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Copyright @copyright{} 2003, 2004, 2005 Daniel Heck
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Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification,
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are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright
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notice and this notice are preserved.
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@setfilename enigma.info
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@settitle Enigma Manual
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@center @titlefont{Enigma Manual}
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@center for version @value{VERSION}
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@center Copyright @copyright{} 2003, 2004 Daniel Heck (@email{dheck@@gmx.de})
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@c @title Enigma Manual
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@c @subtitle for version 0.80
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@c @author Daniel Heck (@email{dheck@@gmx.de})
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@node Top, Introduction, (dir), (dir)
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This manual describes how to install and play Enigma. It corresponds
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to Enigma version @value{VERSION}.
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Copyright @copyright{} 2003, 2004, 2005 Daniel Heck
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Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification,
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are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright
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notice and this notice are preserved.
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* Introduction:: Getting started with Enigma
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* The Game:: How to play Enigma
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* Game Objects:: Description of some game objects
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* Spoilers:: Tips for some difficult levels
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* Credits:: Credits and `Thank You's
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--- The Detailed Node Listing ---
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* About:: Some facts about Enigma
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* Installation:: Getting and installing Enigma
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* Emulating Oxyd:: Using Oxyd's data files with Enigma
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* Distributing Enigma:: Give copies to your friends!
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* Getting Started:: Navigating the menus and starting a game
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* Rules of the Game:: How to play Enigma
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* Controls:: Keyboard and mouse commands
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* The Level Menu:: Choose the next level
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* Game options:: Adapt Enigma to you preferences
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* Two-player landscapes::
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* Meditation landscapes::
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* Explosives:: Dynamite and bombs
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* Flags:: Setting the respawn point
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* Tutorial:: Hints for Level Pack `Tutorial'
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* Enigma Hints:: Hints for Level Pack `Enigma'
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* Enigma 2 Hints:: Hints for Level Pack `Enigma 2'
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* Utilized Software::
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@node Introduction, The Game, Top, Top
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@chapter Introduction
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* About:: Some facts about Enigma
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* Installation:: Getting and installing Enigma
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* Emulating Oxyd:: Using Oxyd's data files with Enigma
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* Distributing Enigma:: Give copies to your friends!
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@node About, Installation, Introduction, Introduction
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@section About Enigma
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Enigma is a tribute to and a re-implementation of Oxyd, one of the
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most original and intriguing computer games of the 1990's. Oxyd first
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appeared on the Atari ST, but was later ported to many other platforms
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and extended into a series of four games: Oxyd 1, Per.Oxyd, Oxyd
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magnum, and Oxyd extra. In 2002 Dongleware, the publisher of Oxyd,
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finally decided to leave the gaming business and to abandon Oxyd.
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Enigma is a clone of Oxyd---with a few unique twists, but altogether
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very true to the original. Even if you have never played Oxyd, there's
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a good chance that you will enjoy Enigma, provided you like puzzle games
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and have a steady hand.
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There is an official @uref{http://www.nongnu.org/enigma, homepage} for
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Enigma that contains screenshots, downloads, latest news, and the most
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recent version of this @uref{http://www.nongnu.org/enigma/manual, manual}.
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The Enigma developers can always be reached by email at
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@email{enigma-devel@@nongnu.org}.
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Enigma is free software, i.e., you are encouraged to copy it and give
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it to your friends (@pxref{Distributing Enigma}). Enigma is developed
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by a small group of volunteers, all of us working in our free time.
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If you like the game please send us an email. It's probably the only
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thing we will ever get in return for the countless hours we have put
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@node Installation, Emulating Oxyd, About, Introduction
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@section Installation
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The latest version of Enigma can be downloaded from Enigma's
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@uref{http://www.nongnu.org/enigma/download.html, Download
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Page}. This page contains packages for the following operating
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The Windows version of Enigma is distributed as a self-installing
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executable. Simply download and run the provided @file{.exe} file.
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Binary packages exist for some popular Linux distributions like SUSE,
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Redhat, or Debian. For other Unix-like operating systems, building
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Enigma from source is usually the easiest solution.
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No installation is necessary for the OS X version, simply execute the
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@file{.dmg} or @file{.tar.gz} file.
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The download page usually contains more detailed and up-to-date
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information. If you cannot get Enigma to work on your computer, feel
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free to ask for help on the Enigma mailing list
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(@email{enigma-devel@@nongnu.org}).
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@node Emulating Oxyd, Distributing Enigma, Installation, Introduction
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@section Emulating Oxyd
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As mentioned in the introduction, Enigma started out as a clone of
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Oyxd. By now, Enigma is finally capable of emulating most of Oxyd's
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core functionality, although the gaming experience isn't perfect yet.
