A1 Collex v1.0 Copyright 1997 - Puzzle game 1997-06-11 Shareware version Introduction: A1 Collex is a challenging Action Puzzle game. It runs under Windows 3.1 and Windows 95. A1 Collex is in the same class of game as Tetris, Breakthru, Soko Ball and Kye. This is a new idea for a puzzle game with game play as or if not more interesting compared with the games mentioned above. Overview: The object of the game is for Your box, the large green circular box, to collect all the Number boxes, in ascending order and all the Star boxes, from the game board. You may collect Star boxes in between collecting Number boxes. The Star boxes and Number boxes may only be collected by Your box if they are in the Yellow Region. The up, down, left and right arrow keys move Your box around the game board. When you hit an arrow key all boxes move one space in the direction of the arrow. Boxes in contact with the Blue wall don't move. Also some boxes stop at the boundary of certain regions if they can't go into the region. More on regions later. There is a time limit to collect all the Number and Star boxes to win the game. The score that you get from the game is based on the time remaining on the Time Limit when you completed the game. Types of Boxes: The remaining different types of boxes in A1 Collex are: the Free Floating box, the Time box , the Move box, the Hot box, the Freeze box and the Exception box. 1. The Free Floating box is an obstruction and cannot be collected. 2. The Time box can be collected by Your box if the Time box is in the Yellow region. It adds more time to "Time Limit", the "Number Box Time Limit" and the "Star Box Time Limit" on the Scoreboard. 3. The Move box can be collected by Your box if the Move box is in the Yellow region. It adds more moves to the "Move Limit" on the Scoreboard. 4. The Hot box can be collected by Your box if the Hot box is in the Yellow or White region. It takes away a life from the "Lives" on the Scoreboard. 5. The Freeze box can be pushed against to activate it by Your box if the Freeze box is in the Yellow or White region. It freezes all the boxes on the game board so they do not move. 6. The Exception box is an obstruction and cannot be collected by Your box. However, it cannot occupy the Orange region. Types of Regions: 1. Yellow region: All boxes can occupy this region. 2. White region: All boxes can occupy this region. 3. Green region: Only Your box and Exception box can occupy this region. 4. Orange region: All boxes except Your box and the Exception box can occupy this region. 5. Red Region: All boxes can occupy this region. But it causes loss of life for Your box. No boxes can be collected. 6. Blue region: Walls. No box can occupy this region. The Score Board. The score board posts information related to game play. Level - Displays level and game number. Score - Defined as time remaining. Lives - Lost by Hot box and Red region. When zero you lose the game. Time Limit - Counts down in seconds from an initial value. Can be increased by collecting Time boxes. When zero you lose the game. Move Limit - Decrement by one for each move made. Can be increased by collecting Move boxes. When zero you lose the game Number Box Time Limit - Counts down in seconds from an initial value. Increased by collecting Time boxes or Number boxes. When zero you lose the game. Star Box Time Limit - Counts down in seconds from an initial value. Increased by collecting Time boxes or Star boxes. When it is zero you lose the game For further information on the game see the help file of Collex. DISCLAIMER Use this program at your own risk. No warranties of any kind are expressed or implied. The programmers are not responsible for any damages, real or virtual, caused by this program. This program is in no way guaranteed to be uninterrupted or error-free. In no event shall the programmers be liable for any damages whatsoever including direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, loss of business profit or special damages from the use of A1 Collex. A1 Collex is copyrighted Minimum System Requirements 386SX 4 Meg's of RAM 0.8 Meg's of Hard Drive Windows 3.1 Optional Sound Card 3 1/2 inch HD Disk Drive for Deluxe version To order the Registered Deluxe version of Collex Please send $10 cheque or money order either in Canadian or US Funds with name and address etc. and receive Collex with 32 new games and a point and click Game Designer. The program will be sent on 3 1/2 inch HD diskette through the mail. Send funds payable to name and address below. See Help File for further information. For further information please contact the author Michael Treciokas 1880 Juno Ave. Ottawa, Ontario Canada K1H 6S8 Phone: 613-521-5591 E-mail: dw809@freenet.carleton.ca To install A1 Collex If A1 Collex is on diskette 1) Start Microsoft Windows 2) Insert diskette into disk drive a 3) From the Program Manager, select File menu and choose Run. Windows95 users click start on the task bar then select Run. 4) Type a:\setup and press ENTER If A1 Collex is downloaded directly onto the hard drive, then it must be installed to provide an icon for Windows 3.1 or for it to appear in Start-Program for Windows95. To do this, double click on setup.exe in the File Manager of the C Drive (from the files that were unzipped on the hard drive) and follow the instructions. Packing List of Files demogame.dat vendinfo.diz estar.wav sdopen.wav demomove.dat a1collex.exe gelost.wav sdtime.wav egame1.dat a1collex.hlp gewon.wav setup.exe hgame1.dat g1.mid gstart.wav hiscore.dat alcollex.txt sddeath.wav mgame1.dat vendor.txt sddie.wav vegame1.dat click.wave sdfreeze.wav file_id.diz enumber.wav sdmove.wav