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SNÖBOLL SOFTWARE MANUAL

Software manual

May 2016

Version 1.00

Project group Eiffel

SNÖBOLL SOFTWARE MANUAL

Table of content

1 Introduction ..................................................................................................................................... 3

1.1 ... Rules ................................................................................................................................................. 3

1.2 ... Game Requirements......................................................................................................................... 4

2 How To’s .......................................................................................................................................... 5

2.1 ... Set Up a new Game .......................................................................................................................... 5

2.2 ... Options menu ................................................................................................................................... 5

2.2.1 Sound button ................................................................................................................................................ 5

2.2.2 Zones Button ................................................................................................................................................ 5

2.2.3 Shrink Mode Button ..................................................................................................................................... 5

2.2.4 Set Time Slider .............................................................................................................................................. 5

2.2.5 Set Power Up Frequency Slider .................................................................................................................... 5

2.2.6 Set Number of Players Slider ........................................................................................................................ 6

2.2.7 Select Map infinity scroll .............................................................................................................................. 6

2.2.8 Select Ball colors infinity scroll ..................................................................................................................... 6

2.3 ... Play a Game ..................................................................................................................................... 6

2.3.1 Controls ........................................................................................................................................................ 6

2.3.2 Pause ............................................................................................................................................................ 6

2.4 ... Winning ............................................................................................................................................ 6

2.5 ... Restarting the Game ........................................................................................................................ 6

2.6 ... Quitting the Game ........................................................................................................................... 6

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1 Introduction

Welcome to Snöboll, a couch multiplayer in which two to four players challenge each other and

climate change, to become the greatest snowball. You steal snow from your opponents to

become the largest before the world reached a temperature where you can no longer survive.

1.1 Rules

As mentioned above the goal with the game is to be the largest among the players when the

time is up i.e. the global warming “melts” the world. To grow you will have to either steal snow

from your opponents or stay in “grow zones”.

To steal the snow from an opponent you either have to jump on top of their snowball or roll

over it. The player who is on top in a collision will steal snow from the player underneath.

The grow zones will appear randomly in the map. You will gain snow while staying in these

zones but be aware, there are also shrinking zones! While staying in these zones you will lose

snow and become smaller.

Grow zone – entering it

makes you grow and

because your mass is

increasing the speed is

decreasing making your

snowball slower.

Figure1-snow zone Figure2 – ice bucket zone

Shrinking zone – instead

of making you slower and

bigger this zone will

decrease your size and

therefore making you go

faster.

Figure3 – fire zone Figure – champagne rain zone

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Another feature are various aids, called power-ups, that are released randomly on the maps.

These can either give you the help you need or be used against you. There are four different

kinds of power-ups:

Figure5 – Slower/Faster, Shield, No jump, Inverted (from left to right)

Faster/Slower: there is a 50% chance that your movement speed will either increase or

decrease.

Shield: adds a protection to your ball. If someone jumps on you, they won’t be able to steal any

snow from you. However, you can still jump on other players and steal their snow.

No Jump: randomly selects one of the players that won’t be able to jump for a while.

Invert: everyone except you will have inverted controls when moving around the map.

1.2 Game Requirements

Requirements:

Operating systems: Windows 8/10 or Mac OS X.

Graphic card: Anyone that supports DirectX 9 or newer.

CPU: Generally anything made since 2006.

Game controllers preferred but it is able to play with keyboard also.

1.3 Installation

To install the game unzip the file and just double click on the .exe file.

To uninstall the game delete the game folder.

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2 How To’s

2.1 Set Up a new Game

When the game is opened it will ask you to press any key and by following this instruction you

will be redirected to the options menu.

The options will be set to a default setting if you do not change them. To change the options

move around either with your assigned left-right/ up-down keys [see Controls 2.3.1] or the

joystick on your controller, clicking either the Enter key or the X-key to toggle the buttons.

When you are satisfied with your settings press the start in the same fashion as before. It will

bring you to another scene where you are able to change the color of your snowball. This menu

is controlled in the same way as the previous one except that you have to select your choice of

color with your assigned jump key [see Controls 2.3.1].

When you feel satisfied with your color press play and the battle may begin!

2.2 Options menu

2.2.1 Sound button

By selecting/deselecting the sound button the user can choose whether or not to activate the

sound effects and music of the game. When it is gray the sound is activated and deactivated

when it is white.

2.2.2 Zones Button

By selecting/deselecting the zones button the user can choose whether or not to activate the in-

game melt and snow zones. When it is gray the sound is activated and deactivated when it is

white.

2.2.3 Shrink Mode Button

By selecting/deselecting the shrink mode button the user can choose whether or not the players

size will decrease continuously. The game ends when there is just one player remaining. When it

is gray the sound is activated and deactivated when it is white.

2.2.4 Set Time Slider

With the time slider the user can set the in-game timer which controls the duration of one

round. During shrink mode the timer is deactivated.

2.2.5 Set Power-Up Frequency Slider

With the power-up slider the user can choose between none, low, medium and high frequency

of power-up occurrence.

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2.2.6 Set Number of Players-Slider

With the player-slider, the users can set how many players are to play the game.

2.2.7 Select Map infinity scroll

This is for the users to select what map to play.

2.2.8 Select Ball colors infinity scroll

This is for the users to select the color of their snowballs.

2.3 Play a Game

2.3.1 Controls

The game is meant to be played with controllers, however it is possible to play it with keyboard.

2.3.2 Pause

To pause the game press either escape on your keyboard or the start button on your controller.

This will bring up a screen from which you can either resume your game or go to the main

menu. To resume the game either press resume, escape on your keyboard or the start-button

on your controller.

2.4 Winning

When the timer ends or there is only one player left

during shrink-mode, the round will end and a scoreboard

will show.

The player that has the biggest snowball when the game

ends wins.

From the scoreboard you can either start a new round or

go back to the main menu to change your settings.

2.5 Restarting the Game

To restart the game during an ongoing round press escape

to bring up the pause menu. Here you have the option to

go back to main menu. From the main menu

you can then start a new game. To restart a game from

Figure6 – game controls the scoreboard press restart.

2.6 Quitting the Game

To restart the game during an ongoing round press escape (start-button with game controller)

to bring up the pause menu. Here you have the option to go back to main menu. From the main

menu you can then exit the game. To restart a game from the scoreboard, press main menu.

From the main menu you can then exit the game.

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ENJOY!

Regards,

Eiffel team

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