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Enigma still lacks some of Oxyd's game objects, and features like
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network support are completely missing. What @emph{does} work,
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however, is importing Oxyd's sound effects and playing many of the
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Enigma will automatically import every Oxyd data file it can find.
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By default it searches for data files in the following places:
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There's a @file{data} folder in Enigma's installation directory, the
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location of which you can specify in the installation program.
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This is usually something like @file{C:\Program Files\Enigma\data}.
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There are two possible data directories on Unix-like systems: firstly
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the system-wide directory (something like
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@file{/usr/local/share/enigma} or @file{/usr/share/games/enigma},
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depending on your configuration), and secondly a per-user directory
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called @file{.enigma} in your home directory.
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All you have to do is copy one/any/all of the following files to
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Enigma's data directory (remember that case @emph{does} matter on
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Unix-like operating systems):
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@multitable {Oxyd magnum gold} {@file{oxyd1ibm.dat}}
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@item @strong{Game} @tab @strong{Data file}
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@item Per.Oxyd @tab @file{peroxyd.dat}
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@item Oxyd 1 @tab @file{oxyd1ibm.dat}
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@item Oxyd extra @tab @file{oxydex.dat}
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@item Oxyd magnum @tab @file{oxydmibm.dat}
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@item Oxyd magnum gold @tab @file{oxydmgg.dat}
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Per.Oxyd and Oxyd 1 are ``dongleware'' (i.e., some kind of shareware)
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and can be downloaded freely from the Internet (search for ``oxyd
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abandonware''; Google is your friend). Oxyd extra and Oxyd magnum were
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regular commercial games, so you may use the data files only if you have
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a legal copy of these games. Please do not ask us to send you copies of
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any Oxyd version---we won't. Oxyd may have been abandoned, but it's
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still copyrighted, and we respect that.
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@node Distributing Enigma, , Emulating Oxyd, Introduction
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@section Distributing Enigma
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Enigma is free software and may be distributed under the terms of the
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GNU General Public License (GPL). This license comes with every
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Enigma release (either in file @file{COPYING} or in file
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@file{COPYING.txt}). If all you want to do is @emph{play} Enigma, you
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don't really need to read all that legalese (you probably wouldn't
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anyway). For you, the license basically says: Play Enigma as much as
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you want, as long as you want, and be sure to give it to all your
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If you want to modify Enigma or contribute to its further development,
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please @emph{do} read the license, if only this one time in your life.
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The GPL insures that Enigma will remain free software in the future.
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In particular, if you modify Enigma or distribute modified version,
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you may not deny anyone else the right to use, modify, and distribute
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Enigma or its derivatives.
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The preceding two paragraphs are no substitute for the real license,
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but a summary of its main traits in plain English. Please consult the
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GPL or ask if you are unsure or if you need to know more details.
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@node The Game, Game Objects, Introduction, Top
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* Getting Started:: Navigating the menus and starting a game
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* Rules of the Game:: How to play Enigma
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* Controls:: Keyboard and mouse commands
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@node Getting Started, Rules of the Game, The Game, The Game
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@section Getting Started
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After starting Enigma, you will be confronted with the main menu, from
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where you can start a new game, set some options, or leave the game if
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you've had enough. The following sections will give you a quick tour
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of the level menu and the options menu; everything else is hopefully
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* The Level Menu:: Choose the next level
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* Game options:: Adapt Enigma to you preferences
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@node The Level Menu, Game options, Getting Started, Getting Started
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@subsection The Level Menu
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Pressing ``New Game'' in the main menu leads you to the level menu,
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which looks something like this:
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@image{images/levelmenu,,7cm}
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The screen consists of three areas: the top area contains information
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about the currently selected level and the current level pack, the
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middle area displays an overview of the available levels and at the
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bottom is a row of buttons.
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You can move around the list of levels using either the small arrow
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buttons to the right or using the arrows keys. To start a new game,
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simply click on the preview image of the landscape you want to play or
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The level menu labels the levels that you already solved with a small
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medal in the upper left corner of the preview image (a silver medal if
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you solved it in easy mode, a gold medal otherwise). You can jump to
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the next unsolved level either by pressing @key{F5} or by pushing the
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button with the two medals in the bottom row.
