CyberMycha 2001 April/CMycha200104.iso/OdjazdowyPakiet/Springy/README.TX_/README

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|        SPRINGY MADNESS, ver. 1.10        |
|    COPYRIGHT by Creative Adept, 2000     |
|           ALL RIGHTS RESERVED            |
|          **SHAREWARE VERSION**           |
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CONTENTS

I.    Game Description
II.   Shareware
III.  Requirements
IV.   Controls
V.    The Meanies
VI.   Treasures
VII.  Map Features
VIII. Reporting Problems



I.    Game Description

  SPRINGY MADNESS is an interactive 3D puzzle game.  A level starts
out covered with a texture; and the player controls a spring, which
looks much like a Slinky.  When the player's spring touches a
square it changes texture according to a set of texture progression
rules that are shown for each level.  The goal is to get from the
starting point to an end square while changing a given percentage
of the squares to the goal texture.
  Points are awarded for finishing a level, for every percentage
point achieved above the target percentage, and for beating a par
time for the level.  A wide array of meanies crawl through the
levels, trying to prevent you from finishing.


II.   Shareware

   This software program is distributed as shareware.  The essence of
shareware is to provide you with software that you get to "try before
you buy", while rewarding the efforts of the developers.  When you
think about it, the opportunity to try before you buy is the ultimate
guarantee of a product's quality and usefulness to you.  In fact,
shareware can be just as professionally developed as software that
comes in a fancy box (with a lot of hype and yet no way to determine
issues such as the "look and feel", etc.), but the price of shareware
can be set lower because it does not have to cover expensive marketing
costs.  Still, software businesses that market their products as
shareware need to get paid for their efforts just as any other business.
When you support the shareware concept, it ensures that the concept will
continue to work and you will continue to get to "try before you buy".
Thank you for understanding and honoring the "shareware" concept.

   SPRINGY MADNESS is a shareware product.  You are free to try it
out, but if you like it we urge you to register the product using
the information in the REGISTER.TXT file.  The shareware version has
fourteen levels; the registered version has fifty levels of ever
increasing and maddening difficulty.
   When you register the game, you will receive a registration code
to unlock the extra levels.  You enter this registration code using
the REGISTER selection in the OPTIONS menu that you can get to from
the main title screen.



III.  System Requirements

   SPRINGY MADNESS will run on Windows 95/98 using DirectX.  The
minimum and optimal requirements are listed below:

             MINIMUM        OPTIMAL
    CPU        Pentium 200    PII 233 or greater
    RAM        32 Megs        32 Megs
    VIDEO      2 Meg SVGA     4 Meg SVGA
    OS         Win95/98       Win95/98
    HARD DISK  25 Megs        25 Megs
    OTHER      DirectX        DirectX



IV.   Controls

   You may change the controls to suit your own needs.  The default
controls use the arrow keys and are listed below.

  RIGHT = right arrow
  LEFT  = left arrow
  UP    = up arrow
  DOWN  = down arrow
  PAUSE = space bar

   You can use the OPTIONS menu to enable use of a joystick or to
change the keys.



V.    The Meanies

   There are a variety of meanies that try to prevent you from
achieving your goal.  You can see the different meanie types during
the short demo that runs before the start of a game.  A description
of each type and the varieties of each type are described below.

  A. Bouncers

     Bouncers are rubbery cylinders that bounce up and down.  Touching
  one will destroy your spring.  With careful timing you can pass
  underneath a bouncer when it is in mid flight.  There are three types
  of bouncers, each a different color.

  YELLOW  = These bouncers just hop up and down on a single square.
           They never move off the square they start on.
  COPPER  = This type of bouncer goes back and forth in a horizontal
           or vertical path.  You can easily tell which direction
           these bouncers go by watching them.
  BLUE    = These bouncers travel in a straight line until they
           encounter an obstruction that prevents them from
           continuing in a straight line; they will turn always
           turn either right or left.  You can tell whether a blue
           bouncer will turn right or always turn left by watching it.

  B. Grid Bugs

     Grid bugs are little critters that slide around the map, trying
  to run into the player.  Any square they move into must be the
  same height as the one they are sitting in.  There are three types
  of grid bugs.

  PURPLE = These grid bugs move either horizontally or vertically.
          When they encounter an obstruction, they turn 180 degrees
          and go the opposite direction.
  RED    = These grid bugs always turn right or left when they
          encounter a square they cannot move into.  You must watch
          them to tell if they always turn right or left.
  GREEN  = These grid bugs turn a random direction when they hit
          an obstacle.

  C. Hoppers

     Hoppers are very similar to grid bugs, except instead of sliding
  from square to square they hop.  They can move onto squares that
  are not the same height.  There are also three types of hoppers,
  just as there are three types of grid bugs.  The hopper types and
  the equivalent grid bug colors are listed below.

  RED WITH YELLOW SPOTS = Same as purple grid bugs.
  ORANGE WITH RED SPOTS = Same as red grid bugs.
  GREEN                 = Same as green grid bugs.

