Duel 2

Version 1.15

Richard Cassan

 

Disclaimer:

 

                I do not take responsibility for any effects, adverse or otherwise, that this game may have on you or your computer.

 

Requirments:

 

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Story:

 

                Read the story in the opening to the game. Hit esc to skip the opening.

 

The Main Menu:

 

                Game modes:

                There are two types of games (single player and multi player).  This game, like original Duel is primarily a two player death match game, but unlike Duel, this has many other game modes.  They are:

                Two Player:

                                Duel  --  the main death match game

                                Tag  --  be 'it' the least

                                Drone Kill -- work cooperatively to destroy as many drones as you can

                                Asteroids  --  a classic asteroids game (work cooperatively)

 

                One Player:

                                Drone Kill  --  kill as many drones as you can in the time limit

                                Missile Avoid  --  avoid the homing missiles

                                Asteroids  --  a classic asteroids game            

 

**all of the game modes are described in more depth below**

 

                High scores:

                The high scores section will display the high scores for all of the game modes that have highscores.  Press the left and right keys to switch the game.

               

Selecting a Map:

 

                In Duel and Tag you have the option to select the map you wish to play on prior to the start of the game.  Use the left and right arrows to switch between maps, and the up and down arrows to change  textures.  Enter to select the map, and begin play.

Gameplay:

 

                The controls:

 

Player 1:

                                Keypad -- ship movement

                                Right Ctrl -- fire weapon

                                Right Shift -- change weapon

                                               

Player 2:

                                W,A,D  Keys -- ship movement

                                Left Ctrl -- fire weapon

                                Left Shift -- change weapon

 

                The screen:

                                At the bottom of the screen is listed the players' ammo, current weapon, and time (for tag) or lives(other game modes).

 

 

Game Modes:

 

                There are 8 different game modes (6 unique games).

 

Duel

                The two players fight each other (starting with seven lives each).  New weapons will appear on the screen as the game goes on.  Simply, just make sure that your opponent runs out of lives before you do.

 

Tag

                One player will have a red circle around it, that is the player that is 'it'.  Run into your opponent to make it 'it'.  Each player has a timer that keeps track of how long they have been it.  At the end of the time limit, the player that has been it the longest looses.

 

Drone Kill (one and two players)

                There are ten drones flying randomly around the screen (the green things).  When you destroy one, it will regenerate randomly on the map.  You simply have to destroy as many as you can in the time limit.            

 

Asteroids (one and two players)

                This is just a classic asterodis game.  When you destroy a large asteroids it will split into two medium asteroids, and when you destroy a medium asteroid it will split into to small asteroids.  Destroying a small asteroids will leave nothing. Destroy all of the asteroids to move on to the next level.

 

Missile Avoid

                There will be a ship in the middle of the screen (you can't run into it).  It spins, shooting an unlimited supply of homing missiles.  You have to survive as long as you can on your five lives.

 

Asteroid Avoid

                You are placed in the asteroids arena with lots of asteroids floating around, but you are given no weapon

 

Weapons:

 

                There 13 different weapons! **Note cooldown refers to the wait time between shots**

 

Single Laser / Standard Shot -- average damage, average cooldown, no special

 

Triple Laser -- three standard shots

 

Spread Laser -- five standard shots

 

Spray Shot -- a full circle of standard shots

 

Wrath Missile -- high damage, slow cooldown, no special

 

Homing Missile – a wrath missile that chases after other player

 

Reboud Laser -- standard laser that bounces off of walls

 

Gatling Laser -- small damage, fast cooldown, no special

 

Rebound Homing -- homing missile that bounces off of walls (not currently in the game because it was too hard to avoid)

 

Reverse Tri-Shot -- shoots a triple shot forward and backwards

 

4 Dir-Shot -- shoots a standard shot in four directions (forward, right, backwards, left)

 

Shun Shot -- stuns the ship so that it cannot move for a short time

 

Mine -- place a mine down on the screen, it does not move, but does a lot of damage

 

Changes

                From 1.0 to 1.01

                                -Fixed the tag countdown timer

                                -Made the tag choose a random player to start ‘it’

                                -Fixed a small bug with the high score saving

                From 1.01 to 1.02

                                -Recompiled it using the new Allegro 4.0, should increase stability.

                From 1.02 to 1.03

                                -Slight change in the asteroids mode to make the players respawn in the middle.

                                -Fixed a problem in duel mode that credited the win to the wrong player.

                From 1.03 to 1.04

                                -Compiled it with Allegro 4.0 for real this time

                                -Fixed a small problem with the drone kill

From 1.04 to 1.05

                                -Fixed bug in drone kill where drones would go away after a while

                From 1.05 to 1.10

                                -Added a story in the opening to the game.

                                -Added new game mode: Asteroid Avoid

                                -Fixed a small problem when hitting enter after typing a high score.

                                -Fixed a major bug where you could not go past level 8 in asteroids.

                From 1.05 to 1.15

                                -Removed the fade-in / fade-out because it was working poorly on some systems

                                -Adjusted the controls for the ships

                                -Made several other small tweaks to the visual style

 

Acknowledgements

-The game was programmed using Allegro, a low level game library (http://www.talula.demon.co.uk/allegro/)

-All of the music in Duel 2 was composed and sequenced by cryptorchild

                -The music is played using DUMB library (http://dumb.sourceforge.net/)

               

Conclusion

                This game is freeware, so it is free to distribute any way that you please, but if you do redistribute the game I would like you to give me credit, and link to my website. Thanks.

 

                Please, send any comments, problems or bug reports to me at:

                contact@ts-games.com

                I would really like to hear what you think of this game.

                Also, you can download my other games at:

                http://www.ts-games.com