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- TRILON: A Game of Pitfalls
- By Todd M. Lewis
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- The game Trilon presents the player with groups of patterned blocks
- falling into a pit. Rows (either horizontal, vertical, or diagonal) of three
- or more identical blocks are eliminated from the pit. The object is to orient
- each falling group of three blocks so that when it lands in the pit it forms
- rows of identical blocks which are then eliminated, thus keeping the pit from
- filling. Once the pit is full, the game is over.
- Each falling group is a Trilon, a pylon made of three patterned blocks.
- You can move these trilons left and right, and you can rearrange their
- constituent blocks by making the bottom block flip up to the top of the other
- two blocks. When you have the trilon oriented and positioned the way you want
- it, you can make it instantly drop into the pit. Once it lands, all rows of
- three or more identically patterned blocks are removed, and your score is
- increased by one point for each block eliminated. Any blocks remaining above
- newly created holes fall into those holes.
- Game play is controlled from the keyboard using any of four different
- groups of keys. The key groups and their functions are outlined in the
- following table:
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- \ Function
- Group \ Left | Flip | Right | Drop
- --------+---------+-------+--------+---------------
- "A" | A | S | D | Space
- "J" | J | K | L | Space
- Cursor | Left | Up | Right | Down
- KeyPad | 1,4,7 | 2,5,8 | 3,6,9 | Other KeyPad Keys
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- One menu sets all game options. ABOUT gives a brief game description.
- NEW GAME has choices of four skill levels. PAUSE will temporarily halt the
- game in progress, as will selecting some other window. Select PAUSE again to
- resume the game. SOUND toggles the sound effects on and off. SHOW NEXT lets
- you select whether you want to see what the next piece will be. QUIT ends the
- program, but no one ever does that.
- Trilon will run from either the CLI or the WorkBench, and it requires no
- special setup or additional files for proper operation.
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