This is what happens when you give an eleven-year-old a game engine!

Like many others, I dreamed of making games when I was a kid. I liked several genres, but FPS games were probably my favorite. At the time the only programming I had done was batch file scripting (and I did not even know that was programming), and some QBasic. So creating the games I envisioned seemed hopeless.

One day, while using a local BBS, I stumbled upon the "Pie in the Sky Software Game Creation System." The authors claimed that someone with no programming knowledge could create first-person shooters with it. So I ran to my parents and begged them to order it for me. I got hundreds of hours of entertainment out of the software so I guess the $70 was worth it.

Outnumbered

This is one of the games I created with the GCS (game creation system). The weapons, enemies, and textures are the same ones that were bundled with the GCS for the most part. I added some textures and modified some of the enemy artwork. The game only has one enemy type. A constraint of the engine was that each level could only have one type of enemy.

I don't even remember what the plot for the game was supposed to be. It was something along the lines of "Earth's population has been infected by something so now people are evil zombies that want to kill you." An evil corporation was involved. Evil corporations always make a plot more interesting.

The actual gameplay is completely incoherent. You just kill your way from one random level to the next (the levels are pretty small). This version doesn't even have an ending. You're just sent back to the first level after you beat level 4.

Also, the game has permadeath. That is just how the engine worked. I'm not sure if there was a way to change that. When you die the program closes and you are back a the command prompt.

I made some blatant spelling errors.

I'm not sure what a generator lab is.

And I painted the windows on this building. I'm sad to say I never did learn how to create artwork.

Praise for Outnumbered

"I remember seeing Outnumbered and thinking it was crap. I see it now, and I see that it was crap" - Close Friend

How to Play

The version available for download here, is one that I managed to recover from an old hard drive, many years ago. It runs perfectly in DOSBox. I went ahead and bundled the Windows version of DOSBox with it. So just run "Play Outnumbered.bat". On other platforms besides windows you can manually launch the game in DOSBox.