Donut Quest

From Pigasoftware

Donut Quest

Engine: Modified "1945" Example

Type: Arcade Game

Donut Quest is game for Microsoft Windows made by Piga Software for the Brogo web comic strip released on October 30th 2006. It features the Brogo character Ed Donut (Michelle the mechanic's lazy, dim-witted, and donut obsessed assistant who is also known to have confrontations with spiders), as he fights his way against spiders in a donut factory. The game was made using Game Maker 5, on Windows 98 Second Edition. They game has been successfully tested on Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows 2000, and Windows XP, and it should run on all versions of Windows from 95 onwards except possibly Windows Vista.

1 Story
2 Items and Enemies
3 Credits
4 GNU/Linux and Wine
5 Version 1.5
6 Proprietary Tool and Source Code Availability
7 External Links

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Story

One day Ed is watching the news, when he hears that a donut factory is closing. As anyone would expect, Ed rushes over to the factory. Ed finds hundreds of donuts but he also finds thousands of spiders. He gets a spray can and battles the spiders for the donuts (how Canadian).

-- Spoiler Alert! Plot's ending listed below --

After fighting through spiders and collecting many a donut (and poison spray cans), Ed enters the wrecked and structurally insecure interior of the factory. Ed looks around for more donuts but then encounters the largest spider ever seen by man: he is "Old Hairy" the master spider. There is a long battle of hominid to arachnid which Ed eventually wins after much struggle. Outside he hears the sound of work men approaching the building to begin the demolition. "5, 4, 3, 2, 1!", Ed jumps out of a closed window just as the building implodes, covering him with ash and knocking out some teeth. Ed then considers his previous actions, "Maybe I should not have done that.... Nah!!!"

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Items and Enemies

Frosted Donut

The lowest form of donut, provides the least points.

Frosted Sprinkled Donut

Better then the frosted but not as good as the others.

Chocolate Donut

The second best donut in the game.

Chocolate Sprinkled Donut

The best donut in the game, providing the most points.

Med Pack

Heals spider bites.

Spray Can

Provides Ed with a weapon to spray the incoming spiders with, if the spray contacts donuts they disappear contaminated.

Spider

Spiders descend towards the player and cause massive health damage if contacted with by Ed.

Old Hairy

Old Hairy swivels from side to side shooting out massive webs that can injure Ed.

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Credits

Malcolm Wilson: head designer, Brogo cartoonist, Malcolm Wilson Multimedia head and creator of the graphics and sounds.
Graham L. Wilson: programming.
Hamish Wilson: programming.
Iain Wilson: writing, Download.com publishing.

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GNU/Linux and Wine

Donut Quest has been successfully run on Fedora Linux 7, 8, and 9 using various recent versions of WINE. All parts of the game seem to run well, except for the background music. This may be caused by the fact that is in Midi format and in a later version there will be the option to select WAV files instead of MIDIs for better WINE support, the fire work menu effects also occasionally cause troubles or slow downs. They will also be optional in 1.5.

Game Maker 5 also runs in WINE, and has loaded up the Donut Quest project file (.gmd).

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Version 1.5

On December 22 2007 CE, Piga Software alongside Brogo and Malcolm Wilson Multimedia announced that a version 1.5 of Donut Quest is going to be released. It is to feature bug fixes, new features, license upgrade to version 3.0 of the GPL, and add-ons that make it more compatible with WINE. No release date has been given, but notes of further development did occur throughout July of 2008 CE and it is still a priority project (the development more recently slowed down due Flitwick experiencing power problems).

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Proprietary Tool and Source Code Availability

Donut Quest is released under the GNU General Public License (version 2), however it was built in the proprietary software creation application: Game Maker 5. With the demo version you can only edit it with restrictions and you may need to remove some features such as the menu fireworks in order to compile or interpret the program. Piga Software allows modifiers of Donut Quest to send their modified versions to them so that they can compile it. However all modifications have to be under the GPL as stated in Donut Quest's license. The source code (Game Maker project file) is included with the program.

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