Task 1 : Genres
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Genre Description
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Genre Example
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FPS
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First person shooter is a genre based around projectile weapons. Fps normally contain an enemy of objective to shoot. They usually fps are based around the gun based combat however many contain other tools to dispatch of your foe .fps are set from the eyes of the player's character. Fps can be multiplayer or single player. Most Fps will contain at least a very basic story..
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Call of Duty is a Perfect Example of an Fps it contains the use of projectile based weapons to achieve your objective with a story.
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RPG
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Role-playing game. Rpgs are games based on user assuming the role of a character and interacting with an AI world. The player will be set objectives in a world which they may fail or succeed based on their actions. This will change how the world interacts with them.
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Divinity Original Sin is an RPG where players explore a fantasy world where there set quests to deal with the problems of the towns folk. 
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RTS
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Real time Strategy is where a player takes control of a group of units to fight or beat an opponent. The game is normally set in bird’s eye view and gives the player an objective to complete however lets them do it there own way. The game will be set so units move in real time and respond to player inputs almost instantly.
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Wargame is a real time strategy set in an alternate cold war era world where players choose to control armies from countries all around the world. In sea, air and land based combat. 
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Driving
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Driving games are set in land based vehicles where players must use their skill with their car to either race other drivers or to push them off the road. Often racing games may contain real life car or vehicles. Driving games often have multiplayer or at least an competitive race element to beat other times from around the world
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Motor Storm: Motor storm is a Driving game that forces racers through extreme terrain racing in a hostile environment with other racer which compete and crash into each other.
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Adventure
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Adventure games are games that lead players to explore a story and complete puzzle or objectives. Adventures games are quite a broad genre and can often include other types of genres. Adventure games story and story development are normally what the game is rated. The player must converse with other characters and examine, collect, and use objects correctly to solve puzzles in order to progress.
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Grim Fandango: Grim Fandango takes place in the Land of the Dead, were recently departed souls aim to make their way to the Ninth Underworld. Grim fandango is critically acclaimed for its great storytelling.
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MMO
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MMOs are similar to Rpgs however the game contains a lot of other player in the world. This means the player has almost no effect on the overall world but complete sets quests which all players are offered. These game normally contain PVE and PVP blended into one. Their is normally shops to buy things for the character and player will have to pay real money for the best items. There may also be a membership fee to unlock the best items in the game
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Star wars : Knights of The Old Republic : this game is set in the star wars universe and players become and create their own made up heroes completing quests usually as groups to level up
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Horror
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Horror is another Genre that often crosses over with other genres. Horror games do not contain any particular game play elements. However they are built to induce fear into the player.
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Alien isolation is a horror game set in the alien and predator universe. The player takes control of Ripley’s daughter in the attempting to find out what happened to her mum however ends up being hunted through a space station by an alien.
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Tower Defence
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Tower defence games are games set in bird’s eye view. The player is tasked with setting up a defence to stop units from getting to a certain location. The player can place and create towers to stop and damage the progress of the enemies. Tower defence games will let you upgrade your tower to unlock more damage faster fire rates or even new abilities.
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Fieldrunners: is a tower defence set where the player has to stop and army of runners from getting to their base by placing towers from there selected load out. The player can create mazes to slow down the enemy units.
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Sports
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Sport games are games based around real life sports or similar to real life sports. The player will compete against other players or teams. They will win by scoring points against the opposition. Real life sports games are usually franchised so only one company may use certain leagues.
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Madden is a sport game based around the NFL in America. Players will play are their favourite sports players and compete against other players or AI in leagues .
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Simulation
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Simulator games are games based around imitating real life scenarios. They often make the player complete jobs or hobbies of others and don’t really contain any form of story. They leave the player to use real equipment to complete their task. Many of these games are used to relax and don't normally contain any competitive element.
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Farming Simulator: farming simulator is a game that simulates the action of farming on a real farm and gives a wide range of equipment to help players grow and create their own crops.
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Task 2 The Good the Bad and the ugly of games:
Concerns such as excess playing time: Gamers can become so addicted to playing games so they lose jobs and become Unproductive this can lead to mental health issues. Gamers can lead on by the idea of just 10 more minutes. However the next time you look at the clock it been 45.
