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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
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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,
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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
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port contains a number of enhancements to the original C-Dogs, including high-resolution support, local multiplayer up to four players, enhanced graphics and
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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
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Multiple campaigns - 5 included, with user-created missions available for download online. Missions also include short story-driven briefings.
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multiplayer. In October 2015, C-Dogs SDL was updated to SDL2. Version 1.0.0 released on August 21, 2021, with support for
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of Cyberdogs (minus some libraries he had licensed) on his website. In 2002, Wester released the
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motivated Wester to write a sequel, which was released between the years 1997 to 2001 as
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where players work cooperatively during missions, and against each other in "dogfight"
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However, the feature to buy and sell weapons and ammo between levels was removed.
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More NPC types: friendlies that attack enemies, hostages, and neutral civilians
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Following the source code release in 2002, Jeremy Chin and Lucas Martin-King
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With the source code availability and the initial SDL port, the game was
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Compared to Cyberdogs, C-Dogs includes the following enhancements:
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by Mike MacDee on hardcoregaming101.net (May 25, 2017)
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More weapons, including different types of grenades
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MS-DOS
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Action
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multiplayer

shoot 'em up
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deathmatch
cooperative player
split-screen
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gamepads
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