                                Stevie Dotman
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                  By Matthew Westcott (Gasman of Raww Arse)

The Game
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Inspired by the Lunar Lander / Thrust genre of games, the game involves
navigating Stevie (a particularly charismatic string of dots) around each
cavern, into the exit square. Along the way, there's diamonds to collect, and
fuel to top up your rapidly decreasing supply. For the full instructions, see
the Readme program in dotman.tap.

This 'package' contains:
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readme.txt:     The full schematics of the Sinclair Loki. Honest.
dotman.tap      The Stevie Dotman designer program (v2.0).
dotlev.tap      The levels for the game, 50 in total.

The levels are in no particular order. Some are easy, some are hard, some may
well be impossible, and at least one is downright unfinished. In fact,
there's not really any structure to the game at all. Want to know why?
Read on...

About the program
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The Stevie Dotman project was started in 1996. The partially-successful plan
was to release a program for designing levels (that's the one you've got
here), so people could send their creations to me, and at some point I would
write the full game, containing all the levels. I never did get round to
doing a proper *game* version of it, and it's unlikely that I ever will. So,
rather than leaving the level files to rot in a disc box, I've decided to
release them all. And here it is - the final version of Stevie Dotman.

        "Hey, how come I never heard about this?"
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When the designer program was released, there wasn't really much I could do
to promote it, other than the occasional mention in the Speccy fanzines.
I did mention it to a number of people individually, too, but the response
tended to be "sorry, it's not the kind of thing I'm good at." Of course, I
knew that there were plenty of people who were good at it, especially
considering the number of people who have come up with whole new versions of
Manic Miner and Jet Set Willy! It would have been useful to have been on the
net at the time, I guess...
Nevertheless, the few positive responses were very generous, and it's thanks
to these people that you're reading this now.

        "No problem, I'll do some levels for you!"
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Well, feel free to create some, and I hope you enjoy doing so, but I won't be
making a proper version of the game, even if there's a massive response from
this release. Basically, if I ever write a game, it's going to be something
bigger and better than this.

Credits
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Written by Matthew Westcott
Technical help: Graham Collier
Bits and pieces: Garry Rowland (PFN font system),
                 Menno van der Star (Arrow routine)

Levels: This is going purely from memory, so apologies to those involved if
        I've miscredited a couple...

        Daniel Abson: Levels 1, 2, 32, 33
        Dave Fountain: Levels 4, 5
        Peter Fryatt: Levels 22 - 31
        Paul Howard: Levels 6 - 21, 34
        Rachel Walmsley: Level 39
        Matthew Westcott: Levels 3, 35-38, 40, 41, 42
        Yerzmyey: Levels 43 - 50

                                Enjoy...

                                Matthew Westcott
                                gasman@raww.org
                                http://www.demo.eu.org/
