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Disclaimer:
gg no re - (C) 2004 - The Total Freaks Clan.
All of the 9 l33t levels - (C) 2004 - Their respective creators.
gg no re Readme - (C) 2004 - The Total Freaks Clan. I (guess who I am!)
wrote most of this readme.
None of the levels included in gg no re may be edited without their
respective owner's consent. (Level-stealers must die!)
The music and the tilesets used in this level pack are the property of
their respective creators. All known music/tileset
creators have been accounted for and credited. (GO THEM!!!)
Blah Blah was planned, created and packaged by an international coalition
of Freaks. :-)
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Long, long, long, long introduction to Blah Blah, the multiplayer level
pack:
I looked at the date. It was the 20th of November. Hmm... 9 days till my
birthday. I remembered creating my very own level
pack, which was uploaded on my birthday almost 3 years ago. Nope,
absolutely no chance of me getting together a level pack
of acceptable quality within 9 days. Then I looked at the date again. It
was still the 20th November. Huh! Wait a minute...
That's over a month away from Christmas! Perhaps I could release a good
level pack in time for Christmas! It was a perfectly
feasible idea...except for that fact that I spent 3 months making my first
level pack. I'm not some kind of level factory or
JCS machine like CelL, I thought. He could whip a level up within 5 days
although I do have to take into consideration the
fact that his older levels, the ones he spent very little time on, were
actually pretty crappy (HAHA!! J/k, CelL, you're an
amazing JCSer :-P). Well, that's it, I thought. I can't finish one for
Christmas either. But wait a minute, I'm in Total
Freaks! I'm surrounded by great level makers!!! What if I get them to do
the job for me??? (That's right, fellow Freaks, you
are all pawns in my game of JCS domination!!! MUWHAHAAHAHAHAH!!!). I looked
at the date. It was STILL the 20th of November.
1 level per person. 1 level within a month. Wow! Now that would be a good
Christmas present to the JJ2 community! I quickly
rushed to forums.totalfreaks.com (go visit it and while you're at it, also
go to www.totalfreaks.com and check out Flash's
brilliant handiwork! :-D). I created a new thread and wrote down what I
thought of a Total Freaks level pack. I put down
some loose guidelines for the rules and waited for the reply. Enigma was
the first to swallow the bait. Then came Unhit and
Flash. Finally, half the clan was involved. Well, almost half the clan.
LabRatKiD was in, and so was Dalspots. Also, through
an "accidental" loophole in the rules, CelL was also able to pitch and
create a level for the clan. :-) The whole plan was to
create two levels for Total Freaks' level pack. One battle and one CTF.
Then we just put it in a zip, upload it at J2o and
wait for the money...ahem...good ratings, and of course downloads, to flood
in. (So you guys better flood...or else!). The
rules were not strictly enforced and not everyone created two levels but it
didn't matter since we ended up with so many
great levels. Well... you can read
on.........................................................................
...............
or you can extract the files and start playing! Enjoy, and Merry Christmas
and a Happy New Year from the Total Freaks Clan!!!
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Contents:
Miscellaneous
Readme - TF_Readme.txt - Readme file :-P - Creator: White Rabbit
Readme - TF_Readme.html - Readme file in HTML form :-P - Creator: Flash.
CelL's Readme - OLC_WinterMelody - CelL's private readme about his level -
Creator: CelL! Who else???
CTF
Winter Melody - olctfwinter.j2l (yeah, yeah, I couldn't stop CelL from
putting in OLC before TF :-)) - CelL
Snowman's Land (check out the pun!) - tfsnowman.j2l - Creator: White Rabbit
Algid Jollification - tfolcaj.j2l - Creator: LabRatKid
Merry Hypothermia - tfhypo.j2l - Creator: Enigma
Battle
Superslick Santa Showdown - tfs4.j2l - Creator: Flash
Gold Rush Mountains - tfgoldrush.j2l - Creator: White Rabbit
Hyperborean Biosphere - tfolchyper.j2l - Creator: LabRatKid
Worst Christmas Level Ever - tfunhit.j2l - Creator: Unhit
Blizzard Catastrophy - tfblizzard.j2l - Creator: Dalspots
Tilesets
JJ1 Holidaius - holidaiusN.j2t - JJ1 conversion tileset - Creator: Violet
Keen4Ice - keen 4 ice 3.j2t - Commander Keen conversion tileset - Creator:
Our very own LabRatKid :-D
Winterland Wonder - WinterW.j2t - JJ2 tileset - Creator: Disguise
Tube Electric Xmas - tubex.j2t - JJ2 tileset - Creator: Flash
Music
White Hare - whare.j2b - Composer: The good guys at Epic
Whole New World - gj-wnw.it - Composer: grymmjack(gj)
Candion - xmas3.j2b - Composer: The good guys at Epic
Remixmas - remixmas.j2b - Composer: Unknown, but probably Epic...again
Remixed Silent Night - Xmas1.j2b - Composer: The good guys at Epic
Winters - Winter.it - Composer: unknown
Mountain Breeze - JT_BBREEZ.XM - Composer: Jeroen Tel
Chaos Surprise (this thing is almost 1mb large!!! :-O) -
synth_c_chaos-surprise.xm - Composer: Fernus.
