budd'' is a half-built bucket of clear pop cultural references. The point of each reference is that you recognize it for what it is, and so the game itself faithfully articulates its source material.
 [[File:BuddLegendSprite.gif|center]]
-The Legend of Budd
+For what is here, ''The Legend of Budd'' plays well enough. Build a full map with these elements and populate it with monsters, and it will be a fun place to explore. For that matter, it's nice to follow up a platformer like ''Power Budd'' with a totally different genre. It's interesting to see Caudel's bold next step for the character, even if its nature is a bit inscrutable.
-Most of Alan Caudels' games (and those of his close associates) are difficult to precisely date. The copies that now exist originate from a series of mass archives, compressed and stored away years after the files' original creation. Do their modern-day "created" dates reflect the files' actual creation, or their copying or modification? It's hard to say, outside of a bit of faith and some educated guesswork.
+== Story ==
-With ''The Legend of Budd'', Caudel covers similar ground to ''[[FireAxe]]'' -- it's his attempt at a ''Zelda'' homage within the Game-Maker framework. Simple so far. What complicates a reading is one's understanding of causality and creative progression. Which game came first? The file dates would suggest ''FireAxe'' -- yet the design there is far in advance of ''Budd''.
+[[File:BuddLegendScreen.gif|thumb|320px|And that's the power of Budd.]]
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 == Links ==
 <videoflash>Sqwaf8mrqVQ</videoflash>
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 * '''''[http://www.aderack.com/game-maker/downloads/buddlgnd.zip The Legend of Budd]''''' (83 kB)
 [[Category: Incomplete games|Legend of Budd, The]]
 [[Category: Alan Caudel|Legend of Budd, The]]

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		+	The Legend of Budd

		+	Most of Alan Caudels' games (and those of his close associates) are difficult to precisely date. The copies that now exist originate from a series of mass archives, compressed and stored away years after the files' original creation. Do their modern-day "created" dates reflect the files' actual creation, or their copying or modification? It's hard to say, outside of a bit of faith and some educated guesswork.

		+	With ''The Legend of Budd'', Caudel covers similar ground to ''[[FireAxe]]'' -- it's his attempt at a ''Zelda'' homage within the Game-Maker framework. Simple so far. What complicates a reading is one's understanding of causality and creative progression. Which game came first? The file dates would suggest ''FireAxe'' -- yet the design there is far in advance of ''Budd''.

		+	Granted, the two games recall two different modes of ''Zelda''. Whereas ''FireAxe'' builds from the cosmetic and tonal elements of ''A Link to the Past'', ''Budd'' is an overt tribute to -- possibly even satire of -- the original ''The Legend of Zelda''. Whereas ''FireAxe'' is an earnest effort to make something new from found material, ''Budd'' is a half-built bucket of clear pop cultural references. The point of each reference is that you recognize it for what it is, and so the game itself faithfully articulates is source material.

		+	So, the way to read ''Budd'' would seem to be with an understanding of its tapestry of history -- both in its outward reference and in its design antecedent within Caudel's output.

		+	* Power Budd

−	~~Follow-up to, or spin-off of, ''[[Power Budd~~!~~]]'', that takes the form of a ''[[Overworld\|Zelda]]'' tribute/parody -- as with ''[[FireAxe]]''. (Which of those two came first?)~~	+	* FireAxe
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		+	* Star Wars
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		+	* Mortal Kombat
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		+	** Dummy Duck 4 / Alan Fun Game!

	== Story ==		== Story ==