Nanosaur Instructions

v1.0.8 Instructions ©1998 Pangea Software All Rights Reserved Nanosaur is a trademark of Pangea Software http://www.realtime.net/~pangea THE STORY & GOAL It is the year 4122 and a species of dinosaurs known as the Nanosaurs rule the earth. Genetic experiments by the humans brought the Nanosaurs back from extinction and gave them intelligence, but a plague wiped out the humans so the Nanosaurs built a society of their own. In an attempt to further strengthen the dinosaur society, you are being sent back in time to retrieve dinosaur eggs of five species before the giant asteroid wipes them out. THE NANOSAUR You are equipped with a Jetpack, a K88 Multi-Purpose Cannon, a GPS map locator, and a Temporal Compass for locating time portals. You have a limited amount of ammunition for your weapon, but you can gather additional ammunition that was left behind by your predecessors who failed this mission. Your jetpack has been specially equipped to be able to refuel from gas vents found near volcanic areas. When you locate an egg, you must pick it up, and deposit it in a time portal. The time portals will appear at regular intervals and your temporal compass will aim you at the nearest active portal. Once all of the eggs have been transported to the future, your mission will be a success! PLAYING THE GAME THE KEY CONTROLS The following are the key controls you use to play the game. Most of these are explained in more detail later in this manual. Arrows - turn & move < > - spin the camera around 1 2 - zoom camera in/out Command - jump / double-jump SpaceBar - attack Shift - use next weapon Option - Pick up / throw item A Z - increase / decrease jetpack thrust Ctrl-M - toggle music on/off Ctrl-B - toggle ambient sound on/off +/- - raise/lower volume F8 - show frame rate ESC - pause game TAB - change camera modes (normal/head-cam) G - toggle GPS map Command-Q - quit the application at any time MOVING THE NANOSAUR Controlling the Nanosaur is fairly simple. Use the arrow keys to move forward and backward, and to turn left and right. The Command key causes the Nanosaur to jump, and you can also do a “double-jump” by pressing the Command key again at the apex of the first jump. A double jump will cause the Nanosaur to jump extra high, but the trick is in timing the second press of the Option key. THE WEAPONS When the game starts, you only have ammunition for one weapon: the Blaster. Each time you fire your weapon, you will lose one round of ammunition and once you run out of ammo, you will not be able to attack until you get more. Ammunition for the various …