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What the authors have to say:
White Rabbit on Gold Rush Mountains:
Well...phew! What a tiring level, and it's not even as good as I had
intended! I spent
a LOT of time on this level, which is a shame because, in my opinion, the
level is too small and I...just...cannot...fit
all of the stuff into it! :-( It's all right, I guess and it has some
rather interesting stuff like a story (yay!) and an
original way of getting power-ups. Here's the story (it's bad, but it works
:-P): Two prosperous mining villages in the
golden Yellow Mountains were mysteriously abandoned. It turned out that the
residents caught sight of invading rabbits, out
to steal their precious money and to mine all the gold from Yellow
Mountains. The residents of Totaltown and Freaksville
would, of course, not stand it, so they barricaded their town and several
key areas of Yellow Mountains to block the
darn, pesky, rabbits. Unfortunately, their courage wavered after seeing
those rabbits heavily armed with all sorts of
weapons, so the residents fled their towns, leaving the rabbits, who
weren't really allied with each other, to fight it out
over all of the gold and silver coins in Yellow Mountains and its two
towns.
White Rabbit on Snowman's Land:
This is a way better level than Gold Rush Mountains. As I was digging out
old levels I
made, in a desperate attempt to find inspiration, I found a level called
wrbeton.j2l. I opened it up and found a
half-finished CTF level. Hmm...this level isn't half-bad, I thought, so I
decided to look for any other of my unfinished
levels. I then found the answer to my problems: wrxmas2.j2l. It was the 2nd
level of my aborted Christmas level pack I
tried, in vain, to create in 2002. This level was less than half-finished
and looked quite noobish. I could use the
unfinished parts of this level as a framework, I thought. But then the
unfinished parts aren't particularly good. And the
level wasn't intended to be CTF in the first place. Pah! It's my level and
I know exactly how to twist and turn it into a
CTF level. So I did. :-) Have fun with this level, guys! Heheheheheh.
Flash on Superslick Santa Showdown:
You may recognize parts of this level while playing. That is because the
level is actually a much much much bigger and better
version of my old level "Molecular Moocows". Originally I planned to make a
brand new level for the pack. I started on it and
used the Inferno 1 tileset but I figured it would never be finished before
the deadline, which was the 21st of december. So I
opened Molecular Moocows (which I was by then already making bigger) and
added some parts. The Tubelectric tileset however
didn't really have a Christmasy feeling. I decided to edit the tileset so
it would fit the theme of the level pack. I copied
a snowman and some snow tiles from Inferno, darkened the palette and used
it for my level. Voila: a level with, in my
opinion, really nice eyecandy and the real "Christmas" feel.
CelL on Winter Melody "
Hoom hum. What can I say about this level? I havent really been active at
making levels for a long time now, but since I
havent really done much for TF in my time as a member, I decided to at
least try and create something for this project. It
turned out quite well, if I do say so myself Nothing spectacular, just a
small CTF to enjoy (or not) during the holidays.
I used the Holiday Hare 98 Night tileset, by Epic (which, if I may say, has
some very nasty bugs in it =/). The music is a
nifty module called Whole New World, tracked by Grymmjack of Revelation
Music.
Thats about all Ive got to say. A merry christmas and a happy new year to
you all! Enjoy the levelpack, and untill next
time! =)
(Note: CelL has also created his own readme, just to increase the size of
the level pack and push it one more step towards
the 2mb J2o upload limit...)
Enigma on Merry Hypothermia"
Further thanks go to Cell and WR, for crushing my childish optimism about
this level by
pointing out a huge number of bugs. People who ask where the seeker powerup
is will be
shot without any form of trial (meaning that there is no seeker powerup,
learn to play
without it) and people who point out any more bugs beyond this point will
be put in sealed
plastic bags along with a dozen rabid weasels and locked in their basements
until after the
level has been released.
That said, enjoy the level. Or don't. Have it your way.
(Note: Enigma has also created his own readme, just to increase the size of
the level pack and push it one more step towards
the 2mb J2o upload limit...)
LabRatKid on Algid Jollification: Unfortunatley, LabRatKid missed gg no
re's upload and could therefore not write anything
about his level in time.
LabRatKid on Hyperborean Biosphere: Same as for above.
Unhit on Worst Christmas Level Ever:
I barely had any time at all to make my level, so I just made it on the
very first day of my holidays - today. Therefore I
decided to give the lvl this name which fits probably. It's no good level,
but maybe it creates some christmas atmosphere
anyway. no re ;D
Dalspots on Blizzard Catastrophy:
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Credits:
Epic: For making JJ2, the Holiday Hare 98 tilesets, 3 awesome Christmas
music files and that's about it.
Violet: For making the JJ1 Holidauis converion.
Disuise: For the Winterland Wonder tileset. Enigma had trouble dealing with
the masking of it. A cliff kept slowing people
down when you hit it with a spring. :-P
LabRatKid: For making his Commander Keen conversion Keen 4 Ice.
grymmjack: For the music Whole New World.
Fernus: For composing chaos Surprise, which takes up about half of the
level pack... :-S
Jeroen Tel: For composing Mountain Breeze.
Unknown composer: For composing Winters. Please don't sue us just because
we didn't mention your name. We're more
grateful thank you think. ;-)
The whole Total Freaks Clan: For providing you with 50 megatonnes worth of
the nuclear...er...level material you're currently
sitting on. LabRatKid has been thanked twice now... :-D
Everyone in the JJ2 community for downloading and playing this level pack,
for their own level contributions of which we at
TF could learn from and for...well, other nice stuff. :-D
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Final words, written by the Total Freaks' official mascot, :gg: -
"Well, I can't make levels, I don't play JJ2 so all I can say is 'gg no
re'!"
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