Norp the Yorp 3: Brain Damage



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Getting Started
Controls
How to Play
Story
Creatures
Items
Hazards
Credits


Getting Started

First, extract this zip file into your Keen 3 directory, you don't need to worry about writing over any files, because it won't. Next, drag your Keen 3 exe onto the UNLZEXE to decompress it. This is necessary to play the mod. Now, depending on whether you have version 1.0 of Keen 3 or version 1.31, you'll run one of the two batch files I have included. If you have Keen 3v1.0, run NORP3v10.bat. If you have Keen3v1.31, run NORP3v131.bat. If you don't know, than just try them both, one of them will work and the other won't. :) You can still play the original Keen 3 by running your Keen3 exe. VERY IMPORTANT: This has been known to have problems running on some computers, because the sprites were too big. I have made three folders labeled 1, 2, and 3. Two vital files lie in each one of those folders, each subsequently smaller than the first. So, first copy the files in folder 1 into the base folder. If Norp runs for you without getting the error message "Out of memory! Try unloading your TSRs!" then you're lucky. If you do get that message, replace the files you just copied with the ones in folder 2. If that fails, try folder 3. If you still are getting that error message, contact me.


Controls

The default controls are as follows:

Move left and right: left and right arrows
Jump: Ctrl
Toggle pogo: Alt
Spit a laser: Ctrl + Alt
Toggle sound: F2
Save (only on the map): F5
Status Screen: Space

On the map world, use the arrow keys to navigate, and press Ctrl to enter a level or go through a pore ().
Some of these keys can be redefined in the game.


How to Play

As Norp the Yorp, you must find your way out of Mortimer's body, but along the way, you want to hurt him as much as possible. In each area of tissue you enter, there is one brain cell you must destroy which will immediately kill every creature in the surrounding tissue area and end the level.


Story

Commander Keen is still at his never ending galactic Senate meeting, and will be quite annoyed to find out the his pet yorp has lost Billy's most prized possession - his Bean-with-Bacon Megarocket. Oops.

In our last episode Norp went aboard a solar bomb Mortimer McMire had set up to destroy the solar system. Luckily Norp defused it and foiled Mortimer's plans. But Norp was sent out into space and landed on a desolate asteroid orbiting the moon. And what did he see over the horizon? Another factory set up by Mortimer.

Norp wants to destroy Mortimer once and for all. It was Mortimer that ruined his vacation in the first place, and it was Mortimer's fault that he was stuck here. Norp starts running towards the building, and what does he see? A giant Mortimer, walking across the ground! Ten stories tall he stood, a gargantuan figure towering above Norp.

"Bu-but-t, h-how?" stammered Norp.

Mortimer chuckled and answered, "Oh, I've developed my own little formula. Goodbye." And he picked Norp up, tossed him in his mouth, and swallowed him whole. Norp, in a state of panic, squirmed around, and found his way through a hole that looked a little like a pore. He ended up in a labyrinth of tunnels, facing strange and dangerous creatures.


Creatures

Mortimer's body is quite different than an average human body. Viruses do not hurt it, but work in unison with white blood cells.

Bodily creatures
White Blood CellThese will stop at nothing to destroy you, the intruder. Watch out for the pellets they shoot. The take one hit to kill, and are not dangerous to touch.
PlateletsThese are harmless creatures, and will meld into the tissue of Mortimer at the slightest touch.
Red Blood CellThese bounce around aimlessly through levels, but they don't harm you.
Carrier ProteinThese could prove quite useful, and they can carry you from place to place.
Brain CellYou need to find and destroy this the close out a level. It only takes one shot.
Viruses and Bacteria
DentiliocThe most common virus that inhabits Mortimer's body is the Dentilioc. It takes only one shot to kill, but its jumping wandering manner can get on your nerves.
Flagellic FooThese pink bug-like blobs can't hurt you, but the can stun you, leaving you vulnerable. They take one shot to kill.
HornicusAlso common is the Hornicus, which although it is harmless itself, it shoots Virons, small bug-like creatures at you. It takes five shots to kill
VironThe tiny bug a Hornicus shoots at you. One shot destroys it.
LoctiperThe Loctiper is extremely dangerous. They can leap a mile high, and they're hard to kill, taking four shots.
Siliac FooSiliac Foos tear through levels, and won't stop for anything in their paths. Stay away from them, because they're invulnerable.
VirooLittle bug-like creatures that sometimes guard a brain cell. One shot to kill.



Items

Ribosome: 100 Pts
Lysosome: 200 Pts
Vacuole: 500 Pts
Mitochondrion: 1000 Pts
Yorp-Shaped Cell: 5000 Pts
Power Charges allow Norp to shoot lasers.
Power Charge: 1 Laser
Power Charge Cell: 5 Lasers
Mortimer has taken a drug to make himself stronger and bigger. Particles float around through his body. If you get one, it will give you about ten seconds of invincibility.
Plasmutrino Particle: 10 sec invincibility
Certain strands of DNA are missing vital parts. You cannot pass them until you bring the missing part.


Hazards

Pulsating Heart: A deadly pulsating blue sac.
Bluebobs: These blue sacs come in groups and squirt out a deadly green gas.


Credits

Thanks to
Andrew Durdin for the fantastic programs he's made: Modkeen, KeenEdit, Fin2Bmp, and TileInfo.
Thanks also to Bryan Rodgers (Admiral Bob) for CKPatch, an excellent tool that helped make my mod what it is.
Also thanks to ceilick, he drew the Loctiper sprite for me.
Finally, thanks to Christian Maas who wrote the hex editor I used for patching.

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