
				  THE MOON SWORD
				  Version Demo beta0.99


Author: The Baalrukh Lord


Contact: send me a mail at the following adress:
The.Baalrukh.Lord@netcourrier.com


Caractristics:
	- up to 2 characters
	- 4 kind of charaters: Warrior, Thief, Monk and Wizard
	- more than 10.000 dungeons generated by the program
	- 2 differents and clever monsters
	- some strategical fights
	- 1 spell (cure)
	- more than 100 weapons (6 categories, 6 materials, and magic weapons)
	- a great number of armors (4 categories, 6 materials, and magic armors)
	- a complete inventory: 8 objet plus the armors

	

The Moon Sword is for now my most ambitious realisation. I thank you for having download 
this demo in order, probably, to try it. I hope you will excuse me for my english, which 
may not be as good as I want to.
The Moon Sword is a role playing game which is inspireted from games such as 
The Elder Scroll:ARENA . It is based on aleatory dungeons (about 10 000 differnets 
possibilities), weapons and armors and a Artificial Intelligence (limited in this version).

To launch the program, you have 2 poosibilities: you may type MOON() in the MAIN directory
or go in the MOON directory and write MOON().
After the presentation screen, you arrived in the main menu where from you can start a new 
game or load an old game.

In the first case, the program will ask you a name for you character, then you will have to
add some points in several carateristics. For that, just add or remove points with the 
left and right arrows and change to the next line with the down or up arrow.

After that, the prgram will generate you first dungeon. At the main screen, you can move 
with the arrows, or access the game menu by pressing one of the function keys. From that 
menu, you can access the statistics screen and the inventory. You can save your game and 
quit too.

The inventory requierts some few explainations. As you may have up to 5 characters, I need 
an inventory where you can exchange objets between characters. So I created an inventory 
with 2 independant columns. In each of these columns, you can chose which charater you 
want to show and if you want the equiped objects or the inventory's one. With the function 
keys, you may change the configuration as you want. To equipe an object, remove one or 
exchange 2 of them, go on the objet, press ENTER to select it, move to the destination slot
and press again ENTER. If you want to cancel the selction, press the ESC key. Easy, 
isn't it? In the equipement part, there is 5 slots:
 - The weapon

 - The helmet
 - The chain mail
 - The gloves
 - The boots

For the fights, when you turn comes, you will see a box around you character. If you push 
a key, the fight menu will appear. If you don't have a bow, you can only strike an ennemis 
if he is at one of the 8 cases around you.


KEYS

* Dungeon
   Arrows	move
   F1-F5	Menu

* Statistics screen
   Up-Down	page 1-page 2
   Right-Left   Next-Previous character
   ESC		quit

* Inventory
   Up-Down	Next-Previous object
   Right-Left   Column 1-Column 2
   ENTER	Select an object- Exchange 2 objects or equipe
   ESC		Cancel the selection -quit
   F1		Change equiped objects -inventory objects column 1
   F5		Change equiped objects -inventory objects column 2
   F2		Change character  column 1
   F4		Change character  column 2
   DEL ou CLEAR  Throw an object


ATTENTION

  Because of the aleatory dungeons, you may not found the exit of a level or the jewel at 
  the 4th level or maybe you will be blocked at the beginning of the level. In such a case
  you have 2 solutions. If you have a savegame at the previous level, reload it. The 
  program will generate a new level. In the other case, you must restart the game. 
  There are no other easy solutions, I'm soory for it.




Si vous trouvez un bug, ou si vous avez des commentaires  formuler, n'hsitez pas  
m'envoyer un mail, pour que je puisse amliorer The Moon Sword.




Don't hesitate to send me a mail if you have some commentaries, or if you have seen 
an important bug. I thank you in advance. Like that, I will be able to improve the game.






						The Baalrukh Lord



If someone is gifty in graphisme and want to draw a few sprites for me, contact me.
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Things I have not done yet:

	- The city (yes, only one):
	  * a tavern for the quest, finding some characters and to rest
	  * a blacksmith
	  * a wizzard (to learn new spells)
	  * a necromant, to ranimate your dead characters  
	- the aleatory quests
	- the major quests et the dungeons which goes with
	- the 13 other monsters and a better IA
	- the spells
	- the scenario editor


					The Baalrukh Lord


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 Other programs done by The Baalrukh Lord:

	- Periodic Table
	  graphic interface, element research, atomic configuration

	- Catch Me
	  Hit the beast which appears in one of the 9 slots.