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You can navigate the level menu with the following keys:
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Move to next unsolved level
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Change selected level
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Move to next level pack
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@item @key{Backspace}
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Move to previous level pack
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@c At first, only 10 levels in every level pack are available for
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@c playing. The other levels are ``locked'', as indicated by the lock
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@c symbol in the preview image. The unlocked levels can be played in any
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@c order, and for every completed level, a new level will become
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Enigma comes with many levels. Many, many levels, in fact. To keeps
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things orderly, they have been organized into six ``level packs'':
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To move between the different level packs, either use the @key{Space}
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and @key{Backspace} keys, or press the ``Level Pack'' button.
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@node Game options, , The Level Menu, Getting Started
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@subsection Game Options
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The options menu allows you to adapt Enigma to your preferences
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Toggles between fullscreen and windowed display. You can also use
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@kbd{Alt-@key{RET}} to do this, even when you are not in the options
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menu. @emph{Note:} On some systems you have to return to the main menu
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to switch from window to fullscreen mode or vice versa!
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This button lets you change the video mode used by Enigma. Enigma does
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not switch the video mode immediately but waits until you return to the
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Determines how quickly your marble accelerates when you move the
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mouse. You can use the left and right arrow key to change the mouse
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speed during the game.
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@item Skip Solved Levels
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If this option is active, Enigma automatically skips levels that have
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Set this option to `Yes' if you are mainly interested in setting new
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time records. Enigma will automatically restart the current landscape
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if you are too slow. During Time hunt 'Skip Solved Levels' toggles whether
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to skip levels were par was already reached.
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The volume of sound effects during the game.
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This button lets you choose the set of sound effects Enigma uses during
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the game. If you use Enigma with the original Oxyd data files, this
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options lets you use the original Oxyd sounds in all levels.
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The volume of the background music in the menu.
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@c @item Music in game
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@c Enigma can play music files during the game. Turn this feature on or off.
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Toggle between ``normal'' stereo, ``reversed'' stereo, and mono sound.
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@node Rules of the Game, Controls, Getting Started, The Game
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@section Rules of the Game
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* Normal landscapes::
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* Two-player landscapes::
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* Meditation landscapes::
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@node Normal landscapes, Two-player landscapes, Rules of the Game, Rules of the Game
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@subsection Normal landscapes
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The basic idea behind Enigma is simple: In most levels you control a
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small black marble and have to find and ``open'' matching pairs of
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so-called @emph{Oxyd stones}. Closed Oxyd stones look like this
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(there are four different variants, but they all behave the same):
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@image{images/st-oxyds,,0.7cm}
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When you touch an Oxyd stone with your marble, it opens and reveals a
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color symbol. There are two Oxyd stones with the same symbol in every
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landscape. You must touch two matching stones in succession to open
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them permanently---if the symbols don't match, the first Oxyd stone
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closes again. To finish a landscape you have to find and open all pairs
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of Oxyd stones. In the following image you see a pair of green Oxyd
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stones that is already open. The question mark inside the blue Oxyd
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stone indicates that the second blue symbol is still hidden somewhere.
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@image{images/intro-oxyd,,3cm}
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@emph{By the way: if you have not already done so, now is a good time to
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start Enigma and play the first couple of levels!}
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You can pick up objects on the floor by moving over them. The
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inventory at the bottom of the screen displays the list of items in
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your possession. At the beginning of a new game you will be
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equipped with nothing but two spare marbles. The following picture
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shows an inventory containing a shovel, a piece of paper, two bars of
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dynamite, your extra lifes, and an umbrella:
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@image{images/intro-inventory,,1cm}
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The leftmost object can be activated by pressing the left mouse button:
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It will either drop to the floor or perform some action. Dynamite, for
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example, starts to burn when you drop it, and springs make your marble
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jump. Press the right mouse button or use the mouse wheel to reorder
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the objects in the inventory.
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If, for some reason, you do not want to pick up items, hold down any
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mouse button while moving around. You may find this useful in a few
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Many stones can be moved if you push them hard enough. One of the
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most useful movable stones is the wooden stone, which can be used to
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build bridges across water and abyss. This image shows how to build a
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bridge by dumping wooden stones into the water:
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@image{images/intro-plank,,4cm}
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Game objects interact with each other in surprising ways: Objects lying
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on the floor, for example, can be transformed using laser beams and
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movable stones. And many stones behave differently if you hit them with
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a particular object in the first slot of your inventory (the magic wand
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being the best-known object in this category).
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Last but not least: Don't feel discouraged by the apparent complexity
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of the game---the behaviour of most object will become clear in due
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course. Some of the obscurer objects are explained in @ref{Game Objects}.
