HEROES OF MAGIC by Josep Coletas (c) 2011 J.C.C. THE GAME The woods of the elves kingdom are dying. The elves queen needs that someone retrieve the staff of nature from the shadow wood, a mysterious and magical place surrounded by swamps. The spirits of the shadow wood are the guardians of the staff, and only the staff of nature can restore the life of the woods. A wizard and a sorceress of great power are ready for this quest. Are you ready too? OBJECTIVES 1.Retrieve the staff of nature from the shadow wood. 2.Return to the exit. The game it's a BASIC program, so you can press BREAK at any time (useful to cheat. Look at line 40 for interesting variables). START Press W (wizard) or S (sorceress) to answer the first question of the game. This is the way that the game knows if the player is a man or a woman and it only changes the player's virtual portrait of the main screen. After that you will be asked to enter your name. Your name will appear next to the virtual portrait and above your spells in the main screen. Remember that these two settings will keep in the same way every time you play (you aren't asked again until you load the game again). The shadow wood is randomly generated every time you play. Remember that this is a dungeon crawl style game, so walk peacefully through the shadow wood and think your actions. MAIN SCREEN Up on the screen you can see the shadow wood. In the low-half screen you can see your virtual portrait to the left and your name, spells, life points (L) and magic points (M) to the right. There are six kinds of magic in the game. Walking through the shadow wood you can find magical scrolls (spells) of every kind of magic. On the main screen you can see under your name: SYMBOL SPELLS THAT YOU HAVE COLLECTED OF... RAY LIGHTNING MAGIC FLAME CHAOS MAGIC SKULL DEATH MAGIC TREE LIFE MAGIC MOON MOON MAGIC 3 STARS LIGHT MAGIC To make the things easy and fast there aren't lots of spells with different names of every kind of magic. For example, on the combat screen you can select to cast a death magic spell but you can't select different spells' names of death magic. Talking back about the main screen, the maximum life points that you can have is 28. The maximum magic points that you can have is 27. The wizards and sorceress are phisically weak compared to warriors and other creatures, so you start with 6 life points. You also start the game with 27 magic points. KEYS Q Up A Down O Left P Right SPACE to cast a light magic spell You can cast the other spells in the combat screen only. LIGHT MAGIC SPELL When you cast a light magic spell you can see throught the dense mist of the shadow wood, exploring the surrounding places around you. Your surrounding places will turn to red colour if it's a dangerous place. To yellow if it's a safely place. The light magic never fails. Every time you cast a light magic spell your magic goes down 1 point. You start the game with 10 light magic spells. COMBAT SCREEN You fight the game monsters with a dice. And the monsters have his own dice. Walking through the shadow wood you will meet groups of monsters to fight. The number of monsters of the group is randomly generated every time you meet a group of monsters. In the combat screen you can see to the left the quantity of spells you have of that kind of magic, the kind of magic in the centre and the power to the right. For example, if the power is 1-5, this means that when you cast a spell of that kind of magic your magical attack will kill 1-5 creatures of the monsters group, and your magic will decrease 1 point. On that example, if your dice shows the number 6, your spell will fail. To work a spell you need that the dice show a number into the spell's power. The combat starts when you cast a spell. You are always the first to move (yellow dice) and the group of monsters the second (red dice). For example, after you cast an offensive spell, the monsters will attack with his dice (if there's still some monster after your attack!). His dice points are substracted from your life points every time they attack. If you cast a life magic spell or a moon magic spell and you are lucky (the spell works), the monsters will remain quietly, waiting for a good chance to attack (the spell fails). SPELLS LIGHTNING MAGIC SPELL - Kills 1 to 5 monsters. CHAOS MAGIC SPELL - Kills 1 to 5 monsters and in a second round kills 1 to 6 monsters. DEATH MAGIC SPELL - Kills 1 to 6 monsters. LIFE MAGIC SPELL When you cast a life magic spell your life points go up the same number of points of your dice outcome. If the dice shows 6 the spell fails. MOON MAGIC SPELL When you cast a moon magic spell your magic points go up the same number of points of your dice outcome. If the dice shows 6 the spell fails. MONSTERS SPECIAL ABILITY Many creatures have a special ability. When the monsters dice shows 6, they attack and if they have a special ability they use it. Be careful because: You can't retreat during a combat. This game isn't for cowards! Every time you cast a spell your magic goes down 1 point. If your life points or magic points reach zero you die. If you run short of offensive spells you die. PASS TURN If you try to cast a magic spell with 0 quantity, you pass turn, lose 1 magic point and the enemy attacks. THE STAFF OF NATURE The staff of nature can be in many places. Every time you start a new game, his place changes. Of course as you go through the shadow wood you can find some help in your quest. Good luck! LOADING Type LOAD"" then press ENTER. This game uses the utility named "COMPRESOR Y DESCOMPRESOR DE PANTALLAS" by Miguel Sepulveda from the MICROHOBBY magazine to show bigger graphics than the UDGs. Windows Graphic Editor used: ZX-Paintbrush by Claus Jahn.