CHAOSCASTLE - THE GAME


GAME'S GOAL:

 Enter the four levels of the "Family" zone; in each one, a fight against one
member of the alien family is waiting you; these are "Brother Alien",
"Sister Alien", "Mother Alien" and "Father Alien".
 To enter a level of the "Family" zone, you'll need to collect 100£ in the
levels of the "Castle" zone.
 To enter a level of the "Castle" zone, you'll need to collect 100$ in the
levels of the "Chaos" zone.
 You can always enter a level of the "Chaos" zone.

 Kill every aliens to finish a level of the "Chaos" zone.
 Find the exit to finish a level of the "Castle" zone.
In all case:
Destroy everything you can (minerals, vegetals and animals) to be safe and
collect every bonus you find to increase your power.


THE SHOP

 After each level, you enter the shop. There you can buy bullets with the
money collected during the game. Note that the more expensive a weapon is,
the more efficient it is.
 Use the arrow keys to hilight an item and press the spacebar to buy it.
 You can also load or save a game on your disk there.
 This is also the place where you can enter another zone, if you have the
required money ($ or £) (see "game's goal").


COMMANDS

 Use either the numeric keys [1] to [9] (located at the right side of your
keyboard) or the arrow keys to move during the game.
 To fire with the main weapon (Gun), use the spacebar; hold it down to
auto-fire.

 At the beginning of the game, the other weapons are not assigned to a
specific key, meaning that you can choose yourself the key you want to use
for each weapon, if you proceed as follow:
o Select the weapon (displayed at the right side of the screen) with [+] and
  [-].
o Press the key you want to use for the selected weapon.
o You can then use this key to fire with the corresponding weapon, but also
  to add bullets to it whenever you get an "Extra bullet"-bonus.
 It is suggested to assign a key to each weapon at the beginning of the
game.

WEAPONS
 Each weapon has an associated bomb that you can use by holding the
shift-key down while firing, or by pressing both [+] and [-] simultaneously
before you fire.
 The two numbers displayed below the name of a weapon give how many bullets
and bombs are left.
 Before you can use a weapon, you'll have to increase its power to at least
one (the power is given by the number of painted squares in the grid
displayed at the left side of the weapon's name), and of course you'll need
to get some bullets. The number of bullets and the power can be increased by
some bonuses hidden in the "Castle" zone; they affect the first weapon you
use just after you've collected the bonus. Both bullets and bombs can also be
bought in the shop, but not the power.
 The main weapon (Gun) can always be used.

 Note that there are weapons which are rather hot while other are rather cold
and that some aliens may be more resistant to hot weapons, while other may be
more resistant to cold ones, or equally to both; just try and see !
 Hot weapons are better in the way they are less disturbed by magnetic
fields and are able to set on fire multiple items together; but they are
unfortunatly less efficient under water.