BRIXOR v2 helpeng.txt ------------------------------------- This game is based on the classic arcadegame Arkanoid, which was released in the 1980s. It was very popular game at that time. The objective of the game is to collect scores by breaking bricks using a paddle and ball. Games which uses the same idea, is also called 'breakout - clones'. Brixor is one variation from this genre. Each level in the Brixor is maded using metal-, wood-, plastic-, stone- or glassbricks. You have to destroy all the bricks from each level with (mostly) the ball. The ball must be kept in the area by controlling it with a paddle. When you hit a ball with the paddle, it bounces back to the reversed direction where it comes from. If it miss the paddle, it's destroyed by crashing onto ground. The paddle is operated by the mouse. At the beginning of each level, the ball is launched by pressing the left mousebutton. At the end of each completed level, you enter to the store. In the store you can buy (or sell) with the earned scores <=> credits, guns, energybatteries, balls and some other devices to the paddle. All the prices are displayed at the right panel. To buy something, select the item you want from the list and click the 'buy' button. You can sell any previously purchased item in a similar way, by clicking the 'sell'-button. You can sell the 'materialbowls' (descripted later) at ten at the time by clicking 'sell' with the right mousebutton. There is also the option to save the game (registered version only). Any previously saved game is replaced. After a brick is destroyed, it transforms to a 'material bowl'. These bowls move around the screen until destroyed either by crashing onto ground or shooted by you. This gives exellent opportunity to earn more credits. You can shoot the bowls by arming the paddle with the gun. You can sell all the bowls you hit later in the store like a raw materials when you consider the rates are high enough. Current rates are always displayed as 'live' in yellow bars on right side of the screen while playing. In the store, they are displayed in right panel. You should avoid having the bowls smashing to the paddle, as they deplete energy quickly. There are two types of the guns in the game. With the guns loaded with the normal ammos you can shoot only the bowls. Guns with the special ammos can destroy the bricks and the bowls. No credits earned by shooted bricks, only from the bowls. When you buy a gun, remember to buy ammos to it! Max. load of the both types of ammos is 600 at the time. Most powerful equipment is green superball. It can destroy any kind of the bricks from its way. You can use it in same way like all other weapons or equipments in the game; Switch it to primary device by pressing or , until it is displayed in the small image on the lower right corner of the screen. It may need pressing several times, if you have several devices. After set, 'activate' it at the right moment by pressing . A ball must be now moving. One superball is used in every activation. After returning and hitting to the paddle, a ball get caught on it. It can now be launched again as a normal ball. With the magnetic fields, the paddle is capable to fly freely in the screen. Magnetic fields are numbered from one to five, where five represents highest altitude. However, the paddle cannot fly higher than the bottom brick is on the level. Magnetic fields are capable to operate forever, using only very small amount of energy. Any activity requires energy. Therefore it is important to make sure the paddle has enough energy to operate. Soon or later you have to buy more energybattery units to continue playing. A vertical bar marked with letter 'E' on the lower right corner of the screen displays current status of the battery in use. You should replace the current battery with new one, before it is empty; Select energybatteries to as a primary device, and press . If not, your credits are charged for 1500 scores. Game is over, if a paddle ran totally out of the energy and there aren't any battery units in reserve. The guns are neither capable to operate forever. While playing, the status of the selected gun is displayed in the horizontal bar below the small image on lower right corner of the screen. This image displays currently selected primary device or gun. A green number on top left corner of the image displays amount of devices you have. The two horizontal bars above the image displays amount of the ammos you have. You can stop playing the game anytime by pressing . Otherwise the game is over if you ran out of energy or balls. If your final scores (credits) are better than any result in the topten-list, you can add your name to the list. Summary of the keys in the game; or - Browse and select the primary device or gun. - activate or use the selected primary weapon or device.

- pause the game, - screenshot, - Stop the current game if in progress, return to previous screen or exit the game if pressed in the main menu. From the mainmenu you can enter to the settings - screen. The options with green button are enabled, red disabled. By disabling the 'strategy - mode', which is enabled by default, you can play the game as a variation of the classic breakout - clone. In this version, there are no store between the levels or any other features. Only a ball, paddle and bricks. This kind of game cannot be saved. The option 'play levels at random order' is also enabled by default. Disable it to play levels in the order from 1 to 200. In this case the game ends at least after last (#200) level is played. In the settings screen you can also load saved game and change some other options, like the sound settings or disable the startup intro. To enter to the registration screen, click to "Enter registration codes". The shareware version of the Brixor is limited to five playing levels and saving games is not possible. To get the full version you'll have to register: send me a fee of EUR 10.00 (FIM 60.00) (or the equivalent in any commonly changeable currency, for example $ 10.00) in bank notes, bills if you prefer that word. No coins, no cheques / checks. Paper money. I'll immediately send you a registration code (in fact, five separate numeric codes) to your email address (or by letter to your mailing address). Please, see order.txt for details. (While writing this, the flyby - web registration is on the way!) The registration codes are entered in five fields (code #1 in field #1, a.s.o) you get by clicking the "Enter registration codes here!" -button in settings screen. Move from field to field by clicking the mouse, Tab or Enter doesn't work. If you mistake, keep writing and click that field again. When all codes entered, click the word Register! in the screen. Store the codes somewhere outside your PC, if it crashes and you, after fixing the problem or in worst case buying a new PC, want to reinstall the game, you'll have to re-enter them, And if they crashed with the PC, there is no way to get them back. If you have any question, please send me an email at aquarius@mbnet.fi vmosterman@hotmail.com website: http://koti.mbnet.fi/aquarius/ ------------------------------------- Other games; Outer Lines, an puzzle type logic game. Earn scores by removing objects by surrounding them with randomly appearing borderpieces, using as many pieces as possible. When every object on a level is removed you proceed to the next one, where the number of objects you have to remove is increased by one. Five different themes; Marble, Pool, Space, Mouseball and Trafficjam.