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$fafDownloaded from Team17 web site by Bolty. $fff EVERYTHING YOU WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT WORMS, BUT WERE TOO AFRAID TO ASK BY ANDY "WORMS" DAVIDSON ------------------------------------------------------------------------ $ffa First of all, thanks to everyone who has bought the game - here's all the hidden stuff I put in Amiga WORMS, and a lot more besides ... $aff ONE MAN AND HIS SHEEP A FAMOUS LEGEND CUSTOMISING THAT WORM BUT MORE SO MAKING IT OFFICIAL LOTS OF WORMS IN A LIST EVEN MORE KEYS WHAT THE ....? IT'S GOOD TO ... - NEW FOUR BILLION? BUT WHICH ONES? LOOK AROUND THE LEVEL - NEW A LONG TIME AGO ... ABOUT THAT CONCRETE DONKEY DONKEY WATCH ABOUT BANANAFISH AN APOLOGY ... THE CHANNEL OF MAD PEOPLE - NEW PARLEZ-VOUS ... - NEW WORMS -> ? COLOURS, SO MANY COLOURS ... -NEW ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ONE MAN AND HIS SHEEP Need more sheep? Get depressed when you pick up every weapon crate, only to end up with 9 teleports and 7 cluster bombs? Type in TOTAL WORMAGE (with the space) on the title screen for "SHEEP MODE". If you're using a joypad press GREEN, UP, PAUSE, PAUSE, YELLOW (which spells GUPPY - a tribute to the late Bananafish) This gives you 3 sheep, 1 banana bomb and a minigun straight away (go into Weapon Options if you need an UNLIMITED SUPPLY of sheep) For all those who were offended at the thought of sheep being kept in small wooden crates, sheep mode lets you shoot ANY weapon crate to FREE THE SHEEP! Killing your opponent with a liberated sheep is a very satisfying way to win and well worth activating smug mode for. A FAMOUS LEGEND The "legendary prod move" is a not available in any shops, you can only buy doing this combination of moves (in the best Mortal Kombat tradition) Get next to your victim and press AWAY, AWAY, TOWARDS, TOWARDS (in other words, if your worm is facing right press left, left, right, right) CUSTOMISING THAT WORM BUT MORE SO The custom level option is EVEN MORE EXCITING than you thought - you can set the gravity, friction, sky and water colours for your levels ... Instead of saving your level as FISHCAKE.WRM, save it as FISHCAKE.????.WRM the 4 question marks being 4 numbers ... The first number is gravity and can be between 1 and 5 (1=very low, 3=normal 5=very high). Mars and alien levels have a gravity of 2. The second number is friction and can be between 1 and 5 (1=very low, 3=normal, 5=very high). Arctic and alien levels have a friction of 2. The third and forth numbers are the sky and water colours and can be between and 9 - fans of green water can now have a matching green sky. You can also make your own message appear, when your level is chosen, by giving your level file a comment. Do this by clicking on the level icon and choosing "Information" from the Workbench menus (the icon menu on 2.0+) If you want to share your level with the rest of the world, then upload it t ftp.team17.com in the directory /pub/worms/incoming MAKING IT OFFICIAL When playing with 4 people it is normal either for 3 people to gang up on 1 (fox and rabbit type thing) or for 2 to join forces to get rid of the other 2 who have resorted to the EVIL use of the blow torch (star wars type thing) You can now recreate the Darth Vader/Luke Skywalker thing (and annoy people by shout "you're not my father" alot) with the OFFICAL TWO AGAINST TWO MODE! At team select after you have clicked on 4 teams, click on 2 again - the stars will change to circles (a symbolic type thing). LOTS OF WORMS IN A LIST The WORMLIST lets you keep a record of loads of people's worms. You just have to type their name at Team Entry, click on List and all their worms will be listed. However, before this is possible you will have to get rid of all the default ownerless worms. These were put in for those people who panic when asked to name their worms and resort to the EVIL 1,2,3+4 team. To kill a load of innocent worms, go to records and choose View Wormlist. Highlight a worm that isn't one of yours or the computers and press the right mouse button. After you have assasinated all the unwanted worms, click on ok and go to Save Wormlist. EVEN MORE KEYS If you don't know people well enough to keep reaching across them, you have another set of keys to control your worm on the left of the keyboard ... z=left, c=right, x=down, d=up, ctrl=jump, tab=toggle names, '=centre on worm You can use two mouses as well by selecting two controllers in Options. WHAT THE ....? If you feel a word is missing from this sample then change it to something more appropriate for a highly dangerous explosive device landing next to a small pink invertebrate (?!) All the samples on disks 2+3 in the TWEnglish/TWFrench/TWGerman drawers are IFF - just replace them with your own but don't exceed the size of the original samples or WORMS will crash violently at Game Start. Also, don't change the names of the samples. Don't forget, if you make a good sample set then upload it to ftp.team17.com in the directory /pub/worms/incoming. IT'S GOOD TO ... If you have just played a level and want to play it again, enter 1471 as a level number and it shall be done (good if you forgot to write down the number of that ostrich shaped level). Also, if you enter a landscape type, such as FOREST, the landscape generator will only generate levels of this type. Enter ALL to get back to normal. FOUR BILLION? BUT WHICH ONES? If