Splash! is a game. When you open it, a shareware announcing dialog will appear… read it and go on, looking at the menus. Select the Play menu to begin the game.
You control a platform that moves on the water with the Mouse, and your mission is to save all the jumping turtles that will enter the screen. At the beginning, you'll have to save one turtle at the same time, then when you'll have saved 10 turtles another turtle will jump while the other continues… two at the same time! Then when you'll have saved 30 of them, you'll have to save three at the same time. If more than 7 will fall into the water, the game will end. When you'll have saved 60 of them… you'll have to register this shareware game. When payed the shareware fee to kagi, you'll continue playing with more than 3 turtles. The shareware price is 5 US Dollars! Please register your version, and DO NOT use pirate serial codes. Registering this version will let you use all the further ones. When I'll release a newer version the price WILL PROBABLY RAISE and it will no longer be possible to register the $5 one. Read the Registering section please.
Splash! needs a Color Monitor, SoundManager 3.0 or better and a minimal 640x480 screen resolution.
Warnings
You'll have serious problems if you'll not give enough RAM to Splash! Please, more memory will make you sure of what you're doing (but not too much).
How to distrubute Splash!
Splash! is a shareware game. You can give it to anybody you know using a Mac, maybe telling him that this is a great game (also because, after all, it is!) and that it would be better if he registers this too.
Splash! can be distributed in the cover CD of every magazine only with prior written consent from the author, Ale Volz. If you want to put Splash! on a magazine's cover CD, just email to shine@ticino.edu and ask, and I will probably permit that for a free copy of the magazine. If you’re an author and want to include Splash! in your book’s companion CD–ROM, the same rule applies.
Development of Splash!
Splash! has been developed by Ale Volz in C with the great Sprite Animation Toolkit developed by Ingemar Ragnemalm. This is a game of 2132 lines of C code, containing 64 functions and a lot of global variables. Its basic development toke 8 days of work, and one more week has been used for extra stuff. The most difficult things were gravity and the turtle sprites. Interesting uh?
Contacting the author
Ale Volz can be contacted through e-mail at shine@ticino.edu, or through snail-mail at the following address (Magazines also have to be sent here).
• Ale Volz
• Via delle Querce 11
• 6612 Ascona
• Switzerland
You're welcome to write me for anything… I really like to get emails telling just thanks or congratulations… After all, for my previous game I didn't get any email feedback!
Thanks to…
Thanks to Ingemar Ragnemalm, for his great sprites engine and for the help he gave me through e-mail. Thanks to Jonas Echterhoff, because he's a great Mac fun. Thanks to Stefan Christiani, because I began developing with him, and thanks to Philip Hubert because he learnt me a lot of userful things... and because he's a great guy! Thanks to Ramon Cahenzli for his help about the CLUTs, and to Jona Mantovan for the turtle. Thanks to Matthew David Hills, Jens Lindblad and Jens Bauer for the help they gave me when I had problems simulating gravity. Thanks to David Kamholz for his great bug fixes through IRC. Thanks to everyone I know on the Earth and elsewheres, and to you, reading this file!
Whew… I thought I had done this game on my own!
Legal Words
This software, Splash!, is provided to the user "AS IS". Gemjm makes no warranties, either expressed or implied with respect to the software, Splash!, and/or associated materials supplied to the user, including but not limited to any merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose or against infringement. Gemjm does not warrant that the functions contained in the software will meet your requirements, or that the operation of the software will be uninterrupted or error-free, or that defects in the software will be corrected. Furthermore, Gemjm does not warrant or make any representations regarding the use or the result of the use of this software or any associated documentation in terms of their correctness, accuracy, reliability, or otherwise. No oral or written information or advice given by Gemjm authorized representatives shall create a warranty or in any way increase the scope of this warranty.
Registering Methods
There are many ways to register this software. You can do that through e-mail, "snail-mail" or directly FROM THE WEB! That's Kagi that controls our registrations. The price for a single user copy of Splash! is $5 US… that's not much!
There are lots of ways to pay… MasterCard, Visa, Cash and whatever else. Please see the Register program bundled.
If you want to register through postal mail, please send your informations and your registration fee to the following address:
Kagi
1442-A Walnut Street #392-G98
Berkeley, California 94709-1405
USA
If you want to register through e-mail, follow the steps given by the Register program bundled, after having compiled it all.
If you want to register directly from the web, please visit http://order.kagi.com/?G98 and follow the steps told there.
Bug Fixes
I've corrected some things till 1.0: problems with the palettes, with the Menu Bar and when shutting down the computer have been resolved. I really have to thank Lars for his great testing…
That's all dudes… enjoy the thing and have a good time!