“Children who play video games for more than three hours a day are more likely to be hyperactive, get involved in fights and not be interested in school”.
Cost: Games cost money to buy and maintain the ability to play new games. There are also time costs to the players of games. Games now days can cost up to £55 per title. “We worry about the strain our hobby puts on our budget, and we fret about too many desirable games released too close to each other”.http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2010/10/an-inconvenient-truth-game-prices-have-come-down-with-time/
Sound: Video games uses lots of sound to display feeling this can be a good thing when used well , however an over playing of video games can cause fear from certain noises and tracks leaving a person on edge and in some very rare cases lead to long terms physiological changes.
High score listings: Score boards can be a good way to rank yourself against others however the desire to be number to stay number one can lead to an over fixation on video games
Competitive games: As most games are relativity easy competition can cause anger as games induce a culture of every ones a winner when competition comes out in games the loser can often feel angry or disappointed.
Future impact: Games can affect you prospect to the future whether that’s a job to do with gaming or if you play too many games it can affect your work as a person who over plays games can become unproductive. Games overuse can also lead to a lack of social interaction meaning a lack of friends or partners when you’re older. plus a society too reliant on games will become disconnected and unsociable.
Benefits (hand-eye coordination, brain training):Games can teach people skills like hand eye coordination and reaction speed through fast events and movement on the screen .Games can also be educational helping in education or learning new skills such as typing like this game here. http://www.wordgames.com/zombie-typocalypse.html
Thinking and strategy skills: Games can also help improve people's planning a thinking skills the military uses games to help people thought process in military combat. Puzzle games can teach you new ways to approach problem solving.
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Situational awareness
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socially isolated
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They Can Help Address Autism
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confuse reality and fantasy
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They May Improve Balance in MS Sufferers.
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attention problems
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They May Help People Overcome Dyslexia.
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teach kids the wrong values
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You’ll Make Faster Decisions.
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poorer performance in school
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Desensitization
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Health Problems
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Planning, resource management and logistics
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Increased Aggression
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Fatigue
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Carpal tunnel syndrome caused by the overuse of a controller or computer mouse
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Task 3
My game design is called Dissident dolphin. The basis of the game is your dolphin called Rudolph that has be subject to abuse by the water world staff in the aquarium you have been held hostage in. One day you break free and arm yourself with a harpoon gun. You will use this to complete physics based puzzles and dispatch of “enemies”. The game would be played in a 3d 3rd person engine . One of the hooks of the game is how you make your escape. you could be stealthy and kill no one. you may only fight the guards who try to stop you leaving or your may go one a murderous rampage kill guards and civilians alike. The game will have a couple of endings. After the final boss fight with the CEO he will attempt to escape and Rudolph will be about to die . Rudolph has a choice . Weather to blow up the aquarium taking all down with him in his final revenge (pressing the red button or to press the green button and free all the other fish and sea life letting the CEO get away and dying a hero. This and who Rudolph choose to kill or not will change how he is remembered in the final cut scenes. Rudolph will also hop on land and swim in water in different rooms and levels
Task 4
Rudolph is based around the documentary black fish and the abuse the whale received in it driving them crazy. Rudolph has suffered similar abuse and this has also drove him to the brink of insanity. Players will have to fight with there emotions to either keep a clean conscious or to enact his revenge on those who lock him a punished him. Rudolph will also meet other sea creatures in the game and will have the choice to make them join his army of death or to help them escape. The game will be based to have a dark sense of humor and many characters will be wacky edgy looks into different forms of insanity. The water world staff are led by a cruel man CEO called “The Man” whose sole drive is profit. He will be Rudolph's arch nemesis in the game. He will Attucks the player with boxing gloves. Rudolph will be presented as a over the top angry character. He will change to a more sarcastic tone or go more raged filled depending on how the player plays.
3 in 1 gaming: space Invaders
For my 3 in 1 gaming I was assigned the task of making a space invaders remake. I decide to put my own spin on the classic game by creating the title Duck Invaders. In this remake the alien invaders are ducks in their spaceships. The game features 6 levels a simple title screen and transition sequences between each wave. Duck invaders has 5 different enemies all with their own skills.
