Mine Field¢----------¢¢Written by John E. (TEBSF)¢¢'Mine Field' is my first ever attempt at a 'real game'. As you may have noticed from the title it is a 'Mine Sweeper' clone where the object of the game is to disarm the hidden mines.¢ When the game loads you will be presented with the title screen and are able to choose the starting level. There are three levels to choose and level 1 has 50 bombs, level 2 has 100 bombs and level 3 has 200 bombs.¢ After the completion of a screen you go onto the next level (where applicable). The higher the level you are on the higher your bonus starts but, of course, because there are more bombs the level is much more difficult to complete! Your bonus IS NOT a timer! Your game does not end when it reaches zero.¢ When you are finally able to play (after the 'little' pause) you'll see a cross-hair sprite which can be move by the joystick in port one. Pressing FIRE over a square will unearth the number under the square (if you're lucky!) but if you think the square contains a mine you must press the SPACE BAR to disarm it!¢ If you accidentily unearth a mine then your game is over. Your game is also over if you press SPACE BAR over a safe square.¢ If you haven't played a game like this before then I'll try to explain it a little better!¢ If you unearth a square and it contain the number '2' then it means that of the eight adjacent squares surrounding the '2', two of them contain bombs. If the square you unearth is blank then it means NONE of the eight adjacent squares contain a bomb (thus, it's safe to unearth them all).¢*¢Here's an example of a section of the mine field...¢¢¢ ZZZZ?¢ Z111?¢ ZBZZ?¢¢¢The 'B' denotes a bomb and the 'Z's denote a piece of the playfield which CANNOT be a bomb! The '?' shows a section of the playfield which MAYBE a bomb. One of these '?' is definitely a bomb!¢¢I hope you understand that! If you don't then try playing the game a little and you may understand it more.¢*¢Scoring: You get one point for every mine disarmed and at the end of each level the bonus is added to your score.¢ At the end of the game you may be able to enter your name into the high score table. Make sure your disk is write enabled as the scores will be saved.¢*¢Well, I hope you enjoy my first game a little. I started writing it early in December 1993 and the main game was finished in about one night but there were a couple of bugs and additions that needed to be made.¢ Spite brought around 'ABBUC 34' the other day and it had a great looking version of this game on it. It was only a demo version though but it looks like it could be the best 'Mine Sweeper' clone on the 8-bit yet. It's called 'Bomb Down' so look out for it!¢¢John E. (TEBSF)¢
