In addition, the theme didn't immediately clonk me on the head.
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"Rare" coasts over several interlocking electronic and acoustic drums — thwack, rattle, snap, clonk!
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Is your cousin a time traveller, or did you clonk your head and lose half a decade?
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I don't have to win to get the comedy of watching others, and myself, trying desperately to clonk each other with a big sword.
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I had a few people watching me and was a bit worried I was accidentally going to clonk someone in the head — but besides that, I was totally immersed.
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That's the core of it: Instead of wildly firing an uzi hoping to score a lucky win, you're wildly swinging an executioner's sword hoping to clonk an enemy in the head with it.
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Between 1994 and 1996 RedWolf Design, with the German lead developer Matthes Bender, created four Clonk games for the MS-DOS/PC platform. The games of the series were released and commercialized as Shareware. In 1999 RedWolf released their first Windows Clonk game, Clonk 4 (in retail release under the name Clonk World). Starting from 2001, RedWolf Design stopped development of the 2D engine based Clonk Planet and started developing Clonk Extreme with the Torque Game Engine.
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Stellungnahme von Matthes Bender zur CX-Entwicklung im clonk.de-Forum (in German) Development of Clonk Rage has been continued until May 2014. In 2014 the forums of Clonk have been closed,clonk.
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Later, in 2003, RedWolf Design revived the series 2D branch by collaborating with the GWE team and derived the next official Clonk title called "Clonk Endeavour" from the previous GWE 4. The new Clonk title Clonk Endeavour got positive attention when it was presented on the Games Convention in Leipzig and won a newcomer contest held by GIGA TV. Clonk Endeavour was sold in the CD version for €25 and as digital download for €15.Clonk Endeavour 4.95.4: Mit Drachen und Zauberei in die vierte Runde on openpr.de (in German, October 17, 2005) The development continued, and several extensions such as a new network architecture for faster internet games and a fullscreen menu system were being developed.
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Clonk Rage: Review on gbase.de by Daniel Schneider (in German) A Russian game magazine's review called Clonk Planet "a plotless masterpiece" comparable with Tetris and Lemmings.САЙТ GAMELAND ONLINE (www.gameland.
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Logo of OpenClonk OpenClonk is an open source continuation based on "Clonk Rage" by a community of Clonk enthusiasts and former Clonk developers alike. It is not officially developed by RedWolf Design. OpenClonk is licensed under the ISC license with the content under CC BY-SA (or more permissive).What_is_the_license_for_OpenClonk on openclonk.
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The development led to a new sequel, Clonk Rage, which became the officially current version on May 5, 2008. Its predecessor, Clonk Endeavour, was released as Freeware a couple of days later.clonk.de Clonk Endeavour freeware announcement (dead link) The other 3D development branch, Clonk Exreme, progressed slowly, and in 2008 only early alpha versions, some screenshotsClonk Homepage CX screenshot section and one preview videoYouTube CX early hoppers of the game were available. Clonk Extreme was announced with a release date in 2050, but it was later found to be an April Fools' Day joke. However, In 2009 RedWolf Design's leader Matthes Bender announced he would be working on other projects, and the Clonk Extreme development was frozen without probable continuing development.
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Many players have used these options and created extension packs, which can be downloaded from the fan sites. The Comprehensive Clonk Archive Network (short: CCAN) is one of central hubs for the Clonk community to share self-made extensions for the game. Also, extensions for older (freeware) versions of Clonk can be downloaded there.
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"Clonk Extreme" - short "ClonkX" - was supposed to transform the game principle of Clonk into a 3D-game. It is also the first game title that doesn't support the digging mechanic. On the development end of Clonk Planet, the source code of its 2D engine was released, which attracted a team of players who developed Clonk Planet: Golden Wipf Edition - short GWE. Within this fan-project, several sorely missed features have been implemented, such as more editability and modern 32-bit color graphics.