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@node Two-player landscapes, Meditation landscapes, Normal landscapes, Rules of the Game
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@subsection Two-player landscapes
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Some bad news first: Enigma does not yet support Internet or network
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games. In this respect, the two-player landscapes are really
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single-player landscapes where you can switch between two marbles: the
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black one you're already used to, and an additional white marble:
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@image{images/intro-twoplayer,,7cm}
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You can tell that you're on a two-player level by the little Yin-Yang
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symbol in your inventory. Activating this object switches from the
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black to the white marble and vice versa.
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@node Meditation landscapes, , Two-player landscapes, Rules of the Game
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@subsection Meditation landscapes
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In the so-called meditation landscapes your job is quite different:
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Instead of finding matching Oxyd stones, you have to put a number of
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small white marbles into pits on the floor. The level is finished as
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soon as every marble @emph{rests} in its own pit.
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@image{images/intro-meditation,,3cm}
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Be careful though: All marbles move together and a sudden mouse
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movement can easily push some of them out of their pits. Meditation
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landscapes usually require a very steady hand and a lot of patience
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(which is, incidentally, why they are called meditation landscapes!).
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@node Controls, , Rules of the Game, The Game
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Here is a list of controls during the game. (You need not memorize it
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now--you can always display this list during the game by pressing the
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@item Left mouse button
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Use first item in inventory
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@item Right mouse button/mouse wheel
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Rotate inventory items
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Kill the current marble and restart the level
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Move to the next level
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Move to the next unsolved level
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@item @key{Left arrow}
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@item @key{Right arrow}
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Toggle between fullscreen and windowed display
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Return to the level menu immediately
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@node Game Objects, Spoilers, The Game, Top
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@chapter Game Objects
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@c @node Special Objects,,,
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@c @section Special Objects
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@c @node Predators,,,
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@c @subsection Predators
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@node Items, Stones, Game Objects, Game Objects
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* Explosives:: Dynamite and bombs
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* Flags:: Setting the respawn point
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@node Explosives, Umbrellas, Items, Items
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@subsection Explosives
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@image{images/it-explosives,,0.7cm}
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There are three types of explosives you can come across in Enigma.
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The most harmless is the stick of dynamite. It doesn't do much damage
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to floor tiles or neighboring stones when it explodes, but it is
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useful for destroying certain stones and for igniting nearby bombs.
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Black bombs are powerful enough to destroy most floor tiles and many
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other objects. For most purposes, they are the explosive of choice.
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White bombs have the explosive power of five black bombs--get away
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quickly if you see them burn!
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@node Umbrellas, Flags, Explosives, Items
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@subsection Umbrellas
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@image{images/it-umbrella,,0.7cm}
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Use umbrellas to make your marble invulnerable for a short amount of
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time (ten seconds to be exact). When you activate an umbrella, a white
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halo will appear around your marble for as long as the protection lasts.
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If the halo starts to blink, you have three seconds to move your marble
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@node Flags, , Umbrellas, Items
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@image{images/it-flags,,0.7cm}
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Flags are primarily useful on long and dangerous journeys. If your
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marble is destroyed, the new marble will appear where where you last
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dropped a flat, instead of at the beginning of the level. There are two
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types of flags: a black one and a white one, which set the starting
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point of the black and the white marble respectively.
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@c @node Teleporters, Elastic Band, Flags, Items
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@c @subsection Teleporters
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@c @node Elastic Band, , Teleporters, Items
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@c @subsection Elastic Band
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@node Stones, , Items, Game Objects
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@node Lethal Stones, Swap Stones, Stones, Stones
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@subsection Lethal Stones
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@image{images/st-lethal,,0.7cm}
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There are two kinds of stones that you should avoid at all costs, at
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least if you do not have an umbrella to protect your precious marble.
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The @emph{skull stone} is as unhealthy as it looks; touch it and
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perish. Really, you have been warned. There's an even more cunning
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variant that is invisible; don't forget your magic glasses.
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The @emph{black knight} often guards important passageways, and he's
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generally @emph{not} in the mood to let you pass. Bring a good
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argument to ``convince'' him.
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@node Swap Stones, Mirrors, Lethal Stones, Stones
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@subsection Swap Stones
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@image{images/st-swap,,0.7cm}
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Swap stones do not simply move to an adjacent (empty) field when being
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pushed; instead, they change places with the stone they are being
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pushed into. The only way to move a swap stone from one place to
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another is consequently to repeatedly interchange it with other
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@c @node Lasers, Mirrors, Swap Stones, Stones
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@c @subsection Lasers
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@c Both interesting and da
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@node Mirrors, Magic Stones, Swap Stones, Stones
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@image{images/st-mirrors,,0.7cm}
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Laser beams can be deflected with the help of mirror stones.