The player however has his own arsenal of lasers and rockets with barricades to block and stop enemy fire. Each level has a different set up slowly getting harder when the last level is finished the game will loop and speed up so the players can try for the best score.
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Player: The player is displayed as a tank with some sort of laser gun attached to the top
Laser: the player shoots this weapon destroying one enemy at a time
Rocket: The Player may use this rocket less often however takes out big chunks of the invading ducks.
White duck: shoots slow red lasers rarely
Green duck: shoots green lasers which speed up and slow down rarely
Brown duck: shoots red lasers at a high rate.
Gold duck: shoots high speed rockets at the player quite regularly
Doom duck: shoots an array of weapons. However its movement is only vertical.
Barricades: These can be shot through by the players however will absorb a single round of fire by the enemy
This Barricade blocks player and duck fire alike a cannot be destroyed
This is the background for the first level the e city will slowly become more destroyed as the levels progress
This is the final background, as you can see the city has been destroyed
3 in 1 gaming: space Invaders
My second mouse maze
The game is a maths maze game. Players choose paths from answers to math questions to see if they survive. The game contains my own sprites ,coding and sounds.
Killer Klowns from space Chapter 1:
Soft whip Klowns, the lot of them. A bunch of white trash youth wasting his night. Dave realised he was starting to sound like an old man, starting to sound like Mooney. In his late twenties, with blonde hair and a face that had been chiseled by the gods, it was
undoubtable that Dave handsome man. The police car he sat in however was not. It groaned and growled at every bump in the road. The interior smelled like a mix of sweat and stale coffee. The paint job rusted and windows full of cracks. Dave peered into the darkness trying to catch sight of the fence which stretch the ridge of the mountain. Something caught Dave’s eye. A row of sparkling white teeth grinned manically through the night a two golden eyes emerged staring straight back at him like moons in a dark night. Dave panicked and swerved the car to other side of the road, slammed on the breaks, then peered up at the rear-view mirror looking for any sign of what he’d seen. Suddenly he spotted a quick mass darting towards the car. Dave grabbed for his gun, fumbling around with his holster. He looked up just in time to the wolf scamper into the woods in front of him. He was getting to old for this stuff. Debbie squeezed a little tighter around mikes waist. Like clinging to his very warmth herself. Mike didn’t mind. The mixes of alcohol and a warm blanket had left him in a trace like sate. Mike noticed a sound start to pick up over the hills. Though he decided it was purely in his imagination he started to hum the melodic jingle. Debbie shut up. “You hear that to? She quizzed. All of a sudden the sound picked up and an ice-cream truck burst into the parking lot a sinister tune blasting from the speaker. The truck circled the parking lot twice before grinding to a halt right in the centre. The speakers crackled. “Come get your ice-cream. Cold and soft, Cheep and sweet”. Mike crawled from under the blanket. Hurled himself over the lip of the pickup truck and made his way to the van. The side of the van slid open and an old man stood smiling at mike. “Il take two blue ice lollies” mike commanded. The man didn’t move. He looked mike straight in the eyes and asked “are you sure boy?” his voice crackling like a fire. Mike was confused by the question. He just nodded slowly to the man. The quizzed again “but would you not like some of my soft whip?” “Noooo” replied mike slowly “Ice lollies please”. The man shrugged and fetched mike the lollies. “Free for you young man” The old man beamed. Mike took the lollies said his thanks and mad his way back to Debbie. The van shot off back down the road from which it had come and mike climbed back under the blanket. Debbie asked mike if he was alright. He didn’t know. They were trespassing and the man had come all this way. It didn’t sit right. “Let’s get back” said mike. They climbed round to the front of the truck and drove off. Dave swung the door open and made his way to the trunk of the car. His backed ached and a ride back to town was going to be a long in an hour. He might as well make the most of the time. He grabbed a shotgun. And started towards the trees “time to catch me a wolf” he chuckled. He spent the first five minutes looking for a track. He eventually found some torn foliage. He couldn’t see the road anymore but could hear a vehicle moving near blast some awful jingle. He was soon distracted by the sound he lost his footing tumbling down a small hill. He clattered into a tree at the base of the hill straining his neck. Eventually he regained his balanced and began to observe the area around him. At first he took no notice of the strange orb but his brain quickly registered it was out of the ordinary. He gazed at the floating ball of purple light, it edges undefined the light in the centre so bright he could barely look at it. He edged towards the ball and it started to pulsate. Growing with each beat. The ball had almost doubled in size. All of a sudden it spilt right down the centre. Causing the ground underneath it to be flung across the clearing it stood in and send Dave flying into the bushes. Dave crawled behind a bush. All though he hadn’t been thinking about it he noticed the merry jingle suddenly cut out.
