jockebeast@hotmail.com
http://geocities.com/jockeqbasic
2002-02-13
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     Jocke The Beast presents

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             DARK WOODS 
  
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 Table Of Content
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 1.0 Intro
 2.0 Requirments
 3.0 About Dark Woods
 4.0 Install/Setup
 5.0 Keys and Controlls
 6.0 Hints
 7.0 Other Games
 8.0 Development Credits
 9.0 Greetings
10.0 Copywright


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- 1.  INTRO
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Hi folks and welcome to play my new finished qbasic adventure game.
This is my first attempt to do a ASCII-based game. The graphic sucks and
it's a really small game (6 levels) but I hope that the game will be 
amusing anyway. I've played a couple of ASCII based games and I've
always thought that they are amusing to play.
Nowadays programmers have great skills and creates games with
amazing graphic and sound.So this is a salute, to the 'old days'.
I'm also glad to say that my other games seems to enjoy some of you
qbasic users and I can promise that I will keep develop more games
as long as people want me to.

This game is a tribute to Zach Johnson's Jungle Raul. 


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- 2.  REQUIRMENTS
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Dark Woods is tested using a PC-486 processor, a Pentium 3(800 Mhz)
and finally a Pentium II (233 Mhz).
VGA Montior,Graphic Card and a PC compatible keyboard is
required to run Dark Woods.
SoundFx by pc-speaker (turn off if you get irritated).

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- 3.  ABOUT DARK WOODS
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Dark Woods is a ASCII-graphic-adventure-game.
The product is developed unsing QB 4.5 (no libs or asm).
I've used my Pentium II 233Mhz, 64 Mb RAM, with SoundBlaster 16
to develop Dark Woods.

Dark Woods includes 6 levels.


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- 4.  INSTALL/SETUP
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  4.1 Install
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  To install Dark Woods,use WinZip. Make sure that the filestructure
  isn't changed in any ways.That can/will produce some errors.

  4.2 Setup
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  It's quite simple to run Dark Woods
  Start game using the file darkwood.exe


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- 5.  KEYS AND CONTROLLS
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To navigate your hero,Eduin, in Dark Woods use:

MOVE WEST    - Left Arrow
MOVE EAST    - Right Arrow
MOVE NORTH   - Up Arrow
MOVE SOUTH   - Down Arrow

USE SWORD    - Space Bar, followed by a arrowkey to direct thrust
SHOOT ARROW  - S, followed by a arrowkey to direct arrow
CAST SPELL   - M, followed by a arrowkey to direct Firwall Spell
WAIT         - .  When pressed WAIT the enemies will move

OPEN DOORS   - Just walk over object
TAKE OBJECTS - Just walk over object

SOUND ON/OFF - F

QUIT         - ESC


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- 6.  HINTS
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In Dark Woods you'll have to solve different problems to be
succesful.

# Tip Of The Day 1 
 Don't waste arrows on Orcs,they can be hacked into pieces with 
 your sword.
# Tip Of The Day 2
 Be careful when casting Firwall spells.The spell creates a firewall
 that is unwaklable.
# Tip Of The Day 3
 Bushes can be choped down by using your sword.
 Trees can't be choped down.
# Tip Of The Day 4
 Doors can only be opened with a key.Just walk on the door and it
 will be opened (if you have a key).
# Tip Of The Day 5
 You don't keep the items you pick up from one Level into another
 Level (only the Bow) so don't be cheap with the Arrows and Spells
 if you need to use them.
# Tip Of The Day 6
 When you get killed,you can Continue or Restart.
 If you choose Continue,you'll lose 100 points,so if you make all
 6 Levels you'll probaly not get a very high score.
 I've completed all Levels with the score: 1756 points (died just
 4 times),and I coded each level ;)

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- 7.  OTHER GAMES
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I have produced the following games:

- "Mirkwood" - Middle Earth Tale.III (Tolkien styled Rpg)
- "Riders of Rohan" - Middle Earth Tale.II (Tolkien styled Rpg)
- "The Siege Of Gondor" - Middle Earth Tale.I (Tolkien styled Rpg)
- "A Candle In The Dark" (not finished,my first rpg attempt)  
- "Dreamer" (text-based adventure game,Clive Barker inspired)
- "MASSACRE" (crappy violent game.)

I am producing the following games right now:

- "Mordor" - Middle Earth Tale IV. Work in progress. 
- "ANGMAR" - Idea stage right now. A BIG rpg...

Check out my homepage for downloads and info about my
current projects,or email me:
URL:   http://geocities.com/jockeqbasic
Email: jockebeast@hotmail.com


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- 8.  DEVELOPMENT CREDITS
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 Game Made By: Jocke The Beast
 Developed By: Jocke The Beast
 Produced  By: Jocke The Beast
 Maps Made By: Jocke The Beast
 Graphic Made By: ASCII Microsoft 
 Idea By: Zach Johnson's Jungle Raul.
 Story Made By: Jocke The Beast

 Inspiration: Zach Johnson's Jungle Raul.
 Beta Tested By: Jonge
                 
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- 9.  GREETINGS
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The people/websites in our QB community that means alot for
me are many and here are some of them :

 - Future Software (www.qb45.com)
 - QbasicNews      (www.qbasicnews.com/index.html) 
 - GbGames         (www.gbgames.com)
 - Vplanet         (www.hulla-balloa.com/vplanet.index.shtml) 
 - Neozones        (www.neozones.tekscode.com) 
 
 - Jonge           (beta-tester)
 - Paul Phanks     (the creator of Westfront-Trial of Guilds)
 - Niklas M.       (my Rpg/Tolkien brother)  
 - Penguin         (thanx for your neverending support)
 - Wildcard,Jorden,Sane,Vance,Tek and Gianfranco (great webmasters) 
 - Rob,Ante,Hellbound


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- 10.  COPYWRIGHT
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IBM and IBM PC are registered trademarks of International Business
Machines Corporation.Microsoft and QuickBASIC are registered
trademarks of Microsoft Corporation.

Dark Woods is a freeware production and the author
doesn't want any money from any one.It may be used and distributed
freely as long as no fee is charged for its use or distribution.
The author assumes no responsibility for the use or misuse of this
software. That means that it may be copied and distributed by anyone that
cares to do so.No money or other valuable things may be payed by anybody for
this software production.The only gift I accept is greetings and credits.
Distribute the software to websites and friends at will.

I,Jocke The Beast,take no responsibility for any damage this software
production may cause your computer.The game is tested using five different
computers and no problems should occur if you use the software production
the way it should be used.

/Jocke The Beast 

jockebeast@hotmail.com
http://geocities.com/jockeqbasic




