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Short: A UNIQUE game in the Tetris genre. Readme!
Syzygy V 2.0
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By Keith P. Johnson
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Quick Overview
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Syzygy is a game where you move pieces around to form lines of the same color
that are at 4 blocks or longer in length. Pieces contain 3 blocks, each one
of which can be 1 of 4 colors. The pieces fall in a manner similar to T*tris,
but as I always have tried to stress, this game is NOT T*tris, nor anything
like it. It is merely in the same genre (move-the-piece-to-make-lines). You
really should give it a try!
Features
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* >THREE< different games to play!
* Endurance game - go as long as you can!
* Arcade game - meet the goals, but watch out for random elements!
* Skill game - just how good ARE you at all the aspects of Syzygy?
* Selectable start level on each game!
* 3-d relief look for blocks and pit!
* Game pause key and game abort key! (As well as a program kill key!)
* Auto-pause if game is sent to the background!
* Comprehensive status report during game play!
* "Wild" blocks that can act as 1 or up to all 4 colors!
* Main game play on a >32< color screen!
* Cool purple fade-out-fade-in copper rainbow!
* Super-comprehensive scoring based on months of playtesting!
* Timer-based play! (Should be the same speed on all Amigas!)
* Keeps track of the >TOP 100< scores of >ALL THREE< games individually!
* "Unerasable" champion scores, including the best score off of one drop!
* Displays results of last game and rank of your score in demo mode!
* Works on the A3000 with Kickstart/Workbench 2.04!
* Totally hard-drive installable and relocatable!
* Squashed to take up about 55% of the space it should on disk!
* Written and compiled with AMOS 1.34!
* Multitasks!
* Attention paid to the tiniest details of the game! Little things add up!
About the Name
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I admit I took a few liberties with the name... If you really want to know,
a "syzygy" is when 3 celestial bodies (such as the moon, Earth, and sun) come
to a point in their orbit when the three form a line (such as what happens
during an eclipse). I took the part of the meaning that meant "line." This
is really stretching it, but I decided I needed a new and unusual-sounding
name as an attention-getter. This game was originally called "Colors," but it
wasn't being downloaded that much, the main reason being it probably wasn't an
attention-grabbing name. So I decided on "Syzygy." I hope you like the game!
Keith Johnson Keith Johnson
5404 Nuthatch Ct. 1711 Whipple Dr Apt. 11
Warrenton, VA 22186-9127 Blacksburg, VA 24060
kjohnson@csugrad.cs.vt.edu