___________________________________________________________________ | ____________ ________ __ ________ __ __ __ ________ | | | _ _ ¬||_____ ¬|| ¬| |_____ ¬||__|| ¬| | ¬||_____ ¬| | | | | | | | | _____| || | _____| | __ | |__| / _____| | | | | | | | | || __ || | | __ || || __ \ | __ | | | | | | | | || |__| || |__ | |__| || || | | || |__| | | | |__| |__| |__||________||_____||________||__||__| |__||________| | |____ _/\_ ____| | P R E H I S T O R I C \ / Q U E S T | |____________________________________/__\_________________| MALAIKA - PREHISTORIC QUEST (c) 2006, Karoshi Corporation. All rights reserved. Karoshi Corporation: Eduardo A.Robsy Petrus and Jon Cortázar Abraido Official website: http://www.karoshicorp.com Contact us at our development forums: http://forum.karoshcorp.com =============================================================================== -> 1. I n t r o d u c t i o n / L e g a l =============================================================================== Thank you very much for downloading MALAIKA - PREHISTORIC QUEST. This game has been developed to run on MSX System based devices. If you want to know more about the MSX System you can take a look at the Ultimate MSX FAQ in this URL: http://www.faq.msxnet.org/ Although is strongly recommended to run this videogame on real MSX compatible hardware, you can run it on lots of different computers, consoles or mobile devices using MSX emulators. Depending on the accuracy during emulation and the specifications of the hardware running it, the gaming experience may vary. Several tests has been done with this game using real MSX hardware and MSX emulators. Although every compatibility test has succeeded, unfortunately we can not guarantee this game will run perfectly on every MSX hardware or emulator. Also, we'll take no responsability on any damage this game could cause to your machine. Use this software at your own risk!. It is known too that some people are susceptible to epileptic seizures or loss of consciousness when exposed to certain flashing lights, like watching certain television images or playing videogames: if you detect any symptom of involuntary movement or convulsion, disorientation or loss of consciousness while playing a videogame, inmediatly discontinue use and consult your doctor. This package is freeware but it is not freely distributable. You can download it for free only from our official website http://www.karoshicorp.com and from the MSXdev'06 contest official website http://msxdev.msxblue.com If you've downloaded this package from a different URL, please report it to us. Also, if you like the game, we would love to hear it from you!. Feel free to contact us at our development boards here: http://forum.karoshicorp.com =============================================================================== -> 2. S t o r y l i n e =============================================================================== Malaika is the young princess of the Prehistoric World. One night, when everyone were sleeping, strange invasors from a far away land converted all people in Mlaika's town into energy jewels using the power of a never seen before technology on the prehistoric world. They were planning to use those energy jewels into their modern vehicles so they can travel infinite distances and find other worlds to conquer in their way. But surprisingly, that night Malaika was away from her town, visiting some friends from another village. When the morning came and she arrived home, she noticed that she was completely alone. In that moment, she decided to go into an adventure in order to find her tribe pals and put everything in the right place again. Where are her friends?. Why there are now lots of monsters in her town's surroundings?. Whose are the ones making that mess?. Now Malaika has to face her biggest challenge ever!. Do you want to help her?. =============================================================================== -> 3. H o w t o p l a y =============================================================================== Malaika must chase the enemies to discover their secret and to have her town-people back again into their human aspect. She must travel through lots of different worlds fighting monsters and collecting jewels and items in order to succeed. Each world has four different stages and the boss that hides at the end of the fourth one. You, as Malaika, will start every stage from the left, and you must proceed all the way to the right to complete each stage. The stage will be completed once you cross the magical door. In your way you'll face lots of monsters and obstacles that will try to trash your mission away, and you'll find items that will help you in your quest. You must reach the final stage and fight the Alien Slime King for the last time in order to beat the game and finish your mission. =============================================================================== -> 