PANTZ Version 2003-03-30 (c) 2003 by Boris Iwanski


#include <std_disclaimer.h>

   "I do not accept responsibility for any effects, adverse or otherwise, 
    that this game may have on you, your computer, your sanity, your dog, 
    and anything else that you can think of. Use it at your own risk."

(borrowed from Allegro's readme.txt)



What is PANTZ?
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PANTZ is a 2D top-down space shooter. It's pretty similar to games like
Tyrian, Raptor or DemonStar. Your main goal in PANTZ is to destroy the
evil enemies and to stay alive :)
PANTZ runs in Windows (developed in WinXP); at the moment it only runs in a
window, fullscreen support will be added later. It supports both software
and OpenGL rendering (you can change it in the options menu).



How to play
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Well, just run pantz.exe and select "Start" in the menu. Use the arrow
keys to move and CTRL to shoot (space will shoot too, but is not re-
commende because it can block movement). You can also use a joystick.
Shoot the enemy ships. That's it :)



What's in this versoin
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Right now there is only 1 short test/demo level with some enemy waves,
and an end boss. When you destroy the end boss the level does not auto-
matically end, you have to exit on your own (hey, it's the very first
release and is not supposed to have a great gameplay depth :)



The options menu
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-Renderer: switch between software and OpenGL rendering. You should have
	an graphics card with hardware OpenGL support when you want to
	use OpenGL in PANTZ
-Stretch: PANTZ runs at a resolution of 320x300, which can be a bit small
	when your windows resolution is high, so there's the stretch option
	which stretches the window to 640x800. You should have a pretty
	strong computer when you want to play in stretches software mode
-Use joystick: doesn't work yet
-Accept: applies the selected options to PANTZ. Note that any currently
	running game will be ended when pressich "accept"!
-Cancel: well, cancels the changes :)

If something doesn't work anymore after you changed the settings, you can
simply remove pantz.cfg in the directory where PANTZ is located.



Known bugs
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What would a first release without bugs? :) Here are the worst ones:
-when you switch from OpenGL to Software (or the other way around) it
 might crash at exit
-when you are too close to the end boss when you blow him up the game
 may crash
-the joystick option in the options menu does not work



Contact
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Feel free to mail me any comments! My email address is <boris -at- d00m.info>



Have fun!