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- KRYPTON EGG
-
-
-
- 1. INTRODUCTION.
-
- "Krypton Egg" is the ultimate break-out. It runs on P.C.
- under DOS. Some versions are Windows compatible. It is an easy
- and fun game to play. To play, hit on the command line: ke
- <return>.
-
- 2. AIM OF THE GAME.
-
- You must demolish a bricks wall by hitting them with a
- ball. You must send back the ball with a racket that you move
- with the mouse. Some bricks when they are hit by the ball,
- release a spell (bonus or malus). These spells, when they are
- caught with the racket, influence some of the game parameters
- like the size, the speed, the consistency and the number of
- balls; the size, the possibilities of the racket,...etc.
-
- 3. DESCRIPTION.
-
- "Krypton Egg" includes 60 levels with increasing
- difficulty. Every five levels, you fight a horde of monsters,
- you must kill all of them to go to the next level. Every ten
- levels, you fight a big monster. When you kill it, you receive
- an access code. It allows you to restart from this point. The
- access code is given after you died on the bottom of the menu
- screen. This code must be noted for a further use. To restart
- your game, you must press the space bar key on the menu screen
- and enter your access code with the letters and the numeric pad.
-
- 3.1 The spells. "Krypton Egg" includes 28 spells . A
- same spell can have different powers, action times. And the best
- of... they are all compatible : you can have two different
- spells at the same time ...and cumulative : if you take two
- growers, you will be greater than if took one.
-
- The good spells. 1) Pumper: It pumps all your
- balls. (maximum 7 times) 2) Extender: It extends your
- racket. (maximum 13 times) 3) C.A.G.: Computer
- Aided Game: The computer plays
-
- for you for a while. 4) Reactor: You can fly and go
- everywhere on the
-
- screen. 5) Multiplier: All your next points will be
- multiplied
-
- by two. 6) Bier: It inverts the left & the
- right
-
- direction. 7) Glue: It pastes the balls on your
- racket. You
-
- can send them back when you want with
-
- the left mouse button. 8) Dynamite: It kills all
- monsters present on the screen. 9) Shield: Each time you
- catch it, you receive
-
- additional shields (from 1 to 3).
-
- The red star indicates that you have one
-
- shield, the blue star more than one. 10) Slow Ball: It
- slows down the balls speed. 11) Spectre: It gives you
- an help racket to send back
-
- the ball. 12) Power Ball: It transforms all balls in
- lead.
-
- You can now break everything. 13) Rapid Shoot: It
- enables you to send light shoot
-
- one by one to kill monsters or break bricks. 14) Rapid
- Multi Shoot: It enables you to send light shoot
-
- more than one at a time. 15) Double Shoot: It enables you
- to send shoot one by one. 16) Double Multi Shoot: It enables
- you to send shoot more
-
- than one at a time. 17) Bonus Racket: It gives you some
- extra lifes. 18) Bonus Ball: It gives you an extra ball,
-
- enabling you to play with more than one ball. 19) Canon
- Shoot: It enables you to send heavy shoot one
-
- by one. 20) Canon Multi Shoot: It enables you to send
- heavy shoot
-
- more than one at a time. The bad spells. 21)
- Speed Ball: Each time you catch it, your balls
-
- will go faster. 22) Cage: It immobilizes you for
- a while. 23) Interrogation point: A randomized spell
- which affects your
-
- ball or your racket. 24) Bulb: The general
- brightness will diminish,
-
- disturbing your sight. 25) Transpa Ball: The balls become
- green smoke and break
-
- nothing more for a while. 26) Deflater: It deflates
- all balls, shrinking them. 27) Shrinker: It shrinks the
- size of your racket. You can
-
- have a smaller racket than the starting one. 28) Knife:
- It takes off a shield one by one, then one life. ...
-
- 3. 2 The bricks. The game includes 256 different
- bricks, no way to describe each of them. So here are the 6 main
- categories of bricks.
-
- 1) The normal bricks: You must hit them from one to three
- times to break them. 2) The spell bricks: Those bricks
- content a spell. You can easily recognize them to the little
- blue star that they bear in their bottom right corner. You must
- sometimes hit them more than once to release the spell. 3)
- The teleporter bricks: Always present by two: they teleport
- the ball from each to other. 4) The death bricks:
- Each time you hit one of them, your racket will shrink. 5)
- The temporary bricks: Never broken, they only disappear
- for a while. Some of them must be hit till 7
- times to disappear. 6) The indestructible bricks: Never
- broken and never disappearing. They can only be destroyed by a
- powerful weapon or a lead ball.
