He devised the Comix Zone concept after joining his co-workers on one of their trips to a shop in Palo Alto, California. Many of Morawiec's fellow STI developers were comic book fans and made monthly trips to local comic shops. Button C on a 6-button gamepad is used for a custom action, blocking by default on a 3-button gamepad, Sketch blocks automatically.Ĭomix Zone was conceived by the Sega Technical Institute (STI) programmer Peter Morawiec. If used with a 3-button gamepad, button C cycles through the items, and button A activates the item. Comix Zone is designed to be used with the 6-button gamepad: buttons X, Y and Z correspond to the three inventory slots Sketch has. However, the player can gain extra chances by clearing the first and second chapters, which allow Sketch to resume from the beginning of the page should he die. If Sketch loses all his life, or falls down a bottomless pit, the game will end and Mortus will take his place in the real world. It will also diminish as Sketch punches through breakable objects or if he uses his paper plane move. Sketch's health is determined by a health bar, which is diminished when Sketch is damaged by enemies or obstacles. Arrows will then appear, allowing Sketch to jump to another panel, with some areas offering multiple routes. In order to progress through the pages, Sketch often has to either successfully solve a puzzle, or defeat all the enemies within that panel. Sketch can also tear off the backdrop into a paper plane to throw at enemies, but this costs health and can also hurt Sketch if he's not careful. His pet rat Roadkill can discover hidden items and access areas that are too dangerous for Sketch to reach. Along with weapons such as bombs and knives which can also be used to destroy obstacles, Sketch can pick up iced tea to restore his health, and a fist that transforms Sketch into Super Sketch, dealing a powerful attack on all on-screen enemies. Along with standard attacks such as punching, kicking and jump attacks, Sketch can store up to three items in his inventory to help him overcome obstacles. Each level consists of two pages and secrets are discovered by shredding the paper and revealing items. Gameplay Ĭomix Zone is an action platformer in which players control Sketch as he progresses through panels of his comic book, hoping to reach the end and escape before his own creations finish him off. The ending also implies that he re-creates his comic to ensure a happy ending. Sketch and Roadkill come out, but Sketch's comic is destroyed, leaving him devastated at having saved the New World Empire, but failed to save Alissa. ĭefeating Mortus after the chamber fills with liquid, Alissa dies as the nuke self-destructs. Comix Zone becomes an instant sensation, selling out on the first day, making Sketch famous as it becomes the best-selling comic book ever. Roadkill is given a vast amount of mozzarella cheese, and spends a lot of time exploring the city's new sewer system when not sleeping under a pile of Sketch's dirty socks. If the player defeats Mortus and the Kreeps he summons as he takes damage quickly enough to drain the liquid and save Alissa before the nuke self-destructs, an ending occurs where Alissa comes to the real world with Sketch and Roadkill and joins the army, eventually becoming Chief of Security for the United States. At the end of the game, Alissa attempts to defuse a nuclear weapon that Mortus and the Mutants plan on using to wipe out the New World Empire and humanity, when Mortus comes back into the comic and throws her into the chamber, which starts to fill up with liquid. It is up to Sketch to stop Mortus's evil plans and find a way out of his own comic world. Ignoring Sketch's protests, Alissa sends him on his mission, keeping in touch with instructions and hints via radio. Inside the comic book, Sketch meets General Alissa Cyan, who believes he is "the chosen one" who came to save their post-apocalyptic world from the evil of Mortus and the alien invaders. Because he does not possess any power in reality, Mortus sends Sketch into the world of his own comic, freely drawing in enemies attempting to kill him. In this instant, its main villain, a powerful mutant named Mortus, escapes the comic book's pages, desiring to kill Sketch so he can become flesh and blood and take over the real world. One night, while Sketch is working on Comix Zone during a thunderstorm, a lightning bolt strikes a panel of his comic. It is the story of the New World Empire's attempt to defend Earth from an invasion of alien renegades, with inspiration coming from Sketch's oddly vivid dreams and nightmares. Sketch Turner, a " starving artist" and freelance rock musician living in New York City, is working on his newest comic book, Comix Zone. Screenshot from the first "page" of Comix Zone
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