Contents
1. Introduction
2. Installation
3. System Requirements
4. Game Information
- Senerio
- Controls
- Weapons
- Chemical Elements
- Chemical Compounds
- Enemies
Introduction
The aim of the game is the same as numerous other shoot-em-ups. Trying to survive as long as possible, beating off the relentless waves of aliens whilst accumulating as much points as possible. There are two various gameplay modes either youre the defender trying to protect your planet/s from the onslaught of the invaders, or youre the attacker trying to destroy the aliens base/s. All aliens must be destroyed before you can advance to the next level.Installation
System Requirements
- linux or windows- NVIDIA glsl capable graphics card, eg geforce fx, geforce 6xxx, geforce 7xxx
- 256 MB memory
- 100 MB free harddisk space
Game Information
Senerio
There are two types of gameplay senerio, either youre protecting your planets from the aliens
Or youre trying to destroy the aliens bases
Controls
The default controls are
| Mouse | Moves the players spaceship | |
| Mouse + right mouse buttom | Rotates the players spaceship either left or right depending on which way the mouse is shifted | |
| Left mouse button | Fire rocket thrust which moves the players spaceship upwards away from the aliens (only if youve got fuel) | |
| Middle mouse button | Select next weapon bank | |
| Mouse wheel | Select between weapons within a weapon bank | |
| TAB | Shoot | |
| S | Smartbomb | |
| 1-4 | Activate the chemical compound (the correct elements must first be collected) | |
| Escape | Bring up the menu, press escape again to return to the game |
Weapons (selected)
Weapons and powerups can be gained by collecting various chemical elements to form a chemical compound eg 2 hydrogens and 1 oxygen, combine to form water. Once you can make a previously unmade compound a number will appear at the top left of the screen, press this number and the new weapon/powerup is now available. Here are some of the avaiable weapons, Im planning to include more than 30 in total including a shotgun (gotta have that), ditto railgun/rocketlauncher, caneknife, agent orange
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Bullets, the first weapon you start off with, not very fast or powerful |
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Beam, Only has a limited range but will drain the health of anything that intersects its path |
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Flamethrower, powerful weapon but only has a limited range, it also drains your fuel tanks |
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Lazer, fast and semi powerful lazer beam |
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Missiles, self guided missiles will head to the nearest alien, they only have a limited range, but cause damage over an area when they explode thus can destroy multiple aliens at once |
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Penetrator, slow firing beam weapon that lasts for half a second, during that time all objects in its path lose health |
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Railgun, slow to reload but delivers a super high velocity projectile that will kill nearly any alien istantly, only effects aliens |
Chemical Elements (selected)
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Helium, a noble gas that increases the players health by 100 |
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Neon, a noble gas that increases the score multiplyer by 1 |
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Argon, a noble gas that increases the number of player smartbombs by 1 |
Chemical Compounds (selected)
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formaldehyde, makes the 3way beam weapon |
Enemies
A collection of various fruit and veg that ive commercially picked over the years, 22 in total I believe.
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Button squash, A fast moving vege that appears if youve been on a level to long, ala the UFO from defender/stargate |
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Tomato, A ponderous veg/fruit that will spray tomato sause out if you come to close |
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Orange, A fruit that will either attack you or your planets with spurts of orange juice |
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Strawberry, A fruit attacks in waves of clusters |
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Passionfruit, A fruit that will explode into hundreds of passion fruit pips if you become to close |
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Apple, A fruit that shoots apple seeds |
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Watermelon, A fruit that strips your planet of defends and once its removed them all will kamazize into the planet |
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Peapod with pea, The peapod wanders over the area occasionly spawning peas that home into the player |