Chapter 2: Rupert Grimsby Rupert couldn’t contain his excitement he giggled to himself swinging the back of the truck open and letting Mr Marshmallow. The dog was as excited as he was darting straight into the woods surrounding the van. Rupert filled his pockets full of ice-lollies and locked the van. He staggered off towards the purple light humming work by Rihanna to himself. He found Marshmallow at the lip of a hill which dipped into a small clearing. A swirling purple mass centred the clearing surrounded by large group of men in clown costumes. He called to them “How are you this fine night gentlemen?” The clowns turned all staring up at Rupert. None of them giving any sign that they had heard what Rupert had said. “Would any of you like one of my lollies?” he asked again. The clowns gave no response. Rupert guessed they must not be able to hear him in those big costumes. He started climbing down the lip of the hill Mr Marshmallow hesitating whether to follow him. Rupert crossed the field quickly skipping towards the clowns. None of them had moved. He approached the closest clown. It stared at him blankly the face sagging and wrinkled, its flesh white and rubbery and its makeup smudged around its eyes and mouth. “Would you like a cold lolly my good sir?” Rupert asked one final time, hold a lolly up to the clown’s big red button nose. This was the last action Rupert Grimsby would ever make.
Chapter 3: The journey home Mike sped down that track with no care in the world. He hit a 50mph and he was quite pleased with himself. He looked over at Debbie, she was the opposite of pleased. Her face full of fear as she knew if they were to crash they would both most defiantly die. Mike started to slow the car. They just reach the edge of the private property when he’d noticed the flashing light of a police car. It didn’t appear to be moving. The slowly pulled up alongside the car and grinded to a halt. The car lay empty and planted deeply into some foliage. Mike was about to climb out of the car when he saw the officer emerge from the trees at quite a considerable pace. The police officer clutched a small white dog. His face was full of pure terror and the dog barked its high pitch yaps back towards the trees. The officer swung the back door open, hurled himself into the car and screamed “drive!” The car ride back to town was a mess. With Mike drunk the car was swerving left and right. Dave wouldn’t stop blabbering about clowns and the little dog carried on yapping. Debbie eventually snapped “Stop” she screamed! Mike pulled the car to the side of the road and Dave and the dog shut up. Debbie looked over her shoulder and glared at mike “one last time explain to me what happened. Her stern tone and face had snapped him out of his frantic state. Dave began his story “I was wondering through the woods when I spotted a purple light. The light opened, split right down the middle. Men, or what looked like men in clown outfits stepped out from the light”. Mike sniggered, “What’s he on”? Debbie spun round to face mike “speak again and I will tear out your tongue”. Debbie looked back at Dave “continue”. Dave did, “A man entered the clearing with this dog trying to offer lollies, which at I think may be a code for drugs”. Dave shifted in his seat. “However the clown bit off his nose”. Debbie stared at mike “Jesus, was the clown on drugs?” she asked. Dave shrugged. “I don’t know, but that’s not the worst bit. The clown the placed a straw into the whole a sucked out his brain”. Debbie gave the policeman a good few seconds to start laughing, hoping this was just a terrible joke. He never gave as much as a smile. By the time they approached town Dave had relaxed. He was on his radio trying to get in touch with chief Mooney with no hope. Dave told himself Mooney was most likely asleep. Mike had drank all the way back. He didn’t seem to care he was sharing a car with a police officer. Dave hadn’t the time to worry about mike, he owed him a debt for picking him up. Dave hadn’t managed to tell Mooney his pickup was not needed. However no car had passed them since they had set off. The car bumbled over the ridge and the town came into view. Debbie gasped and mike spat out the liquor in his mouth. Dave shifted into the middle seat to get a view. The town was a blaze, Golden flames lapping at the buildings. Dave swallowed. Right in the centre of the town standing a good two stories higher than the church was yellow and red circus tent.
