
L O V E L E S S 

     v1.1


Programming and concept: fsFreak

Design and graphics:     M-TA108
			 VicViper

Music by:                Strukt

(c)2004 Monokey


Story
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The year is 2012. A rare disease is spreading all over the planet, making people incapable of feeling 'love'. 
A group of scientists isolates themselves on a laboratory in the middle of the pacific ocean 
in order to find a cure, but are instead blamed by the government for creating the disease 
in the first place. The government starts a series of experiments itself to find a cure 
but all of them fails and the only thing left is a couple of human beings incapable of feeling 
anything at all. As a last way out, the government send all of those human beings, 
"the failed experiments" to attack the scientists' laboratory. You are failed.experiment.0 and this 
is where your adventure begins.  


Control
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This game is played either with the keyboard or with a gamepad. A gamepad with at least three buttons is recommended.


Features
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You will be controlling failed.experiment.0's spaceship, "child of light". 
The ship's got built-in vulcan cannon, warpspeed-module, and a plasma shield-system. 
The vulcan cannon [Z] is the main weapon used to shot down enemy aircraft. 
As default you will only be able to fire three bullets at once. Once you get a Level-Up-sphere you 
will be able to fire additional bullets. Each time you get hit by enemy bullet you will lose one level. 
The plasma-shield can be used to nullify enemy bullets. When you press the shield-button [X] the shield will 
be activated for 1/3 of a second. In this time any enemy bullet that touches the shield will be destroyed 
and additional points will be added to the score. The shield will drain 4 bars from your power gauge. 
The power gauge refills over time and when shooting down enemy aircraft. The last feature of the child of light 
is the warpspeed-module. To engage warpspeed press [C]. The screen will turn red and everything will be 
slowed down, except for the child of light. This is useful to escape enemies and/or enemy bullets. 
To disengage warpspeed, press [C] again. When in warp-speed, the power gauge will be drained very quickly so be careful!  


Stage grades
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Every stage consists of one or more parts. When a part is cleared out you will be given a grade. 
The grade ranges from E (which is poor) to AAA (which is very good). 
If you manage to get at least A on every parts on a stage you will play an extra stage before 
reaching the next stage.


Game modes
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* NORMAL MODE * 

gives you three lives, extra lives are avaliable at certain scores.

* EXTREME MODE * 

gives you only one life, and no extra lives are given. Also enemy-bullets will kill you instantly even 
if your level is higher than 1.


Scoretable
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Shoot down enemy aircraft: 10 x multiplier 
Parry a bullet with the plasma-shield: 25 x multiplier 
Tech-bonus [stay close to enemy bullets for 1/4 of a second]: 50 x multiplier 
Destroy boss: 100 x bosstimer  


Multiplier
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The combo multiplier is the maintool to get a high score in this game. 
The multiplier increases with 1 for every enemy aircraft you manage to shoot down. 
The multiplier is broken if 

A) If an enemy aircraft manage to escape 
B) You get hit by an enemy or an enemy bullet. 
C) When you reach a new level [unless you manage to beat the extra stage].  


Extra life
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When you reach 50 000 you will be rewarded with an extra life. 
Thereafter you will get an extra life for every 100 000.  


Chains and perfect chains
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When you destroy an enemy aircraft which helps add to your multiplier you're given a 
CHAIN-message or a PERFECT-message. If you destroy the enemy on the upper half of the screen 
you will get the PERFECT-message. Else you will be given the CHAIN-message. In order to get a good 
grade on a level you will need to get as many PERFECTS as you can. To boost the grade you can also: 

A) Parry bullets with the shield. 
B) Tech enemy-bullets by staying close to them in in 1/4 of a second. 

The later one is a real score-booster when your multiplier is high.  


PAGELIP AND DOUBLEBUFFER
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Two EXEcutables are shipped with the game. Running LOVELESS-PAGEFLIP.EXE will result in a lot smoother screen update, but not all graphicscards doesn't support this. If LOVELESS is not working properly try running LOVELESS-DOUBLEBUFFER.EXE instead.



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