-
- 3. 3 The little monsters. Most of the monsters are not
- really dangerous. They take off one shield or deviate the ball
- but they can not kill you. Except the Picus Vulgarus, the most
- dangerous one. Its contact will cause an instant kill if you
- have no shield. You can recognize it by its red shimmering halo.
-
- 4. PRAGMATICAL EXPLANATIONS.
-
- 4. 1 Controls. You can play the game whether with a
- mouse, a joystick or the keyboard. You control the racket
- with the mouse. With the left mouse button (LMB) you throw the
- ball, either to start the game or when it is glued on the
- racket. You can shoot, when you got the good spell, with the
- right mouse button (RMB). A very important feature of the game
- is that you can give some effects in the ball by moving the
- racket when hitting the ball. It is not an easy technique but it
- is indispensable to master it to finish the game.
-
- 4. 2 Useful keys. On the Menu: SPACE to enter
- your access code to continue a previous game
-
- After having entered your code press ENTER to validate it.
- ESCAPE to quit the game. P to play S to go to the high-scores
- screen. O to go to the order screen. I to go to the informations
- screen. LMB + the mouse pointer in the upper left corner also
- quit the game. LMB + CTRL to decrease the mouse sensibility.
- RMB + CTRL to increase the mouse sensibility.
-
- In the Game: CONTROL KEY or LMB to release the ball when
- it is pasted on the racket.
-
- ALTERNATE KEY or RMB to send a shoot when you have caught the
- spell that enables it.
-
- ESCAPE to kill the racket. P to set or remove the pause.
-
- For both: S to switch the sound on or off.
-
- 4. 3 Horde attack. This kind of fight appears after
- level 5, 15, 25, 35, 45 and 55. You got a weapon and you send
- your shoots with the RMB. At the beginning, you own one shield
- and you can have more if you shoot them up. Each monster knife
- touching you takes one shield away. You die when you are
- touched by a knife without any shield more. You can only go to
- the next level after all the horde is killed. Do not forget that
- the monsters must be touched several times to die. If you
- want to skip this phase of the game, you must enter the code
- 'DADA' in the bottom of the menu screen. To reactivate it,
- enter the code '0000'.
-
- 4. 3 Monster attack. This kind of fight appears after
- level 10, 20, 30, 40, 50 and 60. You got 2 weapons of
- different powers. You use the slow, single and powerful weapon
- with the LMB, and the rapid, double but light weapon with the
- RMB. The head of the monster is its weak point. To touch
- other parts of its body does not cause it any damage. At the
- bottom of the screen are shown on the left, the player's
- energy and on the right the monster's energy. Try to touch it
- the most at the beginning because it becomes more and more
- angry and dangerous. If you are awaiting the propitious time,
- you have no chance. Remember you have only one chance to beat
- it, the number of lifes you have makes no difference. If you
- want to skip this phase of the game, you must enter the code
- 'D0D0' in the bottom of the menu screen. To reactivate it,
- enter the code '0000'.
-
- 5. TECHNICAL CHARACTERISTICS.
-
- 5. 1 The Animation. The animation speed is 70 frames
- per second. It is one of the only game offering 70 different
- images per second. And that whether you are under DOS or
- Windows. That is not so much important for the technique itself
- but it provides to the player a greater playability. For
- instance, it offers a real fluidity of the objects in motion as
- a smoother and more manageable mouse.
-
- 5. 2 The Sound. The game includes digital musics and
- background noises (8 bits) on SoundBlaster or compatible cards.
- We are sorry but we actually don't manage the GUS Sound card.
- You can also have sound on the PC internal speaker if you run
- the game with the appropriate switch.
-
- 5. 3 The Switches of the game.
-
- On the command line, you can enter some switches.
-
- Write the switche(s) after the executable name.
-
- List of useful switches: -f to enable a french
- keyboard ("azerty").
-
- -k to enable the sound speaker.
-
- -s to remove the sound card test.
-
- -t to remove the timer manager.
-
- Example to run Krypton Egg with the sound
-
- of the PC Speaker enabled:
-
- > ke -k
-
- 6. MINIMUM EQUIPMENT.
-
- 1) An IBM or compatible PC with a 386 processor. 2)
- A VGA video card 8 bits with 256 kilobytes. 3) 1,6
- megabytes of free space on the hard disk. 4) 2 megabytes
- of memory.
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