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- Interspersion
- "David Stroud."
- (c) "Copyright Anarchy Software."
- VER: .guide 1.0 (24/04/96)
-
- This version of Interspersion is Public Domain, and can therefore be
- distributed (as long as all of the above files are included unaltered)
- for free!
-
- How to play Interspersion.
-
- Piece of cake!
-
- When loaded, you will be presented with the selection screen. This is
- where you select...
-
- The number of players
- The size of the board
- The game mode.
-
- Each of the above is selected by clicking the left mouse button when
- the mouse pointer is over the desired option. The highlighting box should
- move to the selected option, and when you are content with the setup of
- the options available, pressing the right mouse button will transport you
- to the main game screen.
-
- Selecting the number of players.
-
- If you are a partridge, select "partridge" as your player preference :)
- No, really I didn't want to just put "one" or "two" to be selected from
- (yawn), so I used the terms from that Christmassy song instead. Just a
- bit of fun. So, for a oneplayer game, select "Partidge" and for a
- twoplayer game, "Turtle Doves" should suffice.
-
- Selecting the board size.
-
- Again, I have used animal names as a description of the board size.
- Bored with games which just say "Easy", "Medium".... I decided that
- "Shrew" "Woozle" "Aardvark" "Heffalump" and "Blue Whale" sounded better.
- The board sizes which these animals represent vary from the pathetically
- trivial 2x2 cards (Shrew) up to the enormously bewildering (!) 10x10
- cards (Blue Whale). Default setting is Aardvark, which represents a 6x6
- board.
-
- Competition or Leisure Mode.
-
- The "Leisure" game mode does away with the pressure of time, whilst
- the "Competition" mode willingly dishes out this pressure giving you the
- chance to...
-
- a) Improve the speed of your own game in oneplayer mode.
-
- b) Improve the chances of pressurising your opponent into a mistake
- by continually yelling "HURRY UP Look at that, you've already taken
- twice as long as me......now.....PICK THAT ONE!"
-
- The Playing Area (top left)
-
- The playing area consists of a grid of 10x10 boxes, some of which,
- depending on the board size chosen from the selection screen will be
- filled with an upsidedown "card"
-
- Cards are selected by moving the mouse pointer over the selected card
- and clicking the left button. This will turn the card over, and another
- card can then be selected. If the second card turned over matches the
- first, they will stay turned over and if the game is a twoplayer one, the
- cards concerned will be bordered by either a green (player one) or pink
- (player two) box.
-
- Also if the game is a twoplayer one, and a pair is found, turn does
- not pass to the opponent, but stays with the current player until he
- (/she/it:) is unsuccessful in finding a pair.
-
- If the game is only a oneplayer one, then you just keep going until
- you've found all the pairs.
-
- The status panel (bottom left)
-
- This holds some of the variables concerning the current game like
- "number of turns", "time taken" and "pairs found". Depending on the type
- of game and number of players selected on the selection screen, different
- variables may not appear when the game is in progress. (e.g. in a
- oneplayer game, none of the details concerning player two will appear)
-
- The game progression indicator (right middleish)
-
- This is merely a fancy visual display device which enables you to see
- how the game has progressed.
-
- If a pair is found, a coloured bar (green for player one, pink for
- player two) will be added onto those already present, and you therefore
- have the opportunity of bragging to your opponent thusly...
-
- "Look at that! 8 pairs in a row...you've never exceeded 2!"
-
- ...and intimidating him (/her/it:) hopefully causing them to be
- sufficiently annoyed not to concentrate wholly on the game at hand and
- therefore allowing you to gain a great moral victory. Hurrah!
-
- Once the bars have filled up the black area, shortened by a grey
- band on the right to leave the black area indicating how large the board
- is, the game is finished.
-
- The game messages panel (bottom right)
-
- At the start of a game, the "Game Messages" panel will be prompting
- you to start the game when you are ready by selecting your first card
- using the mouse and clicking the left button when the pointer is over
- the required card.
-
- When you do so, the game will start, and clicking on another card
- will turn it over too. The game progresses until the final pair is
- turned over at which point the "Game Messages" panel will tell you the
- outcome of the game, and prompt you to click the mouse to return to the
- selection screen ready to select the preferences for your next game.
- Simple as that.
-
- We need your feedback!
-
- If this version of Interspersion has sufficiently kept you busy for more
- than a few minutes, please take a few more to send your comments to
- Anarchy Software! Do you have any suggestions about how the game might
- be improved? Please let me know if you have, as your comments are
- appreciated.
-
- You can Email your comments to...
-
- Anarchy@nebula.demon.co.uk
-
- Or, if you haven't got the luxury of a modem, you can write to Anarchy
- Software at the following address...
-
-
-
-
- Anarchy Software,
- 18 Cedar Avenue,
- St. Leonards,
- Nr. Ringwood,
- HAMPSHIRE,
- BH24 2QG.
- ENGLAND.
-
-
- There's more!
-
- If you want the latest version of Interspersion (assuming I do another
- one), and you have access to the internet, you can look on the Anarchy
- Software Amiga home page, located at the following address...
-
- http://www.nebula.demon.co.uk/AnarchyAmiga.html
-
- If I do release another major update, I will probably upload it to the
- Aminet, but any minor changes (little bug fixes and tweaks) will only be
- uploaded to the above page. The date of each game will be shown on the
- home page so that you'll be able to tell if the version currently
- available is a later version to the one you have (noted on the contents
- page of this document).
-
- Meanwhile, have fun and enjoy the game. :)
-
- === Copyright 1996 Anarchy Software ===
-