  D. Fallers

     Fallers are spinning cubes that fall on to a square.  After a
  short time they reappear and fall again.  There are two types.

  YELLOW = These fallers simply fall onto a square.
  BROWN  = These fallers momentarily change the texture of the square
          they land on.  While it is changed, you may quickly move
          onto it and change it to another texture.

  D. Sliding Blocks

     Sliding blocks merely sit at rest.  You may push them around the
  map to expose the squares underneath them.  There are two types.

  GREEN  = When pushed these will continue to slide until they hit
          some sort of obstruction.
  BROWN  = These sliding blocks only move one square at a time.

  E. Mines

     Mines are activated when you move onto a square adjacent
  to them.  They then begin ticking.  There is one type.

  GRAY  = These kill you if you are too close to them when
         they explode.

  F. Alien Springs

     These are other springs on the map.  They mirror your movements
  and change square textures, just like you do.  You must be careful
  to make sure that not only you but also the enemy spring do not
  leave unchanged squares.  There are four types.

  BLUE   = This type exactly mirrors all your movements.
  GREEN  = This type mirrors you verticial movements, but inverts
          your horizontal movements.  So when you move right, the
          green enemy spring will move left.
  RED    = This type mirrors your horizontal movements, but inverts
          your vertical movements.
  PINK   = This type inverts both vertical and horizontal movements.

  G. Followers

     Followers, when activated, will follow you for a while.  They
  are activated when you move adjacent to it.  You must move quickly
  and without hesitation to prevent yourself from being run over.

  H. Speed Bugs

     Speed bugs are similar to grid bugs, except when the turn to face
  another direction they leap into the air, giving you a chance to
  move under them.  There are three types:

  PURPLE     = This type move back and forth.
  GREEN      = This type always turns right or always turns left
              when they hit an obstruction
  LIGHT BLUE = These speed bugs are the most dangerous type.  They
              turn a random direction.

  I. Crag Hoppers

     Crag hoppers are much like hoppers except that they leap into the
  air when turning, giving you an opening to move under them.  There
  are three different types:

  GREEN  = These crag hoppers just move back and forth, always
          turning 180 degrees.
  RED    = This type always turns right or always turns left.  Watch
          them to find out which direction they turn.
  GREY   = This type turns in a random direction.

  J. Groos

     Groos only move one square before making a decision to turn.  There
  are two types:

  ORANGE  = This type just moves back and forth, vertically or
           horizontally.
  PURPLE  = This type always turns right or always turns left, moving
           in clockwise or counter-clockwise circles.

  K. Kill Sliders

     These green blocks have pointy, pyramidal tops; and they can be
  pushed into other meanies to destroy the them.  Time your push
  carefully to hit an offending meanie.



VI.   Treasures

   There are several different kinds of goodies that you can grab for
extra points, extra lives, and such.  Each one of the treasures is
shown and labeled during the demo that runs before a game starts.  Each
of the types is described below.

  A.  Points.

     These are spinning gold disks stacked on top of each other.  You
  get five points for each disk, so a stack of three is worth fifteen
  points.

  B.  Extra Try

     These are rotating silver cylinders.  Grabbing one of these gives
  you an extra try.

  C.  Extra energy.

     These silver and black striped disks with a holes in the center
  will give you one hundred extra units of energy.



VII.  Map Features

   There are many map features that need special explanation.  You
can watch the demo that runs before a game starts to see the various
map features.  Each one is labeled.

  A.  Teleporters

     These are rotating cubes with bubbles coming out of the center.
  When you move onto a teleporter, with a whoosh of sound, you will
  instantly be transported to another location.

  B.  Killer Pyramids

     These are small orange and yellow pyramids, and hitting one of
  these will instantly destroy your spring.

  C.  End Square

     The end square is the square you must move onto to finish the
  level.  It is a mottled red color.

  D.  Switches

     Switches are a mottled blue color.  Moving onto one of these
  squares will depress the switch and activate some other feature
  of the map, such as an elevator.

  E.  Elevators

     Elevators are gray in color.  There are many different types.
  Most are activated by the player moving onto them.  Some require
  a switch to be hit.
     Some elevators will delay for a short time before continuing.
  In these cases a timer will be displayed in the upper left part
  of the screen.  The timer will count down; at zero the elevator
  will continue on its way, and if you are not on it when it goes
  up you may be left trapped.

  F.  Water

     Water comes in various colors.  Falling into it is fatal.

  G.  Null Squares

     These are gray colored squares.  The texture on these squares
  never changes, so you can move onto them as many times as you like.



VIII. Reporting Problems

   If you should encounter a problem with the game, please send
a description of the error and the situation that it occured to
our e-mail address at [e-mail].  It would be very
helpful if you could run the program from the DOS command-line
with the following command, "smadness -log".  This will produce
a file named "boot.log", and if you will send this file to us it
will help us find the problem.


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