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There are two types of mirrors in Enigma: plane mirrors and triangular
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mirrors. A plane mirror behaves like an ordinary mirror: An incoming
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laser beam is reflected if it is perpendicular to the mirror and
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deflected to the left or right if it hits the mirror at an angle of 45
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Triangular mirrors are a little more tricky: The three faces behave
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like regular mirrors, either reflecting or deflecting an incident
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beam. But a beam that falls on the tip of the triangle gets split
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into @emph{two} outgoing beams that travel in opposite directions.
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Both types of mirrors can additionally be semitransparent or
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movable. Semitransparent mirrors deflect part of the incoming beam
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just like their opaque siblings do, but part of the beam continues
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unchanged. Movable mirrors are mounted on a light gray stone,
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immovable mirrors on a dark gray stone.
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You can turn mirrors by touching them lightly with your marble. But be
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careful with mirrors that is already inside a laser beam, it is easy to
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inadvertently destroy your marble!
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@node Magic Stones, Shogun Stones, Mirrors, Stones
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@subsection Magic Stones
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@image{images/st-magic,,0.7cm}
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Magic stones are a relic from the old Oxyd games, where they were used
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as a copy protection scheme. Since they do not serve a real purpose in
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Enigma, you will encounter them only if you use Enigma to play levels
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from Oxyd. Simply hit them with your marble to get rid of them.
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@node Shogun Stones, Electric Stones, Magic Stones, Stones
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@subsection Shogun Stones
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@image{images/st-shogun,,0.7cm}
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In some levels you will encounter blinking blue dots on the floor.
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They can be activated with the right combination of @emph{shogun
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stones}, whereupon they usually do something useful like opening doors
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A small blinking dot is activated by moving a shogun stone with a
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small hole on top of it. To activate the bigger dots a single shogun
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stone is not sufficient. Instead, you have to properly stack two or three
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shogun stones by pushing stones with small holes into stones with
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larger holes. If you want to activate a medium sized dot, for
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example, you have to first place a shogun stone with a medium sized
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hole on it and then push a small-holed stone into the bigger one.
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@node Electric Stones, Puzzle Stones, Shogun Stones, Stones
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@subsection Electric Stones
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Electric stones can be used to put an electric charge on one of your
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marbles or any other movable object. Objects can carry either a
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positive or a negative charge (or no charge at all, which is the
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default). Electrically charged objects behave like regular objects if
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they are far apart. If they are close together, however, they either
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repel or attract each other, depending on whether they carry like or
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@node Puzzle Stones, Mail Stones, Electric Stones, Stones
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@subsection Puzzle Stones
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Puzzle stones derive their name from the fact that individual stones
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can be put together like the pieces of a puzzle. Puzzle stones have
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sockets on some or all of their four sides which can attach to sockets
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on adjacent stones. Once linked up, groups of puzzle stones move as a
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unit. You can use these blocks, for example, to build bridges across
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When hit with a magic wand, puzzle stones behave differently. If the
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block of puzzle stones is fully connected (i.e., it has no open
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sockets), the block immediately starts to explode, stone by stone. If
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the block is not fully connected, the stones in the row or column that
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was hit get shifted by one place either horizontally or vertically.
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There's a rare variant of the common puzzle stone that behaves a
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little differently. The main habitat of this are the levels of Oxyd
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1, and it's recognizable by the color of its pipes, which is orange
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instead of the usual blue. These puzzle stones cannot be moved as a
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unit. They behave like the blue puzzle stones do when you hit them
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with a magic wand: the block explodes if it's fully connected, or
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the touched row or column of the block gets shuffled.
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@node Mail Stones, , Puzzle Stones, Stones
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@subsection Mail Stones
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@image{images/st-mail,,0.7cm}
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Mail stones can be used to send items from your inventory to some
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inaccessible place in the landscape. When you roll against a mail
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stone, the first object in your inventory gets removed and put at the
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end of the pipeline attached to the mail stone. In most cases you
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will have to build this pipeline yourself, for example by ``mailing''
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individual pipe objects.
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Be careful: the mail stone does not work if there is already an object
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at the end of the pipeline. It's very easy to inadvertently send
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objects that afterwards block the pipeline, so be careful!
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@c @node Turnstiles, Bolder Stones, Puzzle Stones, Stones
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@c @subsection Turnstiles
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@c @node Bolder Stones, Elastics and Scissors, Turnstiles, Stones
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@c @subsection Bolder Stones
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@c @node Elastics and Scissors, , Bolder Stones, Stones
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@c @subsection Elastics and Scissors
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@node Spoilers, Credits, Game Objects, Top
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This chapter contains hints for some of the difficult levels. You are
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strongly advised @emph{not} to read the spoilers unless you are
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completely stuck. Some levels are intentionally difficult and even
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veteran Enigma players need hours to solve them. Some levels are
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easier to solve in easy game mode (@pxref{Game options}).
