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a JLJ game of 2009

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Block Towers is a multiplayer PC game for 2-4 players. This is version 1.0.

All the sprites and backgrounds in the game are made by me, and if you want to extract them and use them for something that's OK. Do whatever you want with the game or its graphics, sound etc. Would be nice if you threw some cred my way though.

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Q&A:

Q The game like freezes when I start it up, I think it has something to do with my computer being an ancient and slow entity of the earth.
A Your computer propably is too slow, but you could try opening settings.txt and set the option #background to 0 instead of 1.

Q Me and my three friends can't play at the same keyboard at the same time, the computer makes beeping noises and seems miserable.
A This is windows' fault, not mine. The keyboard is made for writing, and if you hold down too many keys the input doesn't get through. Buy an USB gamepad! Even at just two players the game plays a bit better if one of you are on a gamepad. They're not so expensive, you don't need any anolouge sticks or stuff like that.

Q I want to define ESC as my "throw"-button.
A Well you can't.

Q The game goes into this wierd almost-freeze when I change a player's input to joystick / try to edit a player with joystick input.
A This problem is tied to a specific joystick channel, the game tries to get input from a joystick that doesn't exist. If it is joystick1 that's the troublemaker you can usually just quickly switch to joystick2. The problem occurs when you plug/unplug a gamepad when the computer is in hibernation or some other mode when you shouldn't plug/unplug anything. The right time to mess with the gamepads is when the computer is on and windows is running, but you haven't opened the game yet.

Q Same as above question, but it happens when I start the game. In the last game we used gamepads, but now they're unplugged.
A Again, the code is listening for gamepad input that isn't there. You can either restart the computer or delete all text in settings.txt to reset the options.

Q Ahrg I downloaded the game to another computer and now it runs the tutorial and no fun blocks ever show up!
A Open cntr.txt and set the number to 15, everything will be alright.

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Mail:
joar_l_j@hotmail.com


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Thank you:

-Studio pixel for your awsome music software and for inspiring me on pixel art

-Freesound project for sounds!
HardPCM
Scarbelly25
fastson
Robinhood76

-Tigsource community

-BogoSoft for inspiration on cube-handlin' awsome control scheme

-My friends for playtesting and support

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Don't change this file, that would just be unecessary and mean wouldn't it?

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And yeah, if you mess up your settings.txt by opening it from outside and fiddling around with it, just delete all text in the file and options will be reset.


