Here's the outline:
Dave outline
Level 1
1) Dave's arrival
2) Robert reaches higher ground
3) Durandal's first contact with Dave
Level 2
1)Dave reaches the cargo elevator
2)George becomes rampant.
Level 3
1) Dave reaches communication tower
2) Durandal's second contact
Level 4
1) Johnny is deactivated
2) Robert is sent to the Pfhor warship
Level 5
1) Dave is sent to the Pfhor warship
Level 6
1) Durandal arrives
Level 7
1) Dave and Robert return to the ship
2) Durandal speaks to Dave
Level 8
1) Dinky becomes nuts and interfers (yes, interfers)
2) Dave gets the fusion pistol
Level 9
1) Dave's first time in vacuum
Level 10
1) Dinky takes measures
2) Buzz Alan takes leadership
3) Buzz talks to Dave
4) The "Guardians" message Dave
Level 11
Level 12
1) Dave takes action on the Pfhor warship
Level 13
1) Dave arrives at the colony (hell)
2) Dave meets Charlotte
3) Buzz speaks to Dave again
4) Psycho is furious
5) Dinky still lives
6) Flintlock destroyed
Level 14
1) Dave discovers a mine on the colony
Level 15
1) Dinky strikes again
2) Psycho hurts Charlotte
3) Robert goes into stasis
4) The colony is a coverup
Level 16
1) Dave defeats Dinky
2) "Guardians" message Dave
3) Dave D.R.E.A.M.S.
Level 17
1) Dream
Level 18
1) Dave saves the surviving group of humans
2) Charlotte becomes worse
Level 19
1) Dave clears new base
2) Dave learns of all the AIs
Level 20
Since it's been about 2 years, I thought I would talk about Dave. The bad things, the good things, and the lost things. So here I go:
A poor excuse for a story, ridiculously high goals, and having chosen M1 to make my first scenario for the community, I was doomed to failure.
First of all the story: when I look back at it, Dave feels like a rip-off of the original Marathon with some original elements that weren't good enough. Sure, Dave could haven been a great hero for some, if he wasn't a Lego character originally who was meant to be dumb and funny. Also, HES BALD!!! Despite the poor story, at least it had one. My previous stuff (even worse) never had terminals that even worked, making it that I had to tell the story to whoever decided to play it. This was more or less my first success with it.
I really should have made something smaller. Another factor that led to Dave's failure was that I planned way to big for a team of one. I did not have the ability to make something that large.
The factor that pretty much did Dave in was that, because I chose M1, I backed myself into a corner that I wasn't going to be able to get myself out of. As a low-level mapper, there's only so much you can do with M1, or I just sucked at mapping with M1. Either one, I limited myself so much that I burned out. You can only make a room with a table in it so many times before it gets old.
With those reasons, one would think Dave had been a complete waste of time. Not true. Through all of it, Dave had some important successes that came with it.
One of the successes was terminals (mentioned earlier). For some reason, I couldn't figure out how the terminals worked. It was with Dave and another work that terminals finally were usable; however, there was one problem: my Forge couldn't seem to merge more than 3 terminals in a map. If there were more, Forge would fail in merging.
Another success was overlapping. I would cross over a rectangle with a rectangle in the past, but never large areas. Dave changed this, making them last a little bit longer.
My first experiments with lighting started here as well. Although I learned how to do my own lights, I failed with shading. It was either really bright, dim, or really dark.
In the end, Dave got wins and also losses, but there were some things that either never came about or were never really mentioned before:
The last part of the story, I felt, was going to be the best in the story. I thought it was going to be really interesting. I don't really remember all the details anymore, other than getting into the Guardians and an evil group, but back then I thought it was going to be good. Two levels into the colony, I burned out and was unable to finish. I feel disappointed in the fact that I hardly did anything with Charlotte. You don't see many female A.I.s in Marathon. I also wanted to see Dave kill Dinky. Dinky was such a stupid character.
You see Robert in the outline? You were going to play as him in a separate scenario. Like it wasn't enough to play as Dave, but I would have also given you the chance to play as another character! Signs of it are in Dave. One of them being a room with ammo in it, a terminal, with the door locked. Awful idea.
Sequels. Who comes up with sequels before finishing the first!? Let alone plan for four! Better yet, the fourth would have either used Rubicon or Eternal, each with a different story approach, without asking for permission. Worse than the side scenario.
There's a reason I didn't really call Dave demo Marathon Dave at first. That's because there already had been a Marathon Dave that was made in Infinity. It was never uploaded, instead trashed. That was the first time I used terminals, and also the first time I learned about the issue with the terminals, hence why it's trashed. It was also awful, using something from my first maps: The Yellow Ship. Entirely textured in yellow, I think my sister was involved with it.
I don't think the demo on Simplici7y has all the maps I made for Dave. The last upload I made for Dave, dubbed beta due to so many maps being in it, was uploaded on TBCROnline. Since I can do music now, I might revise it, but it probably will be just as poor.
Well, I think that's enough rambling. Hopefully you guys learned something new, or at least got a laugh out of how naive I was back then. Since you checked this thread out, I'll give you a screenshot:
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