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* Tutorial:: Hints for Level Pack `Tutorial'
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* Enigma Hints:: Hints for Level Pack `Enigma'
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* Enigma 2 Hints:: Hints for Level Pack `Enigma 2'
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@node Tutorial, Enigma Hints, Spoilers, Spoilers
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@section Walkthrough for Tutorial
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The landscapes in the ``Tutorial'' level pack are supposed to be easy.
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Except for the last one, which is not... This section of the manual was
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contributed by Jacob Scott.
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This walkthrough is for my level ``Advanced Tutorial'' in the
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``Tutorial'' level pack (to change level packs, click on ``Level Pack''
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at the bottom-left of the screen and select a level pack). While you
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are playing, you should read all the documents in a room as soon as
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The final goal for this level, as for most Enigma levels, is to find and
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hit ``Oxyd'' stones with your black ball. When you hit an oxyd stone, it
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opens and shows a color. If you hit two oxyd stones of the same color in
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a row, they will both stay open. Once you've matched up all pairs of
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oxyd stones in a level, you have completed the level.
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The level contains about twenty rooms, organized into three separate
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areas. In the first area, you will be encounter some of the basic
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blocks and floor types you will see in Enigma levels and solve a couple
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of simple puzzles. The second area is more challenging and will
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introduce you to a useful technique in outthinking an active enemy. The
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third and final area leads you to experiment with more advanced
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interactions between Enigma objects. In this particular level, all of
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the oxyd stones can be found in a single room at the end of area 3.
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You start in a room surrounded by immovable walls except for a gap to
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the right, some water near the bottom-left, and a closed gate near the
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Room 1: Go through the gap in the wall to the right.
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Room 2: Simply avoid the blocks with pictures of skulls on them.
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Room 3: Push the four wooden blocks into the water in the same row to
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create a bridge to the opposite bank. Now hit the blackish blocks to the
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right. Move the tan blocks out of the way (maybe to the left) and
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bridge to the right with the two wooden blocks.
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Room 4: Go close to the top. When it begins to chase you, lead it to
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the left and around the blocks in the center of the room. Once the top
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is far enough away from the entrance to the next room, run through.
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Room 5: The only dangers here are the skulls near the bottom of the
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room. The first floor type is metal---this floor is similar to the
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``leaves'' floor that you have been traveling on so far. The next floor
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type is ``red''---it is somewhat difficult to slow down or speed up on
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this floor. The third floor type is ice---there is little friction on
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this floor. The last floor type is space---there is no friction here;
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you can't change velocity (speed and direction) when you are on this
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Room 6: Simply go over the slopes. Then exit to the left by passing over
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the ``inverse'' floor---when you are on this type of floor and you push
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the mouse (or similar controller) in one direction, the ball speeds up
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in the opposite direction (if you are having trouble here, try turning
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your mouse around 180 degrees).
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Room 7: Try to get the extra ball by putting the movable block on the
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lower trigger. First hit it up one square and then left six
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squares. Next hit it five squares down and two squares to the right.
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Finally hit it one square up and one square to the left. Take the extra
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ball and then put the block on the other trigger to open the gate in the
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left wall of the room.
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Room 8: Take the dynamite (you will have to go on the ice) and drop it
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in front of the yellow blocks to blow them up and get past. The spade
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is unnecessary but you should still experiment with it.
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Room 9: Hit the lowest movable block to the left. Now the boulders
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trying to go to the right are blocking your path. Hit the rightmost
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movable block (to the left or to the right) to let the boulders
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past. Take the magic wand (don't accidentally hit any boulders when
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the magic wand is in the front of your inventory) and hit the movable
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block above the water down. Now go back to the right of the room, put
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the magic wand in the front of your inventory, and hit the top three
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boulders of the long column (try not to get run over by any
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boulders). Hit the leftmost movable block to the left and go into the
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Room 10: Hit the switch. Now hit the two tan blocks up (one square
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each). Hit the middle (from top to bottom) wooden block to the left and
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the wooden block that used to be right above it up into the water. Hit
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the rest of the blocks into the water in the same column (try not to
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drown). Now hit the window (the blue line) with high speed. Take the
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ball and cross over to the bridge into the first room. From there go
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through the open gate.
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In area two, you will encounter a rotor, which is an active enemy of
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your black ball. Different rotors can act slightly differently, but they
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are never very smart. The way to get past it is to trick it to do what
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you want it to do, while keeping yourself out of danger.
