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Title                   : Romero Death Skittles (version 1.0)
Filename                : rd-skit.wad
Distributed As...	: rd-skit.zip
Release Date		: 22nd September 2004

Author                  : Russell Pearson
Email Address           : rddp@duellist.net (subject title 'DOOM')
Website			: www.duellist.net
                          
Description             : A single player fantasy bowling mod for ZDoom.

Additional Credits to   : Stuart Godbolt - playtester and the person
			   responsible for the excellent boulder
			   sprites. Stu's website can be found at
			   http://www.fatalgames.co.uk

			  Maktone - responsible for all the music in
			   this mod. Maktone's web site can be found
			   at http://www.maktone.tk

			  Sock - designer of the original textures
			   which I modified for use in this mod.
			   Sock's website can be found at
			   http://www.planetquake.com/simland

			  Jack and Matthew Pearson - my sons, who
			   playtested this thing to death :)

			  Raven Software - a few replacement sounds
			   and textures were taken from Hexen
			   (and possibly Heretic).

			  Additional thanks to Nigel 'Enjay' Rowand.


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			  Doom Raider (full version)	(dr1-full.zip)
			  Lego Base	 	 	(legobase.zip)
			  Lego Base Enhanced 	 	(legob-sp.zip)
			  Tunnel Run     	 	(tun-run.zip)
			  Blastem 2      	 	(blastem2.zip)
			  DoomTown		 	(doomtown.zip)
			  Deleted Scene  	 	(deleted.zip)
			  Deleted Scene2 	 	(deleted2.zip)
			  Okori				(okori.zip)
			  Close Kill     	 	(c-kill.zip)
			  Voidtest       	 	(voidtest.zip)
			  Lego Textures  	 	(legotex.zip)
			  Wood gfx       	 	(woodgfx.zip)
			  Doom2 Flats    	 	(d2flats.zip)
			  Lego Base Original Cut 	(legob-oc.zip)
			  Fear Spirits			(fearsprt.zip)
			  Twin Pistols			(twingun.zip)
			  ZDoom Tooth Door		(toothy.zip)
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* Play Information *

Advanced engine needed  : Yes. ZDoom (whatever the latest version is.
				      I tested this using Zdoom cab63a.)
New Levels		: Yes
Episode and Level #     : MAP 01
Single Player           : Yes
Cooperative 2-4 Player  : No
Deathmatch 2-4 Player   : No
Difficulty Settings     : Not relevant, so 'No'
Recommended Difficulty	: see above
New Sounds              : Yes
New Graphics            : Yes
New Music               : Yes
Dehacked/BEX Patch      : Yes
Demos Replaced          : No
Other files required    : None

* Construction *

Base                    : This was built from scratch.

Editor(s) used          : Wintex, PSP, Wad Author, Dehacked, XWE and Notepad :)
Known Bugs              : None

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* Copyright *

Authors MAY NOT use the contents of this file as a base for
modification or reuse.

This level is copyright Russell DD Pearson (2004). You may
distribute this file in any electronic format (BBS, Diskette,
CD, etc) as long as you include this file intact.
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* Blah de blah de blah *

Romero Death Skittles.....

This is a bowling mod for ZDoom. It's not totally finished, but I want to take
a break from this, and as it's fully playable, i'm making it available to
everyone. Have a play around with it and if you want to send me any comments,
suggestions or bug reports I'll be happy to receive them.

This contains an in-game tutorial so I won't put too much here. The only things
I forgot to mention in the tutorial is that 

	1) you can have a maximum of the 3 of each of the power-ups stored at
	   any one time. Any addtional power-ups obtained over this value are
	   effectively wasted. 

	2) armour will absorb 1/3 of any damage taken (rounded down)

I rushed the tutorial a bit so it's ropey.

Game balance in terms of pin scores, power-up availabiliy, etc could probably
do with a bit more fine tuning and the scripting is pitiful. These are things
I can address in a future version (should i return to it).

There's a slight oddity in that sometimes the odd pin seems to suffer a delayed
reaction. After the bowling ball has passed a pin by it might move slightly or
die. Doesn't happen very often, I'll sort this out later too. For the time being
we'll say the bowling lanes are haunted and so it's a 'game feature' (TM).

If you want to blame anyone for this mod you can look in the direction of Enjay
and Stuart. Enjay informed me about the 'rip' bit during the playtesting of
Doom Raider and this made boulders possible. Stuart produced many many different
boulder graphics when I asked him to do one for Doom Raider and these lead me
to build this mod. So it's their fault, not mine! I'm an innocent bystander :)

This works fine with ZDoom 63a.cab. Due to a possible bug in ZDoom (?) I had to
script my own armour effect. DamageThing was ignoring armourbonuses provided using
GiveInventory. So if you're using a version of ZDoom later than 63a, and the
armour isn't behaving as you would expect, it may be that Randy has sorted this bug
and it's now conflicting with my script.

-Russell Pearson (22nd September 2004)
 
email: rddp@duellist.net (put 'DOOM' in the subject title or your email may be
			  accidently deleted as spam).



