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- A FEW NOTES ON MURDER
-
- Murder.exe requires MicroSoft Windows 3.0 or better. The object of the
- game is to shoot each of your opponents before they catch up to you. "You"
- are the figure with the gun. Use the arrow keys to move around. To fire the
- gun, press the left mouse button.
-
- The cursor, which takes the shape of a gun, must be inside the game's window
- for the gun to fire. I realize it would have been better to assign a key to
- fire the gun, but I never got around to making the change. Maybe I'll do it
- later if there is any interest.
-
- Also, once the gun is fired, it will not fire again until the first bullet is
- off the screen. (They're kinda slow bullets.) This may not be very realistic,
- but it makes the game a lot more challenging.
-
- You have to pick which opponent you want to face. Just click on the "Target"
- pulldown menu and then click on the drawing of the opponent you want. Then
- click a point on the screen where you want the opponent to appear. (You are
- picking the horizontal starting position. The vertical position is chosen at
- random.)
-
- There IS more than one screen. You can run off the edge of the screen and a
- new scene will appear.
-
- There are a few bugs. The animated figures can go behind or in
- front of fixed objects like palm trees. This part works pretty well. I tried
- to make the fixed objects "solid", so that if an animated figure runs directly
- into one of them he has to stop and go around. This part didn't turn out all
- that great.
-
- FINAL NOTE: For any programmers out there... The source code, bitmaps, etc.
- are available in the WinSDK forum. Look for the file MURD_S.ZIP. It's all
- in the public domain, so do what you want with it.
-