Which Way is Up?
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This game is an entry in PyWeek #4  <http://www.pyweek.org/4/>
Team: Hectic Game Development
Members: Olli Etuaho aka. Hectigo - http://www.hectigo.net/

You're playing version beta 0.6.5.



DEPENDENCIES:

You might need to install some of these before running the game.
The dependencies are for the Python source code version - they are not needed
for running the Windows binary.

  Python:     http://www.python.org/
  PyGame:     http://www.pygame.org/



RUNNING THE GAME:

On Windows or Mac OS X, locate the "run_game.py" file and double-click it.
If you're using the Windows binary, double-click on main.exe.

Otherwise open a terminal / console and "cd" to the game directory and run:

  python run_game.py



HOW TO PLAY THE GAME:

The game gives you some instructions as you start playing.

Controls reference:

KEYBOARD:

Left/Right      Move
Z or Up         Advance game dialogue
                Jump - the longer you hold down the button,
                the higher the character jumps
Down            Interact with the environment, pick up objects

JOYSTICK OR GAMEPAD:

Left/Right      Move
Button 1        Advance game dialogue
                Jump - the longer you hold down the button,
                the higher the character jumps
Button 2        Interact with the environment, pick up objects

MENUS:

ESC             Main menu / Quit

Oh, and one more thing - if you don't find the game challenging enough as it
is, try maximize your score by getting through it without losing any health
at all. This could be damn hard at some points, but it's always possible! :)



KNOWN BUGS/ISSUES:

- Some minor collision detection related bugs and annoyances -
  especially regarding corner-to-corner-collisions.


ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

The game has a home page at
http://hectigo.net/puskutraktori/whichwayisup/

Information about creating your own levels can be found in
data/levels/creating_levels.txt

The game saves unlock data etc. to the user's home directory.

In Linux, this is usually:
~/.wwisup

In Windows XP/2000, this is usually:
C:\Documents and Settings\User\Application Data\Wwisup



LICENSE:

All game code is licenced under the GPL 2.0.
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html

All game content, sounds and graphics are licenced under
Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution licence.
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/


