Cion
| Filename | cion.hqx |
|---|---|
| Size | 188.5 KB (193019 bytes) |
| Downloads | 15 |
Cion is a late-1990s shareware brick-breaker for the Mac by Brendan Burns of Williams College, taking the Break-Out / Brickles / Arkanoid formula and adding gravity-driven ball physics, a freely-moving 2D paddle, and a sentient android companion named Fred who reacts emotionally to how well you play.
Gameplay
The ball obeys gravity, so the paddle is no longer locked to a single axis: you can move it in two dimensions to nudge, lift, and accelerate the ball through brick patterns that get progressively harder.
Fred the Android
Fred is your on-screen companion. He has a small set of emotional states and watches your play, smiling when you do well, frowning when you fumble, and growing visibly impatient when he thinks you are not really trying.
System Requirements
The Info-Mac release notes list Mac OS 8.0 or later and roughly 10 MB of RAM as the baseline.
Distribution
Cion shipped as version 1b through Info-Mac, with an enclosed About file and a project page at the author's Williams web space (http://wso.williams.edu/~bburns/tad/).
This file is part of the MacTrove archive. See the Thank You page for the upstream mirrors we rely on. It is BinHex encoded — use The Unarchiver to decode it.
