JumpingCube
This document describes JumpingCube 0.6
last updated Mar 9, 1998
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JumpingCube is a simple strategy game. It is played by two players. There is a
playingfield that is built of squares, which contain points. By
clicking the squares the points are increasing, and if the points
reach a maximum, the points will jump to the squares neighbours and
take them over.
Winner is who owns all squares.
A move consists of increasing the points of a square by clicking
it. You are only allowed to click a square, from which you are the
owner or that has no owner (grey). By clicking a square, that has no
owner, you will become the owner.
If a square has more points than it has neighbours, every neighbour
will be taken over and increase its points.
Neighbours of a square:
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| | | | |
| 2---> | | |
| | | | / \ | |
---|-----------|---------
| \ / | | | | |
| | <--- 4 ---> |
| | | | | |
---------------|---------
| | | \ / | |
| | | | |
| | | | |
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Winner is, who has taken over all squares.
- avoid increasing a cube if your opponent has the possibility to
let a cube beside yours flow over earlier. For example if you increase
a cube in the second row, your opponent has the possibility to
increase a cube in the first row and his cube will flow over earlier
than yours.
"JumpingCube" is part of the KDE (K Desktop
Environment) project. It was written by Matthias Kiefer
(Matthias.Kiefer@stud.uni-karlsruhe.de).
Don't hesitate to contact me if you find bugs or if you have
questions/suggestions on the implementation
The program is published under the GNU GPL.
Notice: The game idea is not by me, but a similiar game was published
for the good old C64. I´m sorry that I don´t know the author´s name.
Matthias Kiefer, 03/98