Chapter 4: When the circus came to town Mike made a beeline for his aunt’s house the truck tore straight through the field on the outside of town. Mike only had one relative left and he wasn’t going to let his aunt come to harm. The truck tore through the wheat. The wheat beat against the windows and bonnet of the car making horrible lashing noises. The car burst out of the field piling through Mike’s aunt’s fence into the back garden. The gang jumped out of the car mike raced inside. The house was one of the only houses not on fire on the block. Mike rushed through the house screaming for his aunt, the house was empty. Mike stopped and looked out of a window on the second floor facing into town. His aunt stood in the centre of the road facing a tall clown about 20 yards away. The clown was dragging a high striker hammer, walking slowly towards her. Mike ran to the closet scrambling for the house gun. He pulled the revolver from the dusty shoe box then ran down stairs and out the front door. The clown now stood just out of arms reach of Mike’s aunt. The clown raised the hammer above his head ready to bring it down. Mike angle was terrible but he fired the revolver towards the clown. The recoil of the gun sent the drunk mike backwards into a flower bed. Mike heard his aunt scream as the bullet tore through her shoulder and into the clown’s chest. The clown giggled and brought the hammer down. The hammer crushed his aunt’s head sending shards of skull and brain pattering across the road. The lifeless body dropped to the ground. Mike screamed at the top of his lungs. Debbie and Dave emerged onto the road to find Mike screaming in a flower bed. Mike got to his feet and started towards the clown up the road. The clown had drawn a straw out and started sucking out what was left of the mangled corpse. Mike didn’t stop screaming as he charged at the clown that was taking no notice of him too pleased with itself and its snack. Mike came in ranged and pounced onto the clown flattening it onto its back. Mike howled and bit down onto the clown big button nose. The nose popped like and zit and a stream of blood shot into mikes face and mouth. Mike placed the revolver against the clown shrivelling head and fired 4 more shots. Dave, Debbie and marshmallow raced towards Mike as he coiled over backwards. All of a sudden 6 more clowns emerged from and alley close to mike encircling him and stopping the group in their tracks. Debbie screamed mikes name. He didn’t reply. Mike stood up. Placed the revolver to his chin and put his last shot into his own head. The clowns turned to face the group cackling and sniggering. Debbie fell to her knees’ and began to cry. Dave froze. Suddenly a horn sounded and car ploughed through the clowns sending them toppling over like bowling balls. The car stopped short of the pair. Dave spotted the police decorations grabbed Debbie by the shoulder. Mooney yelled “get in”!
Chapter 5: The tent Dave looked over his shoulder at Debbie, she had finished crying. Her expression was crazed her cheeks pattered with blood. Dave asked her if she was okay. She nodded slowly. “Mike was weak” she hissed, “I’ll miss him but if he cared about me he wouldn’t done what he did. You won’t leave me will you Dave”? Dave looked back to the front of the car. She’d lost it. The car barrelled down the road knocking down pedestrians and clowns alike. The town was a blood bath of townsfolk and clowns. Some of the town residents had set up barricades and taken arms. Others fled for their life’s being picked off one by one. Dave looked at Mooney “where are we going?” Mooney pointed at the tent standing above the buildings “Into that”. The car tore through the streets surrounding the tent, which were relatively empty. The car turned the corner to Shmeckle lane. The entrance to the tent was open at the end of the road. Mooney stepped on the gas and the car’s engine roared. Four clowns entering the tent turned just in time to see the squad car plough into them sending them flying. Mooney pulled the car up just before the main door and howled. “Let’s roast some space clowns” he boomed. The trio hopped out of the car and moved round to the back of the car. Mooney popped the boot open to reveal the arsenal hed brought “this is all I could find “. A 9mm pistol, a fire axe, a nail gun and garden shovel. The group kitted themselves out Mooney duel welding the nail gun and pistol Dave taking the axe and using a bin lid for a shield. Debbie taking the shovel. The group crashed through the main door with marshmallow at their heels. The tent was filled with clowns in a circle slinging