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- Short: A UNIQUE game in the Tetris genre. Readme!
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- 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!
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- 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!
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- 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!
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- Keith Johnson Keith Johnson
- 5404 Nuthatch Ct. 1711 Whipple Dr Apt. 11
- Warrenton, VA 22186-9127 Blacksburg, VA 24060
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- kjohnson@csugrad.cs.vt.edu
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