"Dizzy and a half"
by Ordvana
Made with DizzyAGE v2.4

About:
A rather tricky (and somewhat pretentious - in trying to deal with player's choices) short Dizzy game with a few novelty approaches intended to give a certain twist to the way Dizzy games often happen to be played (especially the notorious if-stuck-try-everything-on-everything-until-something-works way). And with some Dantean namedropping thrown in. The said novelties the game introduces are:
1. Any item can be used at any point in the game, resulting in progress of some sort. Or death. The overall result depends on *when* certain items are used, in what order, and what the status of other items/characters is (e.g. whether you have a certain item on you, or used it, or did something else). The game has multiple endings because of that - most are short, but there are three distinct ending screens for notable outcomes.
2. In addition to using physical items from his inventory, Dizzy is given the ability to carry out itemless actions: your inventory would always include such non-droppable items as 'Punch', 'Laugh', 'Growl', 'Wink', etc. (However, as much as these could make up for a whole game, I only used the latter in mine.)
3. Did I mention it was rather tricky?



Story:
Dizzy has become somewhat disenchanted with his kidnapping-prone spouse Daisy and increasingly keen on spending more time with admiring Dora. However, he isn't quite willing to lay waste to the times he and Daisy went through together, either.



Gameplay:
Keys are Z/LEFT, X/RIGHT for movement, SPACE/UP for jump,
ENTER for action and ESCAPE/Q for menu.
If present, a gamepad or a joystick can also be used.
You can mute the sound with F9,
toggle windowed/full screen mode with F10,
and show the game FPS with F11.
F1 will display the About box (windowed only).
Use PrintScreen or ctrl+PrintScreen to save a screenshot.






Troubleshooting:
By default, the game runs in 640x480 windowed mode (scale x2).
It should have sound enabled, keyboard and joystick support.
The game uses dizzy.ini for keeping its settings.
You can adjust them from the provided setup or manually.
If you experience troubles running the game, try checking the log messages (enable them from setup), visit the official web site for details, or contact the author.




Spoiler:
The items are placed below all the nasties for a purpose.