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Egg Raider
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copyright (c)2006, Andr Bommel
All rights reserved.

This game is freeware.
Created for CONTEST CAIMAN EASTER 2006

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Some legal stuff
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Do not sell, rent or use commercially without written permission from the author.
Graphics, music and sounds* are original work by the author and are not to be used for other
projects without permission.

*The punch sound you hear when hitting chickens was taken from a public sound database and are
therefore free to use.

I can't and won't garantee this game won't blow up your machine or hurt anyone or anything
and will therefore take no responsibility for it whatsoever. Use it at your own risk.

SDL.dll and SDL_Mixer.dll are part of the Simple DirectMedia Layer (SDL) (http://www.libsdl.org)

You must supply this readme file with the game at all time.

For more information visit http://www.doubledev.com

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More information
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For more information visit http://www.doubledev.com or email the author on snipez@doubledev.com

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The story
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You are the easterbunny ! (you: really ?! I am ?) Yes you are, now pay attention !
You are all out of eggs but without them there will be no easter.
Don't think you'll get them easily. You may remember eggs come from chickens. Well, you can be
sure they're not just gonna give you some.
Fight your way through the green fields and hills and get some eggs.
Beware of any moles and the ever dangerous hawks.
Keep up your health with the carrots you find along the way.
Once you get as much eggs as you can, head for the exit and safely back into your underground
egg factory and get those eggs painted in the egg machine.

Good luck.

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How to play
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* Menu

Navigate through the menu with the up and down keys and select a menu with the enter key.
To return to the menu from the game, press escape.

note: Only start and exit are implemented at the moment. Pressing escape from the game and
      pressing start again will start the map you were on from the beginning. I know this is
      annoying but I may not have enough time to fix this before the contest ends.

* Game

You control the bunny with the left and right arrow keys. You can jump with the up key.
On your way you'll come across chickens (lots of them), moles and hawks.

The chickens will just run you over while the moles pop up out of their heaps.
Watch the hawk, they fly in circle above you and are very hard to avoid.
Though you can take out the chickens with 2 good blows, the hawks can take a beating.

The moving platforms can be tricky, don't risk landing on the edge of one as it might make
you plunge into water.

To aid you on your quest, carrots will restore your health.

Try to collect as many eggs as you can for easter to run them through the eggpainter.
Collect extra eggs by hitting the chickens.

* Score screen

Press enter to exit any time, even while the eggs are counting.

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What's not finished
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Not all menu options are implemented.
You can't load or continue a map.
There are no options for sound, music or video.
There's no ingame help.
There are no credits.
There's no endscreen, so you'll be thrown back to the menu after 6 maps.
There's no highscore list (who cares right, you saved easter).

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Troubleshooting
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* Video

Egg Raider starts up in 640 x 480 32 bit fullscreen by default.
Should you have any trouble, try running it in windowed mode. This should be compatible
with any system.
To enable windowed mode specify "window" on the commandline like this:

Egg window

If you don't know how to do this, you can use EggWindow.bat which will do the same thing.
