Blow Stuff Up

Erik Hogan.

Version 2011.01.

Controls

• Move: WASD, Cursor Keys, XBox 360 controller Left Thumbstick.
• Turn: Mouse, XBox 360 controller Right Thumbstick.
• Shoot machine gun: Left mouse click, XBox 360 controller Left Trigger.
• Shoot grenade launcher: Right mouse click, XBox 360 controller Right Trigger.
• Jump: Space bar, XBox 360 controller face or shoulder buttons.
• Pause: P, XBox 360 controller Start.
• Menu: Escape, XBox 360 controller Back.

How to play

• Destroy all cars, tanks, buildings and fighter planes before your time expires.
• Your time will increase with every car, tank, building or fighter plane you destroy.
• Your time will decrease every time you are hit by enemy fire.
• The key strategy to winning is to build up your time reserves by pulling off "building combos". For each building that collapses on top of another building, the amount of time gained doubles.
• The game is made significantly less difficult when easy mode is turned on. The time you start with and the time you get from destroying enemies is doubled, and the time you lose from enemy fire is halved.
• In Two Player mode (At least one XBox 360 controller required) each player has to manage their own timer. Whether you choose to compete, or co-operate with each other is entirely up to you.

Story

BattleSuit pilots of Peoples Socialist Democratic Republic: capitalists of La Isla Bonita must destroy make. All cars, buildings, tanks, planes must make destroy. Equal poverty means equal freedom. Go for great freedom and justice.

About

Blow Stuff Up was originally a short prototype developed entirely in a single week. The Earok 2011 collection version is a major overhaul of the original game, now featuring a far more kinetic, frantic feel (due to the countdown timer replacing the traditional health counter) and the two player mode.

Future versions of the game may feature terrain deformation, online multiplayer, more realistic looking building collapses, and may make an appearance on the XBox Live Indie channel.

Hope you enjoy.

- Erik Hogan

Credits

• Game programming and design: Erik Hogan.
• Mecha design: Anthony Lau.
• Portuguese translation: Guilherme Chirinéa.
• Danish translation: Christian "Chroelle" Toft (of CWF).
• German translation: Pater Alf.
• Special thanks: Kevin Hemmingway and Stephen Knightly.
• Misc resources from Golgotha, Mayang, The Games Creators et al.
• Game programmed in Blitz Basic 3D.

Licence

'Blow Stuff Up' Copyright (c) 2007-2011 Erik Hogan et al.

All Rights Reserved

Redistribution of the 'Blow Stuff Up' software or associated media, with or without modification, is permitted provided this readme file is included unmodified.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.