you find a particularly good level in Amiga WORMS make sure you tell everyone, especially if you find one of the weird levels (you'll know them when you see them!), or a level that looks like an animal! These are the best levels I've found so far ... * 1803921718 - weirdful scrapyard level (best level so far) * 3549908729 - jungle level with crashed helicopter on island * 252101829 - another one of the weird levels, a perfectly curved island * 345076839 - bridge over troubled island * 1706205299 - arctic caves * THORAHIRD - explore her hidden depths And from the animal collection (only some people can see them!) ... * 954338916 - sneezing alien elephant * 2810298544 - horse sticking head out of water * 3376459905 - a bit of a triceratops LOOK AROUND THE LEVEL There are some things in WORMS that not everyone knows about. For the benefit of these people, and a couple of magazines, here they are ... When using a CD32 joypad, to LOOK AROUND THE LEVEL hold the right flipper and move the joypad. When using a grenade, cluster bomb or banana bomb you can change the fuse by pressing 1-5 (on a joypad hold the right flipper and press red). You can change between low and high bounce by pressing + and - (on a joypad hold the right flipper and press blue). To get the quit options pause the game and press ESC (left flipper on a joypad). To get out of the quit options press ESC (or left flipper) again. You can quit to the title screen on the landscape generator by pressing ESC (left flipper on a joypad). To toggle the worm names between all names, just your names, and no names press DEL (hold right flipper and red on a joypad). To centre the screen on the current worm press HELP (hold right flipper and blue on a joypad). A LONG TIME AGO ... WORMS started life 4 years ago as a simple tank game called ARTILLERY. It's aim was to keep us conscious during A-Level Art. But tanks weren't interest enough, and they were soon replaced with soldiers in ARTILLERY 2. As A-Level Art got more boring, more stuff such as teams of soldiers and dynamite was added resulting in ***ARTILLERY. Having survived A-Level Art, it eventually became clear that soldiers weren't interesting enough either - a replacement had to be found for "the things that walk and jump". Worms were decided on, as back in August '93, none of them had ever been called Jim. A complete rewrite started under the name Total Wormage, or TW as everyone playtesting it had to call it. Alot of sleepless nights later, September '94, I took it to the ECTS and showed Martyn Brown at Team 17. After 5 minutes he said "Do you want it published?" Total Wormage became WORMS and came out in November '95. So the moral of this tale is if you want to get a game published, take A-Level Art. * ARTILLERY - 1991 * ARTILLERY 2 - 1991 * ***ARTILLERY - 1991-1993 * TOTAL WORMAGE - 1993-1994 * WORMS - 1994-1995 ABOUT THAT CONCRETE DONKEY The garden should be a happy place, but if there is a large concrete donkey standing in it, it puts a bit of a downer on things. As a child I was very disturbed by it - I was convinced that my parents had concreted over a real donkey and just left it there (what happened to Bananafish also got me suspicious). I can remember chipping away at its tail with a stone, to see if there was fur under there. Today, the donkey has taken on a religious significance resulting in the "Cult of the Concrete Donkey". Sacrifical gifts are regularly laid between its ears, the most recent being a small can of Heinz Baked Beans (unopened). This practice of concreting over donkeys may be more widespread as there have recently been sightings of other concrete donkeys - most disturbing of all was that one of them was a baby donkey. DONKEY WATCH "Donkey Watch" was started to see exactly how many donkeys have ended up as nothing more than garden "ornaments". If you see one, make sure you report it. ABOUT BANANAFISH Bananafish was a white and yellow goldfish, and was pretty clever as goldfish go - he could play dead, and roll over on command. Sadly, Bananafish came to a nasty end when the pond was filled with concrete. There have been various sightings of Bananafish over the years, but none of them have been confirmed AN APOLOGY ... I promised a load of people on IRC channel #Amiga their own worms in Amiga WORMS, and then proceeded to lose the piece of paper I wrote them down on! to all the people I discussed Concrete Donkeys with - StoneD, RMerlin, MrDaniel and everyone else - sorry =( THE CHANNEL OF MAD PEOPLE Get on the IRC and join channel #worms, just remember to bring your donkey PARLEZ-VOUS ... WORMS was compiled with Blitz2 by Acid Software - if you haven't got Blitz, then get it! WORMS -> ? I was adding stuff to Amiga Worms right up until its release, and I'm doing a patch disk at the moment to fix any bugs in it. This disk will also add all the things that I didn't have time for. If there's anything you want to say about WORMS, even if it's in the style of a questionaire, I'd like to know. COLOURS, SO MANY COLOURS ... I'm also doing WORMS AGA at the moment which will have LOADS of new stuff, as well as 200+ colours on screen. Get ready for HOMING PIGEON ... 1996 - the year of the updated worm! Keep on worming ... ANDY "WORMS" DAVIDSON MAD? POSSIBLY ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Back to the World Wide Worm ------------------------------------------------------------------------ © Team17 Software Ltd. 1995/6 End