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Gum is an original, but quite simple game.
V1.1 Finished: 10:11 PM - Wednesday, Febuary 5, 2003. (A little late! ^o^)
V1.2 Made: 4:50-8:28 PM - Wednesday, Febuary 6, 2003.
Total time spent on game - appoximatly 8 hours
By: Kritter
Website: HTTP://www.freewebs.com/treefrog
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/ Story \_______________________________________________________
|   Years ago a new gummy substance was invented. Its great     \
|flavor won it the place in the "Yummy Gummy"(c) Hot(tm) flavor.|
|People everywhere bought this new and superbly flavord         |
|substance.                                                     |
|   One day, as a boy was playing with his marbles on the floor,|
|he noticed that the sticks of gum always moved away when a     |
|marble came near. What he did know was he was going to run the |
|second they would jump up and attack. What he didn't know was  |
|this gum wasn't alive, it just had superantigravitoid particles|
|that reacted with the elements of the marbles. After           |
|determining that the gum was harmless, he decided to play a    |
|little game. In this game he would thump marbles into a shoebox|
|lid. In there the marble would bounce around, and the piece of |
|gum would attempt to avoid the marble. He would keep the marble|
|rolling and slowly add more marbles. This eventually developed |
\into a game.                                                   /
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 ________________________/ The Game \___________________________
/   In the game yes, marbles are slowly added to the "shoebox"  \
|and kept rolling. If the stick of Yummy Gummy(c) Hot(tm) flavor|
|gum could avoid being hit 10 or more times by marbles over 9   |
|rounds, it is considered a prize stick. A round is about 8     |
|seconds. In it you get 1 point per second. Also considered is  |
|the number of hits recieved. If a stick can easily make it     |
|through the 9 rounds with receiving no hits, then this is an   |
\"Ace Stick." Eventually, 4 leaf clovers were added as a bonus. /
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 _______________________________________________________/ Hints \
/ *If you are a poor dodger, try staying along the edges.       |
| *If you are an expert dodger, try staying in the middle.      |
| *My advice dosn't always work! ^v^                            |
| *Avoid the top of the screen at all costs!                    |
| *Become an Ace Stick and get a bonus for the levels left.     |
| *Make sure to collect all the 4 leaf clovers you can.         |
\ *When new marbles hit edges, they speed up. This is tricky.   /
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/  _\For the programmers:                     \
\_/_| The source code is DJGPP C with Allegro.|
    | Make sure you move the header,          |
    | "kallegld.h", to the include directory. |
    | This header initializes various things. |
    | For more info:                          |
    |   HTTP://www.freewebs.com/treefrog      |
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    |  _______________________________________|_
    | /_\       Kristos AT amen DOT net         \
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