The Adventures of Square



The Adventures of Square is a stand-alone game for the GZDoom source port. Provided free of charge, it was developed by BigBrik Games, which is a team of longtime Doom community members.

The game has two episodes. The first was released in 2014 and won a Cacoward that year. The second was released in 2018 and also won a Cacoward.

The protagonist, Square, must save the kidnapped scientist Dr. Octagon from the Circle of Evil cult. In addition to battling the cult members (circles) and their army of security droids, Square must protect the civilians (other polygons) he encounters. Settings are rendered in a bright, colorful style reminiscent of cel animation, with many hand-drawn graphics and textures. Voice acting and a complete soundtrack are also included.

Public beta releases began in August 2014, with version 1.0 appearing in November 2014. As of June 2019, the current version is 2.1, available as both a stand-alone Windows executable, called, or an IWAD to be used with GZDoom. The stand-alone version is based on GZDoom version 4.1.3, comes with a separate icon, and is modified to only run The Adventures of Square. According to its press kit, the team will incrementally add levels, resources, and gameplay features to future releases, culminating somewhere in the future with a complete edition of three solo episodes, additional deathmatch maps, and even worse puns. A Mac OS package is available, and Linux support is also planned.

The game features over 100 voice clips for the protagonist, that play at scripted moments, during cutscenes, and randomly throughout the game. Many are shape-based puns, for example:
 * "Nobody puts square in the corner!"
 * "Get out of my face!"
 * "Get off my plane!"

Levels
Episode 1: Cornered by Circles (Square-ware)


 * Training Course (After 1.1, this level is accessible only with "map training") by James Paddock (Jimmy)
 * by Matt Tropiano (MTrop)
 * by James Paddock (Jimmy)
 * by Richard Frei (Tarnsman)
 * by Walker Wright (Pavera)
 * (Exit to secret level) by Walker Wright (Pavera) and Xaser Acheron
 * by Gus Knezevich (Alfonzo) and Xaser Acheron
 * by James Paddock (Jimmy) and Xaser Acheron
 * by James Paddock (Jimmy) and Xaser Acheron
 * (Boss level) by Richard Frei (Tarnsman) and Conor Maddin (ClonedPickle)
 * (Secret level) by James Paddock (Jimmy)

Episode 2: Galactic Lunacy (Secant Edition)


 * by Xaser Acheron and Matt Tropiano (MTrop)
 * by Gus Knezevich (Alfonzo), Richard Frei (Tarnsman) and Matt Tropiano (MTrop)
 * by Matt Tropiano (MTrop) and Richard Frei (Tarnsman)
 * (Exit to secret level) by Richard Frei (Tarnsman)
 * by Xaser Acheron and Matt Tropiano (MTrop)
 * by James Paddock (Jimmy) and Matt Tropiano (MTrop)
 * (Exit to secret level) by Matt Tropiano (MTrop)
 * by Richard Frei (Tarnsman)
 * by Richard Frei (Tarnsman) and Xaser Acheron
 * (Boss level) by James Paddock (Jimmy) and Xaser Acheron
 * (Secret level) by Xaser Acheron and Matt Tropiano (MTrop)
 * (Secret level) by Matt Tropiano (MTrop)

Square-off play (deathmatch)



Soundtrack
Episode 1


 * E1A1: "i am a vacuum cleaner" by Xaser Acheron
 * E1A2: "Crapchute" by James Paddock
 * E1A3: "Canoe Not?" by James Paddock
 * E1A4: "Hornswoggle" by Gus Knezevich
 * E1A5: "Regormortiz" by James Paddock
 * E1A6: "Blue Flunky" by Gus Knezevich
 * E1A7: "Strombology" by Xaser Acheron
 * E1A8: "Factotum" by Xaser Acheron
 * E1A9: "Launch Time" by James Paddock
 * E1A10: "HELLO SUBMARINE" by James Paddock
 * Boss: "store it in the phryg" by Jazz Mickle and James Paddock
 * Ending cinematic: "Exosphere" by Gus Knezevich and James Paddock

Episode 2


 * E2A1: "Polygoon Platoon Upon the Moon" by Xaser Acheron and James Paddock
 * E2A2: "Jet Your Own Pack" by James Paddock
 * E2A3: "Space Hopper" by James Paddock and Xaser Acheron
 * E2A4: "Ice Cream Time Machine" by Xaser Acheron
 * E2A5: "Rhyme of the Pixie Barbarians" by Gus Knezevich
 * E2A6: "Bobby Prince, Pay Your Fares!" by James Paddock and Xaser Acheron
 * E2A7: "Incubutter" by James Paddock and Xaser Acheron
 * E2A8: "Cowculus" by James Paddock and Xaser Acheron
 * E2A9: "Lunartech Fridge" by James Paddock
 * Lava Ascent: "Lunartech Lava" by James Paddock and Xaser Acheron
 * E2A10: "Trianger" by James Paddock
 * E2A11: "Countricide" by James Paddock and Xaser Acheron
 * Gunfight: "Banjo Inferno (Xaser's 'The Final Texas' Mix)" by James Paddock and Xaser Acheron
 * E2A12: "Pyramidine" by James Paddock
 * Boss: "Lollapalooza" by Gus Knezevich and James Paddock
 * Ending cinematic: "Turquoise Octagon Moon" by James Paddock

Square-off


 * DM01: "Coconut Crush" by Paul Corfiatis
 * DM02: "Crapchute" by James Paddock
 * DM03: "dunk monk" by Jazz Mickle
 * DM04: "Hornswoggle" by Gus Knezevich
 * DM05: "Cowculus" by James Paddock and Xaser Acheron
 * DM06: "Jet Your Own Pack" by James Paddock

Miscellaneous


 * Title music: "Cubular!" by James Paddock and Xaser Acheron
 * Intermission music: "Oblongitude" by James Paddock

Trivia

 * The included executable in the standalone version of The Adventures of Square,, was previously based on GZDoom 3.3.1 with version 2.0 and GZDoom 2.4.0 with version 1.4, respectively. Prior to that, version 1.3 supplied separate builds based on ZDoom 2.8.1 and GZDoom 2.1.1.