

1997 · Arcade · Indie
C-Dogs
Classic overhead run-and-gun, supporting 2 player co-op or deathmatch. Customize your player, choose from many weapons, and blast, slide and slash your way through 5 unique campaigns. There is also a campaign editor and hundreds of user-submitted custom campaigns to try.
- Released
- 1997
- Platforms
- AndroidLinuxMS-DOSWindowsmacOS
- Genres
- ArcadeIndieRun and gunShooter
- Developers
- —
- Publishers
- —
- Modes
- MultiplayerSingle-player
- Perspective
- Bird view / Isometric
- Themes
- ActionScience fiction
About
C-Dogs, the sequel to Cyberdogs, is a shoot 'em up video game where players work cooperatively during missions and against each other in "dogfight" deathmatch mode.
Keywords
- shoot 'em up
- open-source
- freeware
- real time game clock
Media
The articlegameplay, story, development, reception
Gameplay
In C-Dogs, players play through a number of campaigns made of a variable number of missions. Each mission has a selection of weapons and different objectives, such as killing enemies, collecting items, destroying objects, or rescuing a hostages. The campaigns can be played by a single player or with one cooperative player. Other features include color-coded keys to access locked rooms, friendly characters, and neutral civilians that penalize the players if attacked.
C-Dogs also includes a 2-player, split-screen deathmatch mode called "dogfight": players attempt to kill each other for a fixed number of rounds, and the player winning the most rounds wins. Players can be controlled by keyboard, joysticks or gamepads.
Development
The creator of C-Dogs, Ronny Wester, released the precursor to C-Dogs, Cyberdogs, in 1994. The popularity of Cyberdogs and the limitations of its 16-bit protected mode motivated Wester to write a sequel, which was released between the years 1997 to 2001 as freeware.
In 2000 Wester released the Borland Pascal 7 source code of Cyberdogs (minus some libraries he had licensed) on his website. In 2002, Wester released the source code of C-Dogs to the public. As of June 2007, Wester no longer maintains a website for C-Dogs but the game continues to live on via the C-Dogs SDL project hosted on GitHub. In April 2016, Wester released the game assets as CC-BY.
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