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Welcome to Quantum Jump!
New in this version, Quantum will check your spelling and give
you up to three extra chances if you match at least half the letters in
the name correctly.
This version of Quantum Jump will support up to 99 players! The
UNREGISTERED version will only cycle through the first 30 questions. Meaning
that the game will keep repeating the first 30 question data base until
registered. Quantum will also not start asking the second part of the
questions until the second data base begins (round two).
Once registered your SysOp will receive the new question
data bases. There is a good reason for this. When I coded Quantum Jump, I
never imagined that the data bases would take me three times as long to
write as the program did! They require a lot of research and planing......
** If you are a serious Quantum Jump fan Please read the note at
the end of this short instruction file. **
Quantum Jump is a fast, easy game to play. When you make your Jump
You will be shown a paragraph of information on your surroundings.
You must ascertain from the clues given, whose body you have jumped into.
DataBase 1 is mostly historical figures. The scenarios start out relatively
easy and get harder as you go along. The game also gets harder as you move
through the databases. In the next database (Registered Version) you must
figure out who you are AND make am important decision in that persons life!
You will receive 2 points when you answer both parts correctly.
For every correct answer you will receive a point. For every correct
answer you make in under 60 seconds you will receive a bonus point! You will
also receive a bonus point when you answer 3 questions in a row correctly.
In the REGISTERED version you must answer both parts of the question
correctly to earn the under 60 second bonus. Also, you must answer both
parts of the question correctly to update the 3 in a row counter. If you
get 1 part of the question wrong then your counter is reset to zero! Both
parts of the question each count for a point.
You can play one scenario every day or play once a week and do all
your Jumps at one time. Quantum Jump will always let you catch up to everyone
else. Just keep track of how many rounds have been played! You may miss the
end of the game!! Read below......
Once 30 rounds have been played. Quantum Jump will reset the game,
delete the player files, write a Winner bulletin and set up for the next
round. Quantum Jump does not automatically recycle to the next round every
day. It will not recycle unless someone signs in and plays the game. This
is to avoid players miscounting how many days are left in the current round.
The only problem that could occur with this setup is that you may decide to
only play once a week. If all other players (not likely) decided to do this
and NO one played for a week, you would sign in and find that the game is
only on the next round, instead of seven rounds completed from the last time
you played. If this doesn't work out well, I will write a cycle program that
your SysOp can run at night to cycle the game everyday.
Once the question or paragraph is shown on the screen, your record
of how many questions you have answered has already been updated. I had a
few smart beta testers drop carrier and look up the answer while off line.
Then call back in with the correct spelling. I fixed them in the end by
updating their record of questions before Quantum showed the question.
When they called back in they found that they had already had their turn
and lost the points they may have gotten that day.
SPELLING counts! NEW in version 2.20 I added a routine that looks
at your answer and checks to see if you have matched at least half the
letters in the name. If you do, then you can earn yourself up
to three (3) extra chances to spell the name correctly. You will also
notice that where only asterisks showed up to clue you in on how many
letters are in the name, now it will show you which letters you entered
correctly to help you along. You can now also enter QUIT in the answer blank
if you are so frustrated that you can't continue and the game will end.
Entering a blank by pressing the [ENTER/RETURN] key will will take you
to the next question.
Player Name Correct Answers Bonus points SCORE InARow Jumps
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Dave Wendling 30 30 60 2 30
In the above example of the score card. The first two are fairly
obvious. Score is Correct answers plus all bonus points. InARow refers to
your 3 in a row counter bonus point. When you sign into the game, you can
always check the score card to determine how many correct questions you
have in a row. Jumps refer to how many questions you have answered. There
are 30 rounds to a game.
I think that's about it! If you have any suggestions, comments or
BUG reports please send them to me.
Dave Wendling
N.U.G.I. ConSorTium (Home of Terra-Firma!)
BBS: 413-443-8788
FiDoNeT: 1:321/227
InTerNet: nugicon@delphi.com
MODEM: Zoom 28.8
***** Quantum Jump Fans note! ******
My plan for future databases is to include the names and favorite
bbs's of any Quantum Jump fan who sends me a real puzzler that I can include
in the database. You will notice while playing the game that Quantum
displays the name of the question writer as well as their favorite BBS!
Send me your best stumper or really funny situation that
our un-named hero can Jump into. You can become famous along with your
favorite BBS's name and phone number. I will include this info right into
the database so that it can be shown with the scenario! Remember, you
can include a situation where the player has to guess who they are and make
some kind of important decision! I can be reached at the above numbers and
addresses. I also monitor the Quantum Jump fidonet echo along with the
FiDoNet echos, DOORWARE, DOORGAMES and ON_LINE_GAMES.
I will also have available very shortly a program for sale which
will convert standard ASCII text files into the database format for Quantum.
This will enable sysops or regular users to write their own databases for
Quantum Jump. This program should be available shortly after I release
Quantum Jump. This will let you write and sell your own Quantum Jump data
bases. It will come for free in the registered version. Or you can
charge it on my BBS for $10.00.