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- (Oh, for Gob's sake. What a horrible job of ASCII art that is. Quite saddo,
- really. Obviously hasn't spent more 'n a couple of quid on that, poor sap.)
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- Authors : Spackle Ltd. consists of:
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- Yak Man -- Level Editor (Deuer)
- Image Editor
- Text "Editor"
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- Mister Bob -- Image Poobah
- Computer Owner
- Message Poster
- Document Writer (that's me :)
- Manual of Style
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- Spackle Ltd. trainee:
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- M.Bonzo -- Voice Talent
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- YakWorld.Doc history:
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- version 0.99 -- Mister Bob fills in the template
- version 1.1 -- Yak Man adds a couple sentences
- version 1.2 -- Mister Bob deletes aforementioned sentences
- version 1.3 -- Raid Fogger deployed
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- E-Mail Address : SPACKLE.LTD@genie.geis.com
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- Misc. Author Info:
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- Yak Man has several years of computing experience behind him, but nothing
- could prepare him for the complexity of linedefs, sidedefs, and the dreaded
- STARTAN3 texture. It was only through sheer abuse of Mister Bob's computer
- and GEnie account that he mastered the fine art that is Deuing.
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- Mister Bob, while also technically skilled, is simply too lazy to bother
- learning the intricacy of upper, lower, and normal textures, when to use
- them, and how not to bring the level crashing to the ground when adding
- a lift. He is much more confident when managing over 50 megs of Doom files
- on his hard drive and when spicing up the drab Doom image world.
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- M. Bonzo came over here and made himself useful with the microphone.
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- Description:
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- What is Yak World? The simple and clear answer is that we haven't got a
- clue. Many sections are highly nifty, but if it resembles a theme park
- or some sort of yak-infested planet we'd be the last to know. It lacks
- theme, unity, some of the things we love to see in a healthy WAD. We
- admit it! Don't hurt us.
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- However, Yak World shows a clear progression from Yak Man's initial
- stumblings in Deu 5.0 ("oh boy, let's put a 1024 drop right here, and
- many shotgunners") to an expert overuse of linedefs in 5.1 to create
- lighting effects, ultimately bringing Deu to a crushing halt, unable to
- create or delete sectors without giving over 1000 warnings and crashing
- at the end of the compiling process... These problems have been
- identified by UpJohn Co; Deu warnings are definitely a contributing factor
- to male-pattern baldness.
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- Of special note is the secret sewer area, which I rather like, being it
- my idea and all. If you haven't played it you haven't played the game, or
- something like that.
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- Features of Yak World include aforementioned unfinished sewer system, big
- drops, scary things with light, weird texture replacements, guns, rockets,
- lack of spider demons. Lots of secrets I can't tell you about. Go play
- that wad!
-
- Additional Credits to:
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- John Lyons, a brilliant and often witty Doomer. We often have frank
- discussions on topics pertaining to the state of Indo-Chinese subcultures
- as connected with recent discoveries of ancient artifacts in the Indus
- River Valley civilizations of the Quasi-Bronze Age period, and on certain
- occasions we might even speak about Doom (I miniaturized a trooper, he put
- "Kick Me" signs on Imps and built glass; you know, the kind of stuff normal,
- mentally healthy people do all the time.) Check out his FLORZOO and
- JL2 wads (JL3 near completion.)
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- Kami, reigning benedictine monk of DEU. BTW, KAMI2.WAD rules the world.
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- Steve Purcell, deity.
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- Trent Reznor, in-house audio stimulus. Caffeine on a shiny 5-inch platter.
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- * Play Information *
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- Episode and Level # : E1M1 (Oh, and E1M9, too!)
- Single Player : Yes
- Cooperative 2-4 Player : Sure. Go for it, sounds like fun!
- Deathmatch 2-4 Player : Yes, well... it's not made for Deathmatches,
- but people like killing each other anywhere,
- don't they? :)
- Difficulty Settings : Yes. Ultra-Violence is hard.
- New Sounds : Yep
- New Graphics : Yes nurse!
- New Demos : Roger, Ebert
- Rating : R (just imagine a G-rated Doom level in which
- the sergeants hug you and the demons prance
- about with glee...)
