As I mentioned earlier, I am passionate about making a new Dave episode. There are actually 7 other Dangerous Dave games, but nobody speaks of them.

I am talking about a game that is featuring Dave’s cold personality, with Metal Slug-like levels and Castlevania-like bosses, and of course Paul Robertson’s mighty Pirate Baby’s Cabana Battle Street Fighter 2006-like body count and blood-sprinklers.

I have some ideas brewing up for some time now. I am looking for people with strong passion for making games. If you are a graphics artist, either backgrounds or pixelart, make sure you contact me

This is it. I hope you enjoyed reading this article. Writing the first of a series is always the most difficult, so please make sure you point out what you liked and what you didn’t like in these pages; that way I can learn from mistakes and make better articles.

These are the programs used and mentioned throughout the article:

• decompress.c - deflates “HUFF” files
• unpack-level.py - unpacks RLEW used in level%02d
• level-to-png.py - renders a level (depends on unpack-level.py)
• show-tiles.py - converts EGATILES.DD2 file to png
• pic2png.py - converts a “PIC“ file to a png (depends on decompress.c)
• view-death-sequences.py - converts embedded animations to png
• view-sprites.py - converts sprites in seperate pngs (depends on decompress.c)
• ega_palette.py - EGA palette, required by most scripts

Code is released under the GNU Public License (GPL). If you make any changes, please make them publicly available. I would also appreciate an email.

I even did some code for a level editor. I have no idea why, but I worked on it. As I said before, this game has put a magic spell on me. Anyway, click on the screen shot for a full size view.

Cheers!
– gawd, 2006