le sPin ❁ a multiplayer game ❁ What is “le sPin” ? ❁

Press X, and you will be attracted by the left-most attractor. Press Y, and the attractor at the middle will attract You are a particle. You have to move in order to hit plat- you; The same with the right-most attractor and Z. Using forms having the same color as you (your energy amount buttons A, B and C, you cause you beeing pushed back by will increase), and avoid other ones (or you will lose en- the respective attractors. All buttons can be combinated. ergy). When your energy level is too low, you die. If you press one of the forementioned buttons, you will not In fact, you won’t really die: only the particle you control only be attracted (or pushed back) by an attractor: beeing dies. And even this particle doesn’t exactly die because 1) yourself charged, you will attract or push back other player is it only a matter of bits 2) it will be living again as soon using the same charge type. as the next round will begin. Note that the positioning of the attractors is more or less You have to manage to be the last particle alive of each randomly calculated. round: you will get points for that, and if you have enough points, you will win the whole match, which is most cer❁ Winning ❁ tainly what you ought to do. Now look at your energy bar at the top of the screen. You ❁ Beginning ❁ begin with a 2/3 full energy bar. Hitting your color’s platform or universal (white) platform will increase your energy First, each player will press A in order to tell to the com- amount; Other ones will cause damages. Only one winner puter that he/she wants to play (up to six players; But you by round. can increase this constant in the source and recompile the game). Then, the number of rounds can be modified with ❁ Scores ❁ the left and right button. All settings are correct ? Then press start to start. At the end of each round, you will see a circle with all players. The current game winner is at the middle of the circle, ❁ Moving ❁ losers on its border, etc.; Last round’s winner flashes. At the end of each game, you will see the same circle, but the meanNow that the game has begun, you should see three rotat- ing of the positions becomes slightly different: the center of ing gouraud shaded motionless particles called attractors. the circle corresponds to the perfect game (i.e. all rounds These attractors are the only way you can move. won by the same player). Le sPin - A multiplayer game for the Saturn — Copyright (C) 2003 S.S.M.T.F. — This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. — This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. — You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA