DEVIL'S CASTLE

by Josep Coletas



(c) 2011 J.C.C.





THE GAME



There's a sinister castle in the middle of the dark

woods where the evil lives. A mighty sorcerer serves

the devil there. At midnight you can listen the

devilish chants and the laugh of hell.



The sorcerer has kidnapped your best friend and the

princess kingdom. They need your help!



The castle is randomly generated every time you play. 

Remember that is a dungeon crawl style game,

so walk peacefully to the rooms and think your actions. 



The castle has 450 rooms. Every room is a square

in your screen.



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).





OBJECTIVES



1.Rescue your best friend and the princess.

2.Kill the evil sorcerer.

3.Return to the exit.





KEYS



Q Up

A Down

O Left

P Right



T Use a torch





USING A TORCH



With the torches you can explore through holes and 

windows the surrounding rooms before entering them.



When you use a torch the colour of the surrounding rooms

changes to green or red. Green for safely rooms. Red for

dangerous rooms. You start the game with 10 torches.





COMBAT



You fight against the game monsters with dices. If your

dices outcome is greater than the enemy dices outcome

your dices points are substracted from the enemy life

points. If the enemy dices outcome is greater than your

dices outcome the enemy dices points are substracted

from your life points. If your dices outcome is equal

to the enemy dices outcome nothing happens.



Be careful because:



You can't retreat during a combat. This game isn't for

cowards!

Every time you attack you lose 1 strenght point.

If your life or strenght points reach zero you die.





POTIONS



You can find three potions types in the game.

You can drink potions during a combat only.



To drink a life potion replenishes all life points. 

To drink a strenght potion replenishes 1 strenght point.

To drink a magic potion gives an additional dice until

the end of the current combat (max. 5).





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.