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Look around this area (but don't hit the movable block yet). You need to
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get through the three closed gates at the top of this area.
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First gate: Hit the white ball to the left (don't accidentally go
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through the black one-way block) to free it (this may require a few
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tries). Take the spoon and hit the white ball through the white one-way
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block hard enough so that it doesn't get stuck. Now go through the black
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one-way block and hit the white ball through the passageway. Hit the
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white ball hard enough through the next white one-way block so it
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doesn't get stuck beneath it. Once the white ball is through, use the
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spoon; you restart at the beginning of the level and are no longer
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trapped. Go back up through the gate---the first gate near the top of
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Second gate: Hit the movable block in the rightmost room of this area to
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the right and run. A document with useful information should appear in
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the gate connecting area one and area two. Bring the rotor (by making it
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chase you, like you did with the top) to above the wall to the right of
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the gate between the first two areas. Run through the gate and go over
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the bridge to the room below you. Hit the switch to close the gate and
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return to the room where you initially started. You will no longer be
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able to see the rotor---it won't be in the room where you will be---but
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if you look carefully, you will be able to see where it is. The goal
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here is to, without exposing yourself to any danger, get the rotor to go
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to a trigger and open a gate for you. Get the rotor to follow you from
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the top-right of this room to the top-left of the room. It should be
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pushed to the left by some slopes. Bring the rotor down on the left
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until it will not continue and you hear the sound of a trigger being
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pushed. Hit the switch to open the gate and return to area two---the
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second gate should be open.
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Third gate: Simply hit the movable block that the rotor started under
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to the trigger in the room where it started. Return to the room to your
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left---the third gate should be open. Go through the three open
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In area three you need to explore the interactions between particular
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Enigma objects. Here you will find lasers, mirrors, and coins. You will
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need to solve a simple laser-and-mirror puzzle to get a laser to hit a
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particular stone, which will open a bridge to the next room. To get past
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the next few rooms, you will need to create some new objects by hitting
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existing objects with the laser beam.
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In the first part of this area there are three mirrors and a laser with
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Room 1: You need to get the laser to hit the black stone. Hit the
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bottom-left mirror down one square and orient it so that it looks like a
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``\'' by hitting it slowly (it should be thirty squares directly to the
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left of the laser). Hit the top-left mirror eight squares to the left,
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one square down, and orient it so that it looks like a ``/'' (it should
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be four squares directly above the previous mirror). Hit the top-right
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mirror two squares up and then three squares to the right (it should be
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twenty-two squares directly to the right of the previous mirror and one
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square below the black stone). Put this mirror in the ``/''
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orientation. Now hit the switch to turn on the laser (don't get hit by
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or roll over the laser beam). Once it is completely up, go over the
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bridge to your right.
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Room 2: Take some coins and return to the previous room. By turning off
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and on the laser, hit one of the coins with the laser beam. Take the
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object produced (an umbrella), repeat the process, and take the second
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umbrella. Now drop one of the coins next to a mirror and hit the mirror
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over it. Hit this coin with a value of five with the laser beam to
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produce a hammer. Hit the hammer with the laser beam (by turning the
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laser off and on) to produce a sword. If you want some more balls, you
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can hit mirrors over coins twice and hit the coins of increased value
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(to ten, the highest possible) with the laser. To return to the room
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with the knights, put the mirrors back in their initial positions,
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remove all objects blocking the laser, and hit the switch. Now use the
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right mouse button or the ``tab'' key to get the sword in the front
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(left) of your inventory. Hit some of the knights (four times each) to
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Room 3: Use an umbrella and travel over the abyss to the room below you
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and then into the room to your right. If the ring surrounding you begins
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to blink, use another umbrella.
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Room 4: Simply match the oxyd stones by hitting oxyds of the same colors
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as the activated oxyd stones (one at a time). Don't hit the fart
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stones (the black stones). You win!
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@node Enigma Hints, Enigma 2 Hints, Tutorial, Spoilers
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@section Hints for `Enigma'
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@item #3: Pharaohs' Tombs
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Don't take the papyrus.
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@item #5: Sokoban Revival
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Remember? This was the first level in the original Sokoban... So it
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@item #9: Floppy Swapping
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First, find the floppy disk and the magic wand, you will need them.
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Second, always keep the floppy and the wand with you. Third, some
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stones look alike but don't behave alike.
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@item #14: Lasers 101
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Push two of the mirrors to the top and one to the bottom. By moving the
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mirrors around and by aiming carefully you can hit all of the Oxyd
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stones with a laser beam.
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@item #15: The Grim Reaper
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Ever thought of turning your mouse upside-down???