- Chemical Formula : Na B O * 10H O
- 2 4 7 2
- Recipe : Mix two parts coconut oil with a cup of ham
- cubes and leave in oven until brown and crispy
- (Yum!)
-
- * Construction *
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- Base : New level from scratch (n' sniff)
- Build Time : WAY TOO %&^$ING LONG... um, I mean quite some
- time. We weren't timing ourselves but it was
- off and on for weeks and weeks, it seems. A
- zillion hours. Good estimate.
- # of keystrokes involved: 14,732,265,321,145,317,331,353,282,383 (this number
- follows Bob's Law, stating that # of keystrokes in
- making a Doom level must be prime. If you are so
- inclined, you may spend many a millenia testing for
- factors.)
- Editor(s) used:
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- DEU AND ONLY DEU 5.0 and 5.1. Er, for the level. Also Deluxe Paint
- Animation fer some images and Paint Shop Pro as a cropper. Oh, and
- BSP 1.1 and DMGRAPH 1.1 and WadTools 1.0. These three little programs
- formed the foundation for usable levels that Deu sits upon. We bow to
- their power. Oh, and DMAUD 1.1 too! Blimey, there's a lot of good stuff
- out there!
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- Known Bugs : "Hall of Sky" in beginning. I BEGGED Yak Man to
- make the floors lower to eliminate this but he
- claims he'd have to reset the heights of the
- entire level. (He may actually be right.)
-
- * Copyright / Permissions *
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- Don't mess with the level. :) I mean, sure, futz around with it in Deu by
- all means, just don't upload modified versions.
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- However, authors can use images and sounds from here (why you'd want to,
- I wouldn't know...) as long as Spackle Ltd. is credited for originating
- it and you say what the hell you stole, I mean, rightfully borrowed.
-
- Ah, here, in plain Swahili:
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- "You MAY distribute this WAD, provided you include this file, with
- no modifications. You may distribute this file in any electronic
- format (BBS, Diskette, CD, 8-Track, etc) as long as you include this file
- intact."
-
- That sounds good.
-
- * Where to get this WAD *
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- Wherever you found it. It was first uploaded to the Scorpia RT on GEnie, one
- heck of a inexpensive online service (with very little Internet access, the
- pinheads).
-
-
- (You think this is a big doc? Have you looked at the size of the .WAD? :)
-
- Mister Bob
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- Now I'm going to hand the whole thing over to Yak Man, our Yak World author
- (run in fear!)
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- -------------------Important Notes (REALLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!)-----------
- YAK MAN DECLARES:
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- 1)DO NOT SKIP THROUGH THE END OF LEVEL TALLY PART (100% this, 100% that) OR
- ONE OF MY VILE HENCHMEN WILL MAKE YOU PAY!
- 2)There are three demos. The first is quick and pointless, but watch it
- anyway...(It's followed by a special reward!) The second is me, appearing
- to have consumed many teslas of powdered Strawberry Quik, thrashing through
- the level whereupon I promptly become meat.
- 3)I have also included a third demo of me beating the entire level...
- DO NOT WATCH IT UNLESS
- 1)You are too pathetic to beat this level even on easy mode
- 2)You are on the verge of pressing either
- a-IDDQD
- b-IDSPISPOPD
- 3)You have no qualms about cheating yourself out of the
- buckets of fun you could be having actually playing the
- level
- 4)You don't give a flying frenchman that poor Yak-boy had to
- toil for long hours under conditions unfit for any primate,
- and you'd rather have fun at his expense
- (Downright un-American I tell Ya)
- 5)You are not worried about any genetic mutation that this
- may cause
- 4)There are two exits to this level, do yourself a favor and find both.
- 5)Keep your SFX all the way up and the music down (you probably shouldn't
- need to but you wouldn't want to miss anything fun)
- 6)SEND ME CASH! SEND ME CASH! SEND ME CASH!--you are getting sleepy-- SEND
- ME CASH!! or credit cards, or travelers checks, or depositable beer cans...
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- HAVE A BARREL OF MONKEYS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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