Dweep

Dweep is a puzzle game published in 1999 by Dexterity Software.

For other uses, see Dweep (disambiguation).
Dweep
Publisher(s)Dexterity Software
Platform(s)Windows
ReleaseJune 1, 1999[1]
Genre(s)Puzzle

Gameplay

Dweep is a cute and cuddly purple creature who must negotiate a series of dangerous obstacles to rescue defenseless baby Dweeps.

Obstacles include lasers, heat plates, bombs, and lots of other hazards. Dweep must bypass these using only available non-violent tools such as mirrors, wrenches, and buckets of water. The non-violent, mentally challenging nature of the game was a deliberate design feature.[2]

The game package contains 30 original game levels plus one secret bonus level. Dweep Gold also includes 5 free bonus levels and 2 expansion packs (20 levels each), as well as a number of custom levels.

Awards
  • Dweep won the 2000 Shareware Industry Award.[3]
  • The expansion pack, Dweep Gold, won the 2001 Shareware Industry Award for Best Action/Arcade Game.[4] (beating out Arkanoid for the honour)

Credit

Dweep was created and programmed by Steve Pavlina, with music by Michael Huang. Pavlina describes the process he used to create the game in one of the posts on his blog, www.stevepavlina.com

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gollark: ```Features:- Fortunes/Dwarf Fortress output/Chuck Norris jokes on boot (wait, IS this a feature?)- (other) viruses (how do you get them in the first place? running random files like this?) cannot do anything particularly awful to your computer - uninterceptable (except by crashing the keyboard shortcut daemon, I guess) keyboard shortcuts allow easy wiping of the non-potatOS data so you can get back to whatever nonsense you do fast- Skynet (rednet-ish stuff over websocket to my server) and Lolcrypt (encoding data as lols and punctuation) built in for easy access!- Convenient OS-y APIs - add keyboard shortcuts, spawn background processes & do "multithreading"-ish stuff.- Great features for other idio- OS designers, like passwords and fake loading (set potatOS.stupidity.loading [time], set potatOS.stupidity.password [password]).- Digits of Tau available via a convenient command ("tau")- Potatoplex and Loading built in ("potatoplex"/"loading") (potatoplex has many undocumented options)!- Stack traces (yes, I did steal them from MBS)- Backdoors- er, remote debugging access (it's secured, via ECC signing on disks and websocket-only access requiring a key for the other one)- All this useless random junk can autoupdate (this is probably a backdoor)!- EZCopy allows you to easily install potatOS on another device, just by sticking it in the disk drive of another potatOS device!- fs.load and fs.dump - probably helpful somehow.```
gollark: ```PotatOS OS/Conveniently Self-Propagating System/Sandbox/Compilation of Useless Programs We are not responsible for- headaches- rashes- persistent/non-persistent coughs- virii- backdoors- spinal cord sclerosis- hypertension- cardiac arrest- regular arrest, by police or whatever- angry mobs with or without pitchforks- death- computronic discombobulation- loss of data- gain of data- frogsor any other issue caused directly or indirectly due to use of this product. Best viewed in Internet Explorer 6 running on a Difference Engine emulated under MacOS 7.```
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References
  1. "Self-Discipline: Hard Work". 2005-06-08. Retrieved 9 June 2015.
  2. "Creativity for Smart People". 2006-03-05. Retrieved 9 June 2015.
  3. "2000-1992 SIA Winners". Shareware Industry Awards. Archived from the original on 2 June 2007. Retrieved 9 June 2015.
  4. "2001 Winners and Nominees". Shareware Industry Awards. Archived from the original on 13 May 2008. Retrieved 9 June 2015.
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