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@item #16: Knock Knock
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Listen carefully, look carefully.
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@item #22: Way to Go
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One of the blue dots behaves differently. Make use of that fact!
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@item #29: Push Your Way
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Find the magic wand first!
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@item #30: Meditation
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Align the marbles horizontally.
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@item #32: Space Pirates
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This one is tricky. Ignite a bomb near the wooden stones.
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@item #37: Twelve doors
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You opened all the doors and still can't get through? You must have
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@item #48: Tricks and Traps
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Cannot get out of the first screen? Focus on the small blinking dot
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first. Cannot find the last Oxyd stone? Activate three of the large
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blinking dots on the first screen and the small one on the third screen.
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@item #56: Hidden Treasure
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Make sure you always have access to the room with the switch on the
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floor. Then search for the second screen with the ``hidden
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@item #71: Light Switches
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Jam the lasers in case you're not fast enough.
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@item #81: Flood Gates
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Carefully flooding certain areas can be useful. Do not leave the first
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room without activating the lower switch.
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@item #87: Walk the Plank
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Not enough of a pirate to master the this level? There is a
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different, easier route.
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@item #96: Where Am I?
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Make use of the wooden stones if you have lost your way.
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@item #110: Draggers
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Admitted, this level is evil. There's a seed hidden near your starting
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Enter the bank through cracks in the floor.
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@item #115: Laser Magic
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It's time to learn a few things about object transformations.
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@item #135: Control Panel
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The message in the left room tells you how to arrange the blocks on the
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first rows of triggers. From there, use the color codes indicated in
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@item #137: Question of Speed
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Or rather: Question of Seed???
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@node Enigma 2 Hints, , Enigma Hints, Spoilers
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@section Hints for `Enigma 2'
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Put the first shogun stone in the upper left corner, and the second
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one @emph{above} the rightmost shogun dot.
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@item #33: Welcome to the Machine
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The message near the upper-right corner contains an important hint.
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@item #34: Use the PIN
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... or use your favourite encyclopedia if you don't recall the right
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@item #62: TNT Shortage?
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It's easier with a hammer!
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@item #68: What's the Problem?
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Decoys all over the place... this is a meditation landscape.
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@node Credits, , Spoilers, Top
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* Utilized Software::
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@node Main developers, Special Thanks, Credits, Credits
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@section Main developers
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@item Siegfried Fennig
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Level design, graphics
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@item Martin Hawlisch
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Level design, graphics, programming
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Main developer, graphics, documentation
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Level design, programming
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@item Sven Siggelkow
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Level design and special Oxyd expertise
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Programming, level design
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@node Special Thanks, Contributors, Main developers, Credits
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@section Special Thanks
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@item Johannes Fortmann
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Mac OS X port, some programming, graphics
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@item Dustin Norlander
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Designer of the ``Dustismo'' font
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@item Jeremy Sawicki
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Oxyd file format reverse engineering, Oxydlib
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@item Erich Schubert
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@item Meinolf Schneider
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Original game idea--@emph{Thanks}!
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Menu music (@emph{Pentagonal Dreams})
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@item David W. Skinner
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Many Sokoban levels from
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@uref{http://users.bentonrea.com/~sasquatch/sokoban}
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@node Contributors, Utilized Software, Special Thanks, Credits
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@section Contributors
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For various smaller contributions, thanks go to:
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Samuel El�as Mart�nez �lvarez (Spanish translation)
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Stephanie Fabian (Invaluable bug reports)
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Edwin Groothuis (FreeBSD port)
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Immanuel Herrmann (Level design)
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Samuele Kaplun (Italian translation)
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Manuel K�nig (Level design, bug reports)
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Jens-Christian Korth (Level design)
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Edward Leuf (Feedback, bug reports)
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Ingo van Lil (Feedback, bug reports)
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Frank van der Loo (Dutch translation)
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Achim Settelmeier (RPM specfile)
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Jon Sneyers (Level design)
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Peter Santo (Level design)
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Andrzej Szombierski (Level design)
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Michael Terry (.desktop file)
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Ray Wick (Level design)
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Joe Wreschnig (Manual page)
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@node Utilized Software, , Contributors, Credits
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@section Utilized Software
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@uref{http://www.libsdl.org/}
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@uref{http://www.libsdl.org/SDL_image}
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@uref{http://www.libsdl.org/SDL_mixer}
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@uref{http://www.lua.org}
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@uref{http://www.sawicki.us/oxyd}
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@uref{http://www.tecgraf.puc-rio.br/~celes/tolua}
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@uref{http://zipios.sourceforge.net}
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