G u i d e t o D u e n i x 1 . 2 --------------------------------------- Written and edited by Daniel Polansky 1) What's it all about 2) Using the game 3) Advanced options What's it about --------------- From 2 to 6 players drive their worms on the gameplan with the only goal: survive and kill the others. As they ride, they leave the killing line behind. As time passes, there is less and less space on the plan and less and less players alive. When there is only one player left, the round is fini- shed. Every player being alive at the moment some of the other players die gets the point. Because space would be cut into isolated areas very soon, the lines players are drawing aren't con- tinuous, but leave spaces. And to addition, speed of players isn't constant, but depends on altitude player is riding (brighter colour means higher alti- tude). Using the game -------------- When the game starts, you face main screen with six boxes for six players. Before you start to play, at least two players must be selected. You can se- lect player by pressing one of his driving keys which are written in the page. By pressing space you can start the game. When you press driving key more times, you select computer and one more time cyborg. Cyborg works this way: when you press left or right driving key, the worm turns as you press, but if you don't, computer drives the worm. By pressing 0 to 7 you can set lives to players. Try and see. When you press S, there shows a list of games to choose from. The games differ in gameplan, speed and other properties, which can be separatedly set in advanced options. Take a note that if you dont like picking nose in options, you don't have to, just select one of the readymade games after pressing S and see what it does. Options ------- There are 5 option pages: main, settings, gameplan, record 'n replay and user gameset. The things you set in settings and gameplan are known as configuration or game. In main page, you can save current configuration, load it etc. When the game is executed the configuration saved as default is taken. SETTINGS ~~~~~~~~ Here are lots of things to set: DIRECTIONS: this is in fact radius of rotation - the greater it is the slower is the turning. SPEED JUMP: this is steepness of the slopes on gameplan. 0 = no slopes at all, 95 = really steep slopes, the worm riding in high altitude is almost not moving SPACE LENGTH: this is the length of the spaces coming in regular intervals. Setting this to 0 will drive spaces off. LINE LENGTH: this is the length of the line player draws before space comes SPEEDING UP: worms will speed up during the round SPEEDING TIME: In case of speeding up, this is the time during which the final speed is reached. FINAL SPEED: this is the final speed that will be reached after speeding up. In case of not speeding up, this speed is lasting for the whole game. SPACE KILL: When the space kill is off and the worm is just drawing a space, he won't be killed by any worm's line. When it's on, worm is killed by worm's line anytime. Note that space kill doesn't affect killing at borders. BOUNCING: You can bounce from borders. TELEPORTING: You'll be teleported at borders. WATERING: Combined bouncing and teleporting. You bounce, when you drive at the border at low angle, teleport at high angle. WATER ANGLE: Boundary angle between bouncing and teleporting for watering. MUSIC, SOUND FX: needs no comment TURBO: Gives no limit to speed of the game. The speed is then limited by your computer's speed. COMPUTURBO: When all humans are dead and some computers or cyborgs still alive, game swithes itself to turbo. CENTRAL BOX: A barrier appears in the middle of the plan. It acts like borders. CEN.BOX SIZE: Size of the barrier. ALWAYS TURNING: There is no way not to turn. THIN LINE: Worms draw thin line instead of bold BODY CHANGE: After some period of playing players suddenly exchange their bodies. No one will stay in his body. A while after this players are protected against death at line (but no at border). BODY CHANGE LENGTH: Average time before next body changing. Actual times are genera- ted randomly round this number. TEAM GAME: Players play in teams. 4 or 6 teams must be selected, there are then 2 or 3 pair teams. The pairs are taken from selected players from up to down. Score in teams is shared. The one of the team that is higher placed in the main page, has a great advantage: he can cross his teammate's line without being killed. LONG GAME: When game is long, rounds go on until some player reaches (p-1) times 10 points. Otherwise the limit is (p-1) times 5 points. p = # players SURPRISING START: At the start of the gameround, players will see no flags and they worm they drive. WIND: Wind starts to blow turning you into its own direction. Going against wind is of course slower. WIND STRENGTH: Needs no comment. Note that wind was added for bored superdrivers, not for poor mortal people. PLAN SIZE: When 2 or 3, plan is bigger than screen and scrollings is used. COMPUDEATH: When last human (non computer) is killed, all computers are immediately killed (why would anyone want to wait until computers kill each other). ZOMBIES: After player is killed, he becomes a zombie: his line gets spacy and he will draw until all players are killed. When zombie is "killed:, it remains zombie, but its spaces in line get bigger. GAMEPLAN ~~~~~~~~ You can select one of the readymade plans in here by pressing D or 1-6. By pressing Y and then L you can load your own gameplan in Iff image format. This picture can have up to 32 colours, but only 16 will really be used. So ideal number of colours of your picture is 16. In configuration, there will be stored not your whole picture (it would be too large), but only path to the picture, so if you want to use your picture in configuration, don't delete the picture file! It's also wise to put the picture file into the folder where you store Duenix files so that you know to what thing the picture belongs. RECORD 'N REPLAY ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This option was designed to provide you a chance for recording beautiful game rounds and replay them for your friends to see. When you chose RECORD, your game rounds will be recorded in memory. When you then face PRESS SPACE writing, you can remember the recent round by pressing R or save the recent round into ram: by pressing S. Note that R means that no more rounds will be recorded in the game - that is the way to remember, while S allows you to recond every round. When you choose REPLAY, last round stored in me- mory will be replayed (this you should do when you remembered using R) while when you choose replay all saved, all rounds stored in ram: will be replayed. If you make an assign "DuenRecord:" to any folder, all records will be saved there instead in ram:. USER GAMESET ~~~~~~~~~~~~ This is a tool for creating your own gamesets (gameset is a bunch of 20 configurations from which you can pick one by pressing a single key). To create gameset you need up to 20 configurations sto- red in one folder and text file containing list of these stored in the same folder. If you have this, rest will be easily managed by user gameset page, just try it.