Adventures on Planet Zephulor, is a side scrolling arcade game, with fairly simple controls. Released under the GNU General Public License.

The default control scheme is:

Left Arrow  -- Move left
Right Arrow -- Move right
Down Arrow  -- Kneel

Z           -- Fire
X           -- Jump

These controls can be adjusted in the menu which is reachable by pressing the escape key (ESC).

All keys except for the ESC key may be remapped.

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Gameplay:

You can collect powerups by walking over them.

You can kill enemies by shooting them, or jumping on their heads while holding down the jump key.

There are multiple exits from some levels, and a number of hidden areas. 

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Saving:

The game can be saved at any point by pressing the "S" key, and can be reloaded from that point by pressing the "L" key.

The game can also be saved from the menu as well, but the save slot is different, i.e. A save from the menu cannot be loaded by pressing the "L" key.


Editors:
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To use the editors you must have pygame (With all of it's dependencies) and python with Tk support installed on your system. You will also need to download the "Source" distribution, which is in tar.gz format (Power Archiver has no problem with this format, and I assume that WinZip will be similarly un-phased.) This distribution contains the map editor and various custom utilities used in creating the game.

There is a manual.txt file included with the map tool (In the "maptool" directory), and it should be fairly up-to-date.

I offer no support for these utilities, but if you have questions, I will be happy to try and answer them. Send all questions via email to:

info@hollowworks.com


Technical:
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main.py [--options]

Options:

    -h|--help                   Print help
    -v|--version                Print version information
    --no-sound                  Start without sound
    --no-parallax               No scrolling background, may increase performance on some machines.
    --speed=<number>            Adjust gameplay speed, the lower = slower. Default = 20


---- Troubleshooting ----

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SOUND:

Try disabling sound by starting the game with the "--no-sound" flag:

For Unix/Linux users:

./main.py --no-sound

For Windows users:

main.exe --no-sound

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PERFORMANCE:

Try disabling parallax scrolling, and or adjusting speed:

For Unix/Linux users:

./main.py --speed=60 --no-parallax

For Windows users:

main.exe --speed=60 --no-parallax

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UNRESOLVED:

If you have an issue that has not been resolved, please send your questions
via email to:

bugs@hollowworks.com

Include your operating system, processor speed, and a detailed explanation
of the problem, and any fixes that have been tried.


Credits:
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Concept, Code, Art, Sound: Aaron Hachez, with special thanks for code contributions from: Andrew A. Meier


License:
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All data files related to "Adventures on Planet Zephulor" 
including data file editors, scripts and data files are released under 
the GNU General Public License. Please see "COPYING.txt" for details.

All artwork and sound licensed under the GPL. Please see "COPYING.txt" for
details.

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You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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