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In 2004 Clonk Endeavour got some attention when it was presented on the Games Convention in Leipzig and won a newcomer contest held by GIGA TV.Indigo (GC) 2004: Games Convention Tag Sechs on Developia by Mathias Kanitz and Alexander Krug (in German, August 24, 2006, archived) In 2007 German computer magazine Computerbild.de lists Clonk Planet with 4/5 stars.Clonk planet on computerbild.de (in German) German gaming website gbase.de reviewed Clonk Rage in 2009 and gave 7.5/10 points.
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Professor Clonk tries to coax Fido to stop delaying the progress of science, but Fido, still refusing to go first tries pretending he isn't Fido and shows his master pictures of his family (including a wife whom Professor Clonk finds extremely attractive). Woody Woodpecker enters the scene as a volunteer telegram delivery man and presents a telegram to Professor Clonk, informing him of an overdue phone bill ("Roses are red. Violets are blue. If you don't pay your phone bill, the company will sue").
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Envoy Extraordinary is a 1956 novella by William Golding, published along with Clonk Clonk and The Scorpion God in the collection The Scorpion God. Envoy Extraordinary is set in Ancient Rome, in and around the Emperor's court. The aged Emperor lives with his favourite grandson, the seventeen-year-old Mamillius. The true heir, Posthumus, is governor of a distant province, but is jealous of Mamillius.
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Upon arriving in Los Angeles, the rocket zips around the Los Angeles City Hall and crashes into the top floor, where the scientists of the Interplanetary Rocket Society (plus Fido) are having their latest meeting. Dingledong crashes through the table and right into Professor Clonk, at which both professors shout out each other's names to each other (indicating Dingledong was part of the society). In the last scene, angered that he'd been sent to the Moon for nothing, Dingledong ties Professor Clonk to a large firework rocket (labeled "Moon or bust") and (as Woody watches) lights the fuse, launching Professor Clonk to the Moon. As Dingledong walks away and says goodbye to Woody, we see a firework rocket (fuse already lit) tied to his back, which launches him to the Moon after his former superior.
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Professor Clonk is offended by the telegram, but after Woody points out his volunteer work, this gives Professor Clonk an idea to have Woody be the next astronaut. Straight afterwards, at the rocket launching site, the society members wish Woody "bon voyage" and are immediately charred (while still on the gantry) as Woody blasts off in the rocket. While traveling through space, Woody opens the hatches to let a Sputnik satellite (with clotheslines) pass through. The rocket then lands safely on the Moon, where we see the remains of Professor Dingledong's rocket (complete with mailbox and sidewalk canopy) and that Dingledong is still alive.
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Nobel Prize laureate William Golding wrote a number of historical novels. The Inheritors (1955) is set in prehistoric times, and shows "new people" (generally identified with Homo sapiens sapiens) triumphing over a gentler race (generally identified with Neanderthals) by deceit and violence. The Spire (1964) follows the building (and near collapse) of a huge spire onto a medieval cathedral (generally assumed to be Salisbury Cathedral); the spire symbolizing both spiritual aspiration and worldly vanity. The Scorpion God (1971) consists of three novellas, the first set in a prehistoric African hunter-gatherer band (Clonk, Clonk), the second in an ancient Egyptian court (The Scorpion God) and the third in the court of a Roman emperor (Envoy Extraordinary).
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It defined the bleep techno sound, by making playful use of sampled sounds from Yellow Magic Orchestra's Computer Game (1978) and the film Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977).Dan Sicko, Bill Brewster: Techno Rebels: The Renegades of Electronic Funk. Wayne State University, 2010, The next release was "Clonk", also on Warp. For both singles, remix versions were released.
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One problem with this system is that once the spring or the top plate becomes worn, the driver of a car with this system may hear a loud "clonk" noise at full lock (i.e. steering wheel turned to the extreme left or extreme right positions), as the strut's spring jumps back into place. This noise is often confused with CV-joint knock.
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The expandability of the games is a core gameplay aspect and feature of the Clonk series. Several extensions were made over the years and offered for the registered users of the game. There are medieval (Knights), futuristic (Hazard), fantasy and "Cowboys and Indians" (Western) themed packs available. An elaborated scenario extension is Far worlds which features the deep sea, jungle and Arctic.
