Clyde & Zeke

Clyde & Zeke

Release type: Demo game
Release date: 1995
Levels: 1
Author: A-J Games
Related games: none

The Game-Maker 3.0 release deadline was quickly approaching, and A-J Games wanted to get in one last game: a simple demo, to show how monsters could also be used as helpful partners. A look out the back window supplied a view of a lake, full of ducks. So there was a theme: one duck following another duck. Why not.

For a character, they found a photograph of a duck and shrank it down to 20×20 pixels. It was going to be swimming, so it didn’t need much animation. They whipped up some actually pretty decent marsh tiles and imported them from Deluxe Paint. Add a single adversary — a paper boat — and a single pick-up — a school of fish, which restored health. The developer then quickly threw together a maze level. Find your way from A to B; use your AI partner to protect you. That’s it.

The game only took a day or two to finish and send off. Although RSD received it before finalizing the CD, it arrived late enough to miss appearing on the disc. No great loss, but it is sort of curious.

Story

A marsh maze in Clyde & Zeke

Clyde & Zeke have somehow made their ways into a pond, some distance from their own home. You must help these ducks find their way through the marsh.

Instructions

Ok. Here's how it goes -- the arrow keys move the ducks. That's it. You collect the scraps of bread and minnows for health, and avoid the paper boats.

Try to use Zeke to get rid of the boats using a whiplash-type strategy, as Zeke is much tougher than Clyde, albeit smaller.

Credits

Everything: Eric-Jon Waugh

Links

• Laser Light (DIYGamer)

Downloads

• Clyde & Zeke (243.6 kB)
• Marsh map (313 kB)