4. C o n t r o l s a n d G a m e B a s i c s =============================================================================== MALAIKA - PREHISTORIC QUEST is a game for just one player. The player can be controled using the keyboard or joystick. ·-> RIGHT - Move Malaika to the right. <-· LEFT - Move Malaika to the left. o BUTTON/SPACE - Jump / Start (main menu screen) Malaika can walk and jump over all platforms around. It is crucial for you to control all distances in order to time your jumps as accurately as possible. During a jump you can still control Malaika's direction. You can kill some enemies by falling down over them heads!. If an enemy touches you, you'll lose an energy heart. When all energy hearts are out, you will lose a live. Also, if you fall down into a pit, you will inmediately die, no matter how many energy hearts you have. =============================================================================== -> 5. E n e m i e s =============================================================================== You'll find lots of monsters around during your quest: - Blue Alien Slime: A very easy to beat silly jelly. Just stomp over it to kill it. - Red Alien Slime: This is a speedy enemy. Analize its moves before jumping towards it. - Purple Alien Slime: Beware this electric enemy, as he can start to spark and become invencible. Don't touch it while its electricity is active, just wait and time well your jump. - Cannons: There are lots of cannons around. Try not to get in touch with them as you can't destroy them. Also they are constantly shooting bullets, so be careful! - Black Flying Alien: It looks like an ugly black bat. It will appear with no warning, and flies all its way across the screen. If you kill it you will obtain lots of points!. - Fireball: Inside the volcano, and at other places, you can find those fireballs of lava just emerging from the bottom. Try to evade them!. - Thorns: They are usually placed in strategic zones. Those horns hide for some seconds and reapear again!. Do not touch them when they are out, as you can get hurt!. - Alien Squill: This strange enemy appears from the bottom and jumps, trying to catch you. It is not a hard enemy. Sometimes it is very usefull when you need to reach platforms that are far from you. - Alien Slime King: He is the leader of the alien race. You must beat him several times during the game: but be carefull as each time you fight him he will be more difficult to beat, more speedy and with more energy!. Evade him when he is sparking in energy and try to stomp his ugly green head when he is disctraced!. Time your jumps and you'll finish him. =============================================================================== -> 6. I t e m s =============================================================================== You will find some items that will help you in your adventure: - Jewels: Those little jewels are almost everywhere!. The Alien Slime King morphed your friends into those little jewels in order to use them as energy!. Recover as many as you can: if you finish a stage with 100 jewels or more, you will obtain bonus points!. - Energy Heart: This item will make you recover one energy heart. You can have a maximum of 3 energy hearts. - Magic Star: By touching the Magic Star, Malaika will become invincible for a limited time. When you touch an enemy in this state, you will kill him so, go for them!. - Purple Opal: The precious Opal gives you 1 life up. Don't miss it!. =============================================================================== -> 7. M i s c =============================================================================== - When an MSX2 or upper is present, palette color changes. - When MSX2 or upper is present, VDP clock frequency switches to 50Hz. To force 60Hz display (with frameskip), press ESC while the game boots. - There can be secrets all around. Try to finish the game for a special goody!. =============================================================================== -> 8. C r e d i t s =============================================================================== Created by: * Jon Cortázar Abraido (aka El Viejo Archivero) -> Concept, code, graphics, music and sfx * Eduardo Robsy Petrus (aka pitpan) -> Additional code, development tools and testing Also helped:Albert Beevendorp (aka BiFi) - lots of support and testing Fernando López Ostenero (aka SapphiRe) - code and testing Antonio Cano-Caballero Pérez (aka makinavaja) - lots of testing Rebeca Llaguno Fuentes - art and character supervision #msxdev IRC channel (Rizon network) - lots of help and support Tools: ASM Compiler: Karoshi's asMSX 0.12e Music tracker: Karoshi's Caruso (MM release) Testing and Debugging: blueMSX 2.6.1 MALAIKA - PREHISTORIC QUEST (c) 2006, Karoshi Corporation. All rights reserved. http://www.karoshicorp.com | http://forum.karoshicorp.com