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/	 EASTER INVADERS       /
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--For the Caiman Games competition 2005-2006


//Contents

1.............Gameplay and Controls
2.............Customizing the Playlist
3.............Custom Sound Packs
4.............Custom Menu Skins
5.............Credits and Thank Yous



---Section 1---

-- 1.1 The story
Really simple.  After years of having their eggs taken away by the easter bunny
the chickens sent robots to steal the eggs back.
The easter bunny's job is to protect the eggs from the robots


-- 1.2 The Controls
Left and Right arrowkeys.........Move bunny
Space of Control keys............Fire a carrot
Shift key........................Switch ammo type
X key............................Hold to lose health


-- 1.3 Gameplay
The game plays out space invaders style with the enemies moving left and right slowly coming down.
You shoot carrots at them to destroy them.
When the level is over a new set of robots comes that move faster and have a greater chance of shooting.


-- 1.4 The powerups
There are a few different powerups that will enhance the abilities of your bunny.

Blue...........Increase the rate of fire of the carrots
Green..........Increase the speed of the carrots
Yellow.........Adds 5 triple carrot ammo to your arsenal
Purple.........Adds 2 quintuple carrot ammo to your arsenal
Red............Approximately 3.25 seconds of fast RoF and quick bullet speed on your carrots



---Section 2---

--2.1 Changing the playlist
Changing the playlist of songs that are played during gameplay is easy.
All you do is copy the songs you want to play into the "media\songs" directory under the "easter invaders"
root folder.
Then open up the "playlists.txt" file and put the EXACT name of the song with the file extension on the end.


---Section 3---

-- 3.1 Changing the soundpack
Simply open up the setup.ini file and change the word explosive to a name of a folder under "media\soundpacks"

-- 3.2 Making your own soundpack
There are 7 sounds that are used in the game.

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//File Name   //  When used       //
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//dead.wav    //When you die      //
//explode.wav //One enemy death   //
//explode2.wav//Another death     //
//hit.wav     //When you get hit  //
//nextlvl.wav //When beat a level //
//powerup.wav //When get a powerup// 
//shoot.wav   //When you shoot    //
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Putting all of these into a new folder under the "soundpacks" folder will create a new soundpack.
Next you need to change the setup.ini file.

note : If one or more of the files is missing it will not effect the loading of the game.  There just wont
be a noise.


---Section 4---

-- 4.1 Changing the menu skin
open up the setup.ini file and change the word default to the name of a folder under the "menuskins" directory.

-- 4.2 Making your own
Modify the image files under the default and save them under a new folder in the "menuskins" directory.


---Section 5---

-- 5.1 Credits

Programming...........Ted Dobyns
Graphics..............Ted Dobyns
Design................Ted Dobyns
aahnuld Soundpack.....Austin Hansen
weetawdid Soundpack...Austin Hansen


-- 5.2 Special Thanks

TheGameCreators.com
Dark Basic Proffessional
My Parents
Caiman.us

