'MATT2JONES AND ELECTROSOFT PRESENTS...
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'Welcome to my text-based RPG The Land of the Dead.  This game was written
'in QB4.5 on a 286 over a period of two days, with about four hours coding
'on the first day, and one hour one the second.
'  Basicly, when I sat down to start this game I had no idea what it would
'end up being.  All I knew was I was bored, and I had a computer.
'  First of all what I made was the ChooseCharacter sub, which I modelled
'on Ledgends of Lith...  After making that I thought about making a first
'person tile engine RPG...  But that would have taken too long.
'  The I came up with the idea of a Xen like game.  For those of you who
'haven't played Xen it's a text based RPG, thats really quite good.  So I
'started thinking up a story.
'  Like most people (or at least most people in my school) I think about
'killing everyone I hate...  Which is everyone, myself included.  The first
'thing of the so-called subculture I came into contact with was when I was
'twelve and I heard about the Colorado shootings.  Everyone in my class was
'united in there disgust at the killers...  Everyone except for me.
'  Some people are fascinated by serial killers, to me it's people who shoot
'there schools.  There something about it that makes me feel all warm and
'fuzzing inside, so when I came up with the idea for the game all the things
'I had ever thought about in relation to it came out, such as what I would
'do when it happened, and what I would do to my dead classmates.
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'That last line sounds pretty sick...   And I'm a sick guy, so you might
'put two and two together and think I'm a necro...  But I'm not, don't worry,
'I'd just cut them up abit and hand them upside down, or skin them or
'something...
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'Okay, thats enough backround, heres info on the game:
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'This game has four characters, you choose which you are in the beginning,
'and each one has a SLIGHTLY different story.
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'This game contains some perverted writting, comming from the mind of a
'sixteen year old who hasn't managed to get layed yet...  So it's pretty
'over the top...  Deal with it or fuck off, I really don't care.
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'The game is copywrite to me, and I won't be held responsible if it makes you
'shoot everyone in your school, but your glad to say I made you do it in
'your defense, as long as I don't get incriminated in any way...  Infact,
'it would be easier if you just bought a Maralyn Manson CD, and left it in
'your house, because everyone knows if you have a Maralyn Manson CD, he's
'controlling you and making you do these evil things...  Ignorent people...
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'Okay, the deal in the game is your at the top of your multi story school,
'everyone's dead and you gotta get out.  You wander around the corridoors,
'and may at any time enocunter your friend, or a half dead school girl.
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'If you encounter your friend she may either heal you, or direct you to
'a stairs on the lower level.  You can then choose if you want to go down
'or not.
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'If you encounter an enemy you can either run, attack her or use a special.
'Specials are pretty helpful, but do not allways work.
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'After a battle you gain experiance, when you gain enough experiance you
'gain a level.  With each level up you are given 10 stat points to distribute
'among Hp, St, and Df as you please.
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'If you Hp falls below 1 you die, if your enemies falls below 1 you win.
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'Pressing 1 Saves you game, 2 Quits, Enter makes you continue your search.
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'The zip for this game should include three files:
'Readme.txt
'LoTD.bas
'LoTD.exe
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'Readme.txt should contain this writting.  LoTD.bas should contain this
'writting and the source for the game.  LoTD.exe should be the game.
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'If you have saved your game there should also be two more files:
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'Dead.sav       Dead.bsv
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'If you edit those your save will be lost.
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'If this game offends you in any way, please don't hesitate to tell me.
'I love pissing people off, and thats why I make most of my shit anyway.
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'This game was started on the 24/11/2002 and finished on teh 25/11/2002.
'I wrote it in shit unstructured code for a reason...  Don't worry, I can
'code better then this.
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'Visit my page at:                  Visit my companies page at:
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'http://www.matt2jones.cjb.net      http://electrosoft.tekscode.com
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'                               Email me at:
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'                           matt2jones@yahoo.com

