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by John Isidoro
jisidoro@acs.bu.edu

Premise:
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    Hello gamer, welcome to CityRunner.  CityRunner is a high speed shuttle-
run style driving game.  The object is to rescue the citizens in troubled 
buildings as fast as possible, without wrecking your extra spiffy diamond 
shaped police car, or running out of time

Object:
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    The object of the game is to save as many buildings as possible.  And 
return to the police station when you have saved all the buildings to get a  
new assignment.  

Controls:
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*Title Screen:
    -During the title screen, press <space> to start.

*Driving Screen:
    -Arrow Keys     to move around (max speed = 1600) 
    -CTRL           hold it down to raise your max speed 
                    (max speed = @32000) 
    -TAB            press and hold TAB to get to the map screen
    -to either save a flashing building, or to return to the police
     station, just drive into the corresponding building lightly.
     The police station is purple and tall.  The troubled buildings 
      bounce up and down and flash all sorts of rainbow colors.

*Map Screen:  (while holding TAB)
    -Arrow Keys     to scroll around map 
    -Pg Up/Dn       to zoom map in and out
    -Home/End       to rotate map around
    !!! note that zooming and scaling the map around can cause some details
        of the map to disappear..  Sorry about this... 

Indicators:
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*Map Screen
    -The blue dot is where you are on the map.  Its great to plot the 
     quickest distance from where you are to your destination.

    -The purple dot/building is the police station.  Return here after  
     you have saved all the buildings thus completing your assignment.

    -The flashing dot is a building that needs to be saved.  Go save em!!

*Driving Screen
    -The light blue f is your time left, if it hits zero, GAME OVER!!  
     the only way to get more time is to save enough buildings so that 
     you can return to the police station.

    -The yellow s looking thing is your shields, when you crash into 
     buildings, your shields go down an amount proportional to your 
     velocity.  If your shields hit zero, GAME OVER!!

    -The red arrow is your velocity, 1600 is about the max speed you 
     can take corners safely.  Hint: Don't ricochet off building at 
     10000 MPH!  Only bad cops do that!!

    -The purple AE is the # of buildings left to save.  When this number
     hits zero, you have completed your assignment. Return to the Police 
     station to fix your shields, get more time, and get a new assignment 
     of more buildings to save.

    -The orange S is your score.  Saving buildings and completeing 
     assignments will increase your score.  The quicker you do things, 
     the more score you get.

    -The dark blue F: is your frames per second.  For proper viewing 
     pleasure, be sure to run the version of this game that gets 
     15+ frames a second on your computer.  In order of decreasing 
     detail, the versions are 
     
     CITY.COM       320x200 full texmapping, voxel city
     CITYLR.COM     320x100 full texmapping, voxel city
     CITYULR.COM    320x100 no texmapping, voxel city
     CITYXLR.COM    320x100 only texmapped city..  can you say 386sx!!    

     CITY.COM get 35fps on my 486/100 et4000w32p VLB.


Enough chit chat!!  You know what you have to do Sargent!!!  As the  
ubiquitous Optimus Prime the Autobot used to say..

Head em' up and roll em' out!!!!


