Trooper II

Trooper II is my largest project, a sublimation of all my programming skills, and my obsession for the 12 months it took to create the game from scratch, designing first the graphics engine (which was surprisingly simple), introducing more and more varied graphics for it to work on, and finally fully applying a platform game engine and a user friendly level editor. The game was completed by me as part of our school's young enterprise scheme (which was a bit of a steep deal - 30 hours of intense programming to finish the thing, got paid nothing), as released or sale around our school on CD. Amazingly, itacquired a bizaare cult following with some of the younger years, and we managed to sell enough to more than break even, which was, at least, reassuring. In these pages I've attempted to contain the scrolling multitude of pages that I've previously written on the game, as well as offering the game for download. Included is the levels section, where some extra levels designed in the meantime are available (due to my unique format they are usually only 2-3 Kb, and so well worth a look), and the very extensive guide I produced to provide online instructions for the sale version. In addition, the level editor for windows is now available for download, and for the more hardcore fan provides a much more user friendly interface to the level editting system. I hope you enjoy the game, and if you bought it for the princely sum of £1.50, you don't feel too bitter about me releasing it for download. Just a note: noone I know of, apart from myself, has ever completed the game. Personally, I don't think it's too hard; I can run through the game in around 45 minutes; but if you do complete the thing, my personal best score is 139,500. If you exceed this, you have gained my respect, although I suspect you need to get out more. None the less, Trooper II is a laugh any time, and it's also my masterpiece, almost completely bug free, and free, so at under a megabyte it's worth having whatever. Enjoy, Jon