Copyright: (c) 1996 Bedsoft


Bedtris Help
Bedtris v 2.0

 (C) 1996-1997 , Bedsoft

 Written by Andrew Bednarz (Freeware!)

Bedtris was written because there was no good PC tetris clone that had everything I wanted in a tetris game, so I decided to write my own....

One Player Game

Two Player Game

Controls

Menus

Customising

Misc Stuff


One Player Game
The game of Bedtris with One Player

The main game:

If you dont know how to play tetris then you're a loss...

Points Mode

The point is to stay alive for as long as you can and get as many points as you can.

Agressive Mode

In Agressive mode there is the added complication that every time you advance a level two lines are added to the bottom of the pit..

Scoring:

You get points by completeing a line and making it dissapear, the number of lines you get at once determins how many points you get:

One line is worth 100 points

Two lines is worth 400 points

Three lines is worth 900 points

Four lines is worth 1600 points plus a bonus

Bonuses:

When four lines at once are completed you are given a bonus... This can be used in one of two ways...

1. At the end of the game, each bonus is worth 2000 points which is added to your score.

2. Or during the game if you really dont like your current piece you can press ENTER and the piece will change...


Two Player Game
The game of Bedtris with Two Players

The main game:

The main goal is to finish survive longer than the other player..

Points Mode

In Points mode the game acts like two seperate one player games..

Agressive Mode

In Agressive mode whenever you complete a line, it is added to the bottom of the other players pit.

Scoring:

Scoring is the same as in the one player game.

Bonuses:

Bonuses only count for extra points in the two player game.. you cannot

use them to get another piece..


Controls

The following keys have functionality:

F2: start new game

ESC: pauses while in game

Player controls are fully customisable. To customise select the Options->Controls menu. Select the player you want to customise the controls for and then click the SetControls button. Now simply enter in the keys of preference. The default keys are as follows:

Player One:

UP Arrow - rotate piece

LEFT Arrow - move piece left

RIGHT Arrow - move piece right (well duuhr)

DOWN Arrow - move piece down one square

SPACEBAR - drop piece all the way down

RETURN - change piece (if bonus available)

Player Two:

W  - rotate piece

A - move piece left

D - move piece right

Z  - move piece down one square

CTRL - drop piece all the way down


Menus

The following menu items are available:

Game

Options


Game
Game Options

New game -

starts a new game!

Pause game -

toggles pause on/off

Stop Game -

stops the game

High Scores -

    displays high score table for Easy / Medium / Hard difficulties

(thought you might find that one hard)

Exit Game -

    formats your hard drive and blows up your monitor.. not advised..


Options
From the options menu you can set:

Difficulty -

Set game difficulty to Easy, Medium or Hard..

Players.. -

one or two

Mode.. 	-

  	points or agressive

Controls -

customisable controls

Piece Preview -

toggles piece preview on/off

Sound -

toggles sound on/off

Music -

toggles music on/off


Customising
Customising Bedtris

 Bedtris has been set up to allow for easy customisation of the graphics and music resources.. Different "Bedtris Themes" are available from the Bedtris web page and everyone is encouraged to make their own theme and make them available. Bedtris must not be distributed with customised resources, only the resources themselves can be distributed as you please...

the tetris pieces are 16x16 and are named:

piece1.bmp - falling piece

piece2.bmp - falling piece

piece3.bmp - falling piece

piece4.bmp - falling piece

blank.bmp - empty pit piece

pit.bmp - full pit piece

the background picture can be any size and will be repeated over the window "bg.bmp".

Note: Carefull of the palettes in 256 color mode.

there are two music files: "BTPoints.mid" and "BTAgressive.mid" for the two modes.

the sounds are wave files:

bedtris.wav - bonus (4 lines)

drop.wav - spacebar drop

level.wav - level change

lines.wav - got a line

Any customisations are made at the users own risk. No responsibility will be taken for any damage caused. Bedtris must not be distributed with customised resources..


Misc Stuff

Copyright:

Bedtris is copyright (c) Bedsoft 1996-1997

All executables, graphics and music written by Andrew Bednarz

Sound Effects stolen from the Net somewhere

Bedtris is FREEWARE, please distribute it to all your friends

Feedback:

Please send any comments, complaints, bugs, feedback to:

bed@melbpc.org.au

http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/2430