bodies into the purple portal like the one Dave had seen in the woods. The clowns noticed the entrance of the group but did not react to face them. Instead the clowns carried on with their work. All of a sudden the portal rippled and shook, something began to emerge. A giant red button nose started to materialises. A clown as big as a house stepped through shaking the tent with every step. The clowns let of a roar of excitement and laughter. The giant clown face bloodied and hideous. It turned to look at the group and it eyes began to glow bright yellow. Dave saw Mooney’s face light up. Debbie screamed and charged with her shovel in hand. The clown had swiped for her missing by an inch. Dave screamed at the top of his voice “charge!” Mooney sprinted the group of smaller clowns, Dave ran to assist Debbie. Marshmallow watched from afar. Mooney was a whirl wind of nails and bullets dropping clowns left right and centre. One of the large of the clowns started to grab pies from a barrel hurling them at Mooney. The old officer fired another nail into a closer clowns eyes and grabbing the body for a shield. A pie impacted on the clown’s chest melting a large hole into its body. Mooney dropped the body and dashed towards the clown dogging two more pies. A final pie clipped Mooney’s right arm making him drop the nail gun. He clattered into the clown pinning it to the ground. He pressed the barrel of the 9mm against the clowns head. Suddenly Dave called Mooney’s name, Mooney looked up in time to see a giant clown shoe coming down towards him. The clown he held to the ground rapped around Mooney holding him in place and the pair became a stain on the bottom of the giant’s shoe. Debbie and Dave had been hacking at the legs of the giant for a good 10 minutes and the pair where both out of breath. The clown was slow and it wasn’t hard to doge its swings, however it hadn’t tired or show any sign they were making an effect. Debbie went for a darting run under the clown’s legs planting the shovel into the clown’s knee. However the clown’s stumble rocked the ground setting her off balance. The clown used one had to grab for Debbie snagging her leg. The crazed Debbie howled and screamed at the clown and Dave slashed at the creature with his axe. The clown brought Debbie over her shoulder and cannoned her straight at Dave. Dave rolled away missing Debbie by inches. Debbie impacted the grounded created a small crater and breaking every bone in her body. Dave made one final run at the clown tossing his shield aside he jumped towards the clown hoping to hit the beasts torso. The clown lent forward swiping again intercepting Dave in mid-air. The clown laughed with glee. It attempted to shovel Dave into it mouth. Dave took one last swing with his axe planting into the clown’s nose. Dave used his axe as an anchor stopping himself from going straight into the clown’s throat. The clown bit down in pain tearing Dave in half. The clowns nose suddenly burst and blood and meat sloshed around the covering the room in blood. Dave dropped from the clowns jaws and slumped to the ground. Chapter six:
Epilogue “Lance corporal Riddick”? “Lance corporal Riddick”? The corporal looked over his shoulder “yes sir”? The officer pointed toward the tent which stood at the end of the road. “What is that”? The corporal swivelled to look back at the entrance to the tent. A small red object was dragging something from around the squad car. The corporal and three men made their approach to car. “So” yelled the Officer? “It’s a half a body a body sir, being dragged by a dog sir”. “What about the body corporal, is he alive?” “No sir” replied the corporal. ”That would be dumb”
Killer Klowns Vs Hunky Humans
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Hunkey human classes:
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Killer Klowns vs Hunkey humans map 1
This map is a recreation of the actual town featured in the killer klowns from outer space movie.
Plot
Our game takes place 5 years after the end of the movie, the humans thought the klowns were dead. But they were wrong. The ship destroyed by Dave, Mike and Debbie was only a probe, once the clowns found out the probe was destroyed they launched an all-out attack on earth and it started a war. The war was long and destructive. There are few humans left to fight the klowns but the ones that are left, are the best. In this game you can choose to play as the humans or the klowns, its 12 vs 12 warfare on small medium and large maps. As a human or klown you can choose from 6 unique classes.
Shai has the plot power point however cannot get it on my blog
