Terav Help

Terav

Documentation

Contents

About Terav
Controls
Health
Powerups
Options
Pause Menu
Credits

About Terav

Terav is a two-dimensional scrolling tank shooter developed in Game Maker 6.1. It was inspired initially by Shiftup's Area Flat games, although the final product has strayed very far from the original concept. The game took just under 4 months to develop. All graphics, music, and sounds are original.

Minimum requirements:
Windows 98SE or newer
DirectX 8.0
3D graphics card with 32 MB video memory
1 ghz processor - although the game will run on less, it will most likely not achieve 60 frames per second during intense gameplay.

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Controls
A and D	Move the tank left and right
W or S	Boost the tank briefly off the ground
Left Mouse Button (held)	Fire normal weapons
Right Mouse Button	Fire special weapon
Esc	Pause
Note: For those who use a left-handed mouse, the arrow keys can be used instead of the AWSD keys.
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Health
Your tank can take several hits from the enemy before the game ends. The tank's current health is displayed in the lower right corner of the playing screen.
This meter shows full health.	This player has lost almost half their health.
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Powerups
Sometimes enemies will drop colored boxes when you destroy them. Collect these by touching them with your tank. The color of this powerup box will be added to your tank's normal weapon. When the game starts, your weapon can hold a maximum of two powerup colors. As you continue to later stages, the maximum capacity of your gun will increase. Next to the health meter you will see the current makeup of your weapon.
A powerup in Terav	This player has collected 2 red powerups and a yellow powerup.
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Options
To modify the options for Terav, on the main menu, click the options button, which looks like a gear. The following list of checkboxes will appear:
Fullscreen	If checked, Terav will cover your entire computer screen. Otherwise, Terav appears in a window. Off by default.
Play Sound	If checked, Terav will play sound effects on the menus and during gameplay. On by default.
Play Music	If checked, Terav will loop a random song from your music folder when you start playing. You can put any mp3 file in the "music" subdirectory of the main Terav folder, and Terav will load it as music. You can change the current song while playing through the pause menu.
Pixel Interpolation	If your computer has trouble running Terav at 60 frames per second, try turning this off. The graphics of the game will be rougher and less aliased. On by default.
Draw Backgrounds	Turning this off may improve the speed of the game on older computers. The scrolling hills behind the normal gameplay will not appear. On by default.
Use Surfaces	Surfaces are only correctly supported by some video cards. Try turning this on to experience Terav's full graphical atmosphere. If the background seems to flicker, or the background suddenly fills up with one color besides black, then your video card has problems with surfaces and you should turn them off. Off by default.
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Pause Menu
Press the Escape key during gameplay to bring up Terav's pause menu. You will be presented with a list of options.
Resume	Immediately unpauses Terav.
Screenshot	Saves a screenshot of the current screen (without the pause menu) to the "screen" subdirectory of your Terav folder. The game will be unpaused.
Music	Scrolls through the available music tracks, loaded from the "music" subdirectory of your Terav folder. You can also choose not to play any music.
Restart	Starts a fresh game of Terav, with the same Play options, without returning to the main menu.
End Game	Returns to the main menu. You can't continue a previous game once you have ended it.
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Credits
Programming	Ben Roth
Graphics	Ben Roth Eric de Barros
Music	Ben Roth
Sound	Ben Roth
Thanks to	Phunky Monkey Shaltif Deg Scuba darthlupi Ds BBaller Pug Fugly YellowMonkey Hyun Mike Howard The rest of the eo community
MD5 scripts Copyright ©2004 Ville Kalliomaki (Rithiur) All rights reserved.
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