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ZCORB
Version 1.1


(c)2006 Acoders
All rights reserved
Website: www.acsv.net
By Jonnathan Smadello

Any glitches or errors that occured during the runtime should be asked to e-mail Johns_program<>mts()net with complete details and Operation System (OS) with the version.

Replace <> with an "at" symbol and () with a period.

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VERSION 1.1 / October 19, 2006
-fixed a glitch that caused infinate lives
-updated online high score table to prevent cheating
-lowered difficulty for Spyrals

VERSION 1a / October 19, 2006
-sending a score online has been fixed

VERSION 1 / October 18, 2006
-released program




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You play as a little cyan blob, Xippie, to collect all of the chips in each round.
You will be given limited time to clear the round.
Avoid the Zcorbs and Spyrals at any rounds.




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DIRECTIONAL KEYS [UP,DOWN,LEFT,RIGHT]
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*Moves Xippie
*Making a selection

Fire button [SHIFT or BUTTON 1 (0)]
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*Move Xippie faster
*Accept selection

You can change the controls to "keyboard" or "joystick" in the OPTIONS menu.
(press the letter "O" key during at the title screen)




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ORIGINAL ROUNDS
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Before the round, two bases will be randomly placed in the field. Xippie's home base will be green, while the Zcorb's base will be red. Once Xippie appears on the base, you can now control it.

Move Xippie to the chips to clear them off. However, a different colored chip will need to be cleared more than once.

* A yellow chip will only need to be cleared once
* A red chip will turn yellow if cleared
* A green chip will turn red if cleared

Each chip Xippie overlap will add one point to your score.

After you have cleared all of the chips in a round, your home base will open an exit portal. During that time, the timer will count down rapidally. Move to the exit portal in time to collect additional bonuses from...

* The number of different sized Zcorbs & Spyrals left in play
10 - small Zcorb
100
200
500
1000 
2000- huge Zcorb

* The remaining time 

Then you will move to the next round.
Every 4 rounds will change slightly. The chips will change colors to increase the difficulty.


BONUS ROUNDS
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Once you had passed every 4 round, you will enter a bonus round where you could be rewarded with an extra life!
You will be given 2000 to the time, trying to cover the empty field with stars. One star adds 2 points to your score. Once you had fill the field completely with stars, you will recieve an extra life and 10x the points from the remaining time.




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ZCORBS
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A zcorb are shaped like a ball and can be the color of yellow or orange.
About every 5 seconds, a Zcorb will be released to the field. They will start off small, but will grow bigger in random timing. The Zcorb can change into 6 different sizes. Depending on their size, they will move slower than the smaller Zcorb.
All Zcorbs will move like a bouncing ball, bouncing off the walls and clearing the chip they touches, but don't let them touch Xippie or you will lose a life!


SPYRALS
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These annoying objects will fly through the fields, causing many problems. They will appear as if they were an item.
Depending on their color, they can rapidally grow the Zcorbs, change the colors of the chips, or chases Xippie. Like the Zcorbs, do not let Spyrals touch Xippie of you will lose a life!




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Randomlly, an item could appear on a chip. The items could be good, or it could be bad.

item      | points
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Cherry    | 100
watermelon| 200
apple     | 300
lemon     | 400
orange    | 500
grape     | 600
coin      | 1000
ring      | 2000

Most of the times, a spike will appear instead of an item. Do not touch those! They will lose a life! The spikes will last longer than items, but they will disappear shortly.


If all the Zcorbs are available during gameplay, their base will have a star. Reach for that star to gather an extra 2000 points!




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ENEMIES & SPIKES
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If Xippie was caught by a Zcorb, Spyral, or Spike, you will lose one life. All enemies will vanish when you reappear on your base.


DURING THE OPEN PORTAL
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If Xippie was caught by an enemy, you will lose a life but you still move onto the next round without a bonus.


TIME EXPIRES
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If the timer reaches to 0, you will lose a life and skip the incompleted round to the next one.


Once you have no more lives left, the game will be over. Once scored enough points, you will be asked to register your name onto the high score board.
(You can set the number of lives you should start with in the OPTIONS menu. Press "O" during at the title screen)


TARGETED POINTS
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Everytime you have scored the doubling 10000 points, (10000, 20000, 40000, 80000, etc...) you will gain an extra life!

COMPLETING THE BONUS ROUND
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Completely fill the field with stars to have an extra life added to your lives!




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You will be prompted to the option menu when you played this game for the first time. After that, you can press the letter "o" key on the title screen to enter the menu again.

CONTROLS [default=KEYBOARD]
Switches controller to work for the keyboard or the joystick. If you selected the joystick, you must move the cursor with your joystick to confirm your controlling. Otherwise, press DEL to cancel.

DELETE SAVED HIGH SCORES
This will reset the current high score board to it's default listing. After you selected that, you will be asked to press DEL to confirm your decision. (Once you deleted your high scores, it will be gone for good.)

START OFF WITH 3-5 LIVES [default=4]
Press the fire button to change the number of lives you want to start off. You can either change it to 3, 4 or 5.

RESOLUTION [default=WINDOW]
The size of the window for this game is 320x240. If your display driver can support that resolution, change the resolution to FULL.

ASK TO SEND SCORE ONLINE [default=NO]
This will ask if you want to send your high score to the online high-score board at "Acoders". Switch it to YES if you want to be asked to send your score.
NOTES:
	* This requires an internet connection to send in your name and score.
	* If you have a firewall installed in your computer, you may be asked to allow this game to send information to the internet. If this happens, make sure that this program is accepted.
	* Only the scores that made it to your hi-scores can be allowed to be sent.

If you do not want to save any changes, you can select CANCEL. Otherwise, select SAVE AND EXIT.




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This game was intended to be released has "freeware" at no costs. All rights including music, sounds, graphics, characters, and gameplay are copyrighted by Acoders.
If somebody wanted to add this game to their websites, CD-roms, or any media outlets are REQUIRED to recieve permission from the creator of "Zcorb". Any unauthorized individual(s) who vailates Acoder's rules will be asked to remove "Zcorb" from their source. ANY MISUSEAGE FOR THIS GAME OR OTHER QUALIFIED GAMES CREATED BY ACODERS ARE NOT ACCEPTABLE AND WILL REQUIRE LEGAL ACTION IF THE RULE IS VAILATED.