CHAOSCASTLE - THE GAME


GAME'S GOAL:

 Enter the four levels of the "Family" zone; in each one, a fight against one member of the alien family is waiting you; these are "Brother Alien", "Sister Alien", "Mother Alien" and "Father Alien".
 To enter a level of the "Family" zone, you'll need to collect 100 in the levels of the "Castle" zone.
 To enter a level of the "Castle" zone, you'll need to collect 100$ in the levels of the "Chaos" zone.
 You can always enter a level of the "Chaos" zone.

 Kill every aliens to finish a level of the "Chaos" zone.
 Find the EXIT to finish a level of the "Castle" zone.
In all case:
Destroy everything you can (minerals, vegetals and animals) to be safe and collect every bonuses you find to increase your power.


THE SHOP

 After each level, you enter the shop. There you can buy bullets with the money collected during the game. Note that the more expensive a weapon is, the more efficient it is.
 Use the arrow keys to hilight an item and press the spacebar to buy it.
 You can also load or save a game on your disk there.
 This is also the place where you can enter another zone, if you have the required amount of money ($ or ) (see "game's goal").


COMMANDS

 Use either the numeric keys [1] to [9] (located at the right side of your keyboard) or the arrow keys to move during the game.
 To fire with the main weapon (Gun), use the spacebar; hold it down to auto-fire.

 At the beginning of the game, the other weapons are not assigned to a specific key, meaning that you can choose yourself the key you want to use for each weapon, if you proceed as follow:
o Select the weapon (displayed at the right side of the screen) with [+] and  [-].
o Press the key you want to use for the selected weapon.
o You can then use this key to fire with the corresponding weapon, but also to add bullets to it whenever you get an "Extra bullet"-bonus.
 It is suggested to assign a key to each weapon at the beginning of the game.


WEAPONS

 Each weapon has an associated bomb that you can use by holding the shift-key down while firing, or by pressing both [+] and [-] simultaneously before you fire.
 The two numbers displayed below the name of a weapon give how many bullets and bombs are left.
 Before you can use a weapon, you'll have to increase its power to at least one (the power is given by the number of painted squares in the grid displayed at the left side of the weapon's name), and of course you'll need to get some bullets. The number of bullets and the power can be increased by some bonuses hidden in the "Castle" zone; they affect the first weapon you use just after you've collected the bonus. Both bullets and bombs can also be bought in the shop, but not the power.
 The main weapon (Gun) can always be used.

 Note that there are weapons which are rather hot while other are rather cold and that some aliens may be more resistant to hot weapons, while other may be more resistant to cold ones, or equally to both; just try and see !
 Hot weapons are better in the way they are less disturbed by magnetic fields and are able to set on fire multiple items together; but they are unfortunatly less efficient under water.


HINTS:

 Some levels are very hard (especially in the "Family" zone): it is a good idea to do some levels in the "Chaos" zone to collect money and to buy as many bullets, bombs and lives as you can before you enter such a level.

 There are only 20 power-bonus in the whole game: you will never be able to use all weapons at full power, so carefully choose the weapons you add power to.

 Each time you are hit, the green band located on the top of the weapon's list gets smaller; this band is your actual "power" and each time it disappear completly, you lose a life. The bonuses with a red cross, present in many levels, can be used at any time to restore your full power.
