NAME
Nikwi Deluxe - platform game where the goal is to collect candies
SYNOPSIS
nikwi [--fullscreen]
DESCRIPTION
You play as a 9 year old boy in a game about his absolute dream: a
world made of candies! Your role is to guide Nikwi through all the 30
levels, eat all the candies in each level and avoid the monsters and
the hazards that each level has. Nikwi has a talent on jumping high -
although his falls are not as good as he would like - and this is his
only armor against the monsters which try to turn his dream into a
nightmare.
Every six levels, the theme changes and the gameplay is altered a bit.
Every two levels or so, new monsters appear - monsters which require
different approaches to be taken in order to avoid them.
USAGE
The game contains two main screens, the menu and the game:
The menu
The menu is the screen in which you enter when the game starts. It
contains three options: New Game, Credits and Quit. You can use the
arrows keys up and down to select a menu option (two bobbing candies
appear at the left and at the right of the selected option) and the
Enter key to activate the selected option. The options act as follows:
New game - This option begins a new game. If you already have a game
in the process and you went to the menu by pressing ESC (see the
Controls part of this manual below), the current game is ended and a
new game begins from the first level.
Credits - It shows a screen with information about the game’s
developers.
Quit - It immediatelly quits the game. The shareware version will
show some teaser screenshots of the full version before quitting.
The game
This is where all the fun takes place. In the game screen you see your
character, Nikwi, the monsters, the hazards, the candies and the
setting itself. For information about controlling Nikwi, see below.
Some screens -like the Credits screen- wait from the user to press a
key in order to dissappear and others -like the logo screen at the
beginning on the game- to wait for a few seconds.
Controls
You control Nikwi using the keyboard. The keys are presented in the
table below:
Arrow left/right - Make Nikwi walk to the left or the right
direction. If Nikwi is in the air, he turn to that direction.
Arrow up - Make Nikwi jump. Nikwi needs to be on ground in order to
jump, but he can also air-jump: if he leaves the ground without jumping
(by falling), he can jump in the middle air. Mastering air jumping will
help the player to complete the game faster.
F6 - Restart level. If you get stuck in a level or you think you
can’t go back, use F6 to restart the level. There are unlimited times
you can play a level, so don’t feel bad if you restart a level.
F10 - Quick quit. If, for any reason, you want to exit the game as
quickly as possible, press F10 and your wish will become true: the game
will exit instantly, like if nothing has happened. Note that the
shareware version will pop a message reminding you to obtain the full
version.
ESC - Pauses the game and goes back to the menu.
OPTIONS
These command line options are available:
--fullscreen
You can use fullscreen mode by running the game as "nikwi
--fullscreen"
REQUIREMENTS
Nikwi requires at least a Pentium 3 or later CPU to work (it may work
with older CPUs, but the use of older CPUs than Pentium 3 is not
recommended and definitelly not supported) running at least at 600MHz.
It also requires a graphics card that can support 640x480 with 16bits
of color (most cards that are available for Pentium 3 support this
mode). Lastly, it requires at least 32MB of system RAM memory.
For smooth gameplay, a CPU running at 2GHz and a video card with 2D
acceleration and 16MB of video ram is recommended. In order to take
advantage of the 2D acceleration, Nikwi must be run in fullscreen mode.
Nikwi requires Windows 2000, Windows XP or newer or Linux with kernel
2.6 or newer. It may work on other operating systems, but we cannot
provide support for them.
For Linux users: Nikwi requires the latest version of SDL (has been
tested and compiled with SDL 1.2.9). Most Linux distributions include
SDL, but if yours doesn’t -or if the version included is very old-
visit http://www.libsdl.org/ to obtain it.
Note: the game may or may not run in order and weaker systems than
those mentioned above. In any case, the use in such systems is
discouraged and not supported.
AUTHOR
Nikwi was written by Kostas "Bad Sector" Michalopoulos
<badsector@slashstone.com>.
This manual page was written for Debian by Miriam Ruiz
<little_miry@yahoo.es>.
SEE ALSO
Nikwi Deluxe Homepage 〈http://www.slashstone.com/more/nikwi〉