Alex the Allegator 2 port to Sega Saturn
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* ALEX THE ALLEGATOR 2 *
* (c) Johan Peitz 2001 *
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GENERAL
Alex the Allegator 2 is a puzzle game for one or two players. Place your tokens in turn on the board or slide a row or column. All in order to wipe the board from your own tokens. But beware, you must also have a higher score to beat your opponent.
WHY?
Alex the Allegator 2 was written for the Allegro Speedhack 2001. During 72 hrs you had to create a game under the following circumstances:
1) The genre was to be puzzle game.
2) It must contain a particle engine.
3) Implement a high score table.
4) Have a donkey somewhere in the production.
5) Advertise for an imaginary product.
6) ZIP-file including source and datafiles less than 250KB.
The game reaches all constraints: It is a puzzle game, particles are used for the removal of blocks as well as the jumping donkeys in the background. The high score table is fully implemented and donkeys (as said above) jump around every here and there. The intialized high score table holds an advertisment for spam and the ZIP-file is less than 250 KB.
All code was produced during the weekend except for the hiscore stuff, I had written it for another game earlier. The same goes for the graphics, except for 2 frames of allegator action, everything is new.
COMPILING
If you only have the source to this game, you need to compile it before you can play it. I haven't bothered to create a makefile, instead run the batch file COMPILE.BAT. You can then start the game by entering ALEX2.
Compiled and ready to play versions for both windows and dos can be found at http://www.dtek.chalmer.se/~d98peitz/alex or http://www.dtek.chalmer.se/~d98peitz/fld
RULES
Each player has an unlimited set of tokens that can be played on the board. When of 4 tokens of the same color connect in a square, they are all removed. When there is no more tokens of one coler on the board, the player with the highest score wins the game.
MOVES
Every turn you can either place a token, or slide a row or column on the board one slot. A slided row or column may not be moved the next turn by the other player.
SPECIAL TOKENS
Except for the normal tokens each players have there are also some special ones. Yellow tokens act as multicolored and can be used anywhere. Gray tokens can only be removed if surrounded by 3 yellow ones.
About every tenth time a token is placed on the board, a gray token appeares at a random place. If a player manages to remove more then 4 tokens in one go, he is rewareded with a yellow token, that he can play at any time.
SCORING
When tokens are removed from the board, the player who removed them recieves some score. This means that if green player slides a row and 4 blue tokens are removed, green player gets the score.
Normal token 10 point
Multi token 50 points
Stone token 100 points
Also, the more tokens removed in one go, the higher score you get. The proportion is exponential menaing that removing 4 tokens and then 4 more will score less then removing all 8 in one go.
HELP
If you would like to have a clue on where to put your tokens, press 'H' on your keyboard. A cross will give you a suggestion on how to play.
AUTHORS & CONTACT
Alex the Allegator 2 was written and designed by Johan Peitz. Johan Peitz
also draw the graphics.
If you have comments, bug reports, or just want to ask something
you can contact me by e-mail.
E-Mail: d98peitz@dtek.chalmers.se
You can also visit me on the web.
http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/~d98peitz/fld
DISCLAIMER
I do not accept responsibility for any effects, adverse or otherwise, that this software may have on you, your computer, your sanity, your dog, or anything else that you can think of. Use it at your own risk. I have, however, never experienced any trouble with it.