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P+D: The Search for Pepe
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Genre:Action/Story/Remake/Why
Author:Unknown, remake by Agent Orange
Year: 1995? 1996? / remake 2022

Made for the Special Edition Jam hosted by PogeSoft.

Pepe+Dogo: The Search For Pepe was just one of many lost games uncovered by asie from the AOL ZZT archives. This was as much a story as a game, where the author was clearly more interested in telling us about Pepe, Dogo, Denver Dawg et al and their hangouts rather than having us shoot ZZT creatures or solve puzzles. 

As I played it, the game's world-building conjured a vivid image of a cartoon 'alley', the kind you'd see in classic Hollywood cartoons where funny animal cats and dogs (stray but also tame) hang out and do funny animal things. As basic as the game's graphics were, they still struck a chord with me. I am especially fond of the author's abstraction of a cat.

Hence this Special Edition, which is more a Hamlet to the original's Ur-Hamlet than what the ZZT community thinks of as a Special Edition. As a cat person, tackling a dog-heavy story was unusual but I think I did a good job representing them (e.g. no references to canine stupidity, no butt-sniffing jokes).

In keeping with the setting I imagined the game to be, I explicitly set it in a faux-hardboiled world with tough guys and period-appropriate slang. A short glossary of hardboiled slang compiled by William Denton, available online at https://www.miskatonic.org/slang.html, was most helpful.

I hope you enjoy it. 

The author can be reached for comments on the Discord of ZZT as PogeSoft.

Alternatively, visit the company page at pogesoft.itch.io.
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