Quite simply, Proximity is a game for two people with two tanks which storm around a randomly generated battle field, trying to kill each other.
Though written originally many years ago on an LC using 16 colours, I have revamped it for a release and now a PowerMac and 256 colours are required - the game will run in any screen resolution but 640*480 is recommended otherwise it all looks a bit tiny!
Player 1 uses keys: 4,5,6,8 on the numeric keypad for directions (combined for diagonals) and shift fires.
Player 2 uses the mouse - the tank (static on screen within it's scrolling pane) moves towards the cursor position and the mouse button fires.
Hit 'a' during a game to abort.
All the onscreen buttons also work by pressing the relevant letters.
Be sure to check out the help screen for a couple of extra things to watch out for!
Radar:
Between the two scrolling panes for each player there is a 'radar' box which shows up both players - red being player 1 and green being player 2.
Power-ups:
Shoot through walls - the buildings are no longer an obstacle to your tank's gun!
Radar Immunity - disappear from the radar screen altogether- stealth!
Rubber Bullets - bouncing bullets (cool), very effective when fired diagonally!
Shield - Immunity to one shot from your opponent, actually not much use :-)
Money Money Money:
If you think this game is fairly cool, and you just can't help hitting 's' again every time you die, just to get your brother who was probably cheating anyway, then:
• send £5 for a poor student who can't afford the rent (me)
• write me a nice email full of praise and funny jokes with which to amuse my friends
• go for a guided tour of Micro$oft's HQ with a VERY strong magnet in your bag
All of the above will convince me to write more really cool software (or even add sound, multiple bullets, score tally etc to this game - but it would really need a total rewrite for that...)!
Sam Carr,
154 Station Road,
Harpenden,
Herts.
AL5 4RH
ENGLAND
samuel.carr@balliol.ox.ac.uk
Credits:
Sam 'who wants sound in a game anyway' Carr - inefficient and crude coding effort; crappy icon; hilarious readme :-)
Stefan 'one hundred and one hair dyes' Lewandowski - most of the excellent original graphics
Matt 'it was only a small pork pie' Santer - play testing and helpful comments all of which were ignored
Dan 'a Palm Pilot's better than a dog anyday' Corder - more testing and stuff
Hasan - supplier of dodgy kebabs necessary to keep any coder going or just poison them painlessly
Legal Rubbish:
Obviously I wrote this software with the intention that it would do no-ones computer any harm whatsoever, but merely amuse and amaze with its fantasticness. However, in a time long ago, from a dark continent, came 'LAWYERS'! Their sole intent to terrorise innocent people with silly words like "subpoeinaed" and generally make a mockery of common sense.
It is for this reason and of course the existence of some very stupid people that I find myself having to write:
This software comes with absolutely no warranty expressed or implied as for it being fit for any purpose, and whomsoever uses it does so by their own volition and deserves what they get! Basically - if your dog leaves you as a result of running Proximity then it's not my fault! Blah-di-blah-di-blah.