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Clonk is a single player and multiplayer computer game series. The games feature a mix of the action, real-time strategy and platform game genres. Developed between 1994 and 2014 by RedWolf Design the games of the series were originally released as Shareware and became around 2008/2014 Freeware and open source software. The game's community develops since then the series under the name OpenClonk.
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OpenClonk development began with the release of the source of Clonk Rage in February 2009 and a later release under the ISC license in May 2009.OpenClonk git repository: COPYING The website `www.openclonk.org` was founded at the same time, acting as a portal for both development and for players. The source code and game content were hosted first using a Mercurial repository, but nowadays using a Git repository.
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Arty Ash Real name Arthur Richard Dodge (14 April 1895 - 6 February 1954) was a British actor.Arty Ash at BFI Database He is well known for appearing with Leslie Sarony in Clonk! (1928), a short comedy film made in the Phonofilm sound-on-film process.Clonk! at BFI Database Ash was born Arthur Richard Dodge in 1895, at Lambeth, London, England to Arthur Oliver Dodge and Mary Jane Dodge (nee Nidd).
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Additionally, many unofficial extensions have been created by players. One example is the modern military-combat extension called "First Aid Pack", which includes various weapons, vehicles, and scenarios in a modern-combat setting. Since the release of Clonk Planet, players may start a development of their own extension by using the integrated developer mode. It's possible to add new objects (such as Clonks, weapons, buildings, etc.), scenarios or complete packs such as the official Extensions.
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In Clonk, the player controls small, humanoid beings - the so-called Clonks - within a two-dimensional, dynamically modifiable landscape using keyboard or mouse. Clonks interact with their surrounding landscape, animals, weather, buildings and objects. The game can be played alone or in multiplayer in split-screen or via local network or Internet. Four different keyboard settings, combined with the option of using a mouse or gamepad, result in allowing up to six players on one computer.
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The Spire (1964) follows the building (and near collapse) of a huge spire onto a medieval cathedral (generally assumed to be Salisbury Cathedral); the spire symbolizing both spiritual aspiration and worldly vanity. In his 1967 novel The Pyramid three separate stories in a shared setting (a small English town in the 1920s) are linked by a narrator, and The Scorpion God (1971) consists of three novellas, the first set in a prehistoric African hunter-gatherer band ('Clonk, Clonk'), the second in an ancient Egyptian court ('The Scorpion God') and the third in the court of a Roman emperor ('Envoy Extraordinary'). The last of these reworks his 1958 play The Brass Butterfly. His later novels include Darkness Visible (1979), which is about a terrorist group, a paedophile teacher, and a mysterious angel-like figure who survives a fire in the Blitz, The Paper Men (1984) which is about the conflict between a writer and his biographer, and a sea trilogy To the Ends of the Earth, which includes Rites of Passage (1980), Close Quarters (1987), and Fire Down Below (1989), the first book of which (originally intended as a stand-alone novel) won the Booker Prize.
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The landscape is constructed out of different materials like earth, tunnel, sky, coal, ore, gold and water. Players can destroy these materials by digging or explosions for solid materials and by using gravity or pumps for liquids. The various in- game objects and tools available to the clonk allow for a dynamical gameplay. Gameplay is focused around two elements: In settlement rounds the players need to cooperate and build up large settlements to perform certain tasks like mining gold or constructing a legendary statue, and in melee rounds players battle each other in small arenas.
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The cartoon opens with a narrative about man's desire to break away from Earth and explore outer space (the Moon being the first goal in this quest). After many unsuccessful attempts to launch rockets to the Moon (including three scientists trying to launch a typical firework rocket that blows up in their faces), Professor Dingledong becomes the first man to reach the Moon, but, two years later, hasn't returned to Earth. In the present day, at the Interplanetary Rocket Society, Professor P. Cosmo Clonk asks the other scientists if one of them will volunteer for the next manned mission to the Moon. The scientists just look at each other until it boils down to Fido, the society's mascot, but Fido gulps and immediately pretends to have the measles.
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