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ABOUT

MoonBattle is a simple game written in Java (version 1.3.1, should work with
version 1.2 or higher). It is a 2 or 3 player battle flying over a moonscape.
I wrote it in one day and it came out better than expected, which is why you
are able to get it.

INSTRUCTIONS

Main Menu:
	q	quit
	p	play
	2	switch to 2 player mode
	3	switch to 3 player mode
	
Game:
	p	pause/resume
	g	end game
	
Player 1 (Blue):
	a	Thrust Left
	d	Thrust Right
	s	Thrust up
	q	Fire Left
	e	Fire Right
	w	Hold to fire plasma burst

Player 2 (Green):
	NumPad 4	Thrust Left
	NumPad 6	Thrust Right
	NumPad 5	Thrust up
	NumPad 7	Fire Left
	NumPad 9	Fire Right
	NumPad 8	Hold to fire plasma burst

Player 3 (Red):
	j	Thrust Left
	l	Thrust Right
	k	Thrust up
	u	Fire Left
	o	Fire Right
	i	Hold to fire plasma burst

Pressing Fire fires lasers in the indicated direction. Holding fire will continue to fire.
If you hold down the plasma button, pressing fire will fire a plasma burst which is more
powerful but uses 20 fuel.

You have 100 fuel and 100 health. If you run out of fuel, you fall. If you run out of
health, you die and lose.

Crashing into the moon causes 25 damage (which could kill you) and you bounce up a bit.

During the game, you can pick up powerups for fuel or health. The amount is random 
(between 0 and 30, with a slight possibility of up to 50). PowerUps disapear if they
crash into the moon, are shot, or collide with each other. They bounce around on screen
otherwise until they are collected.

Players that drive off of one side wrap around to the other. Since Lasers and Plasma do
not wrap around, this can be an escape strategy.

LICENSE

This program is freeware, but not Public Domain. You can play or distribute this program
(preferrably as a full package) but you cannot charge for it or reverse engineer it.
(However, it isn't too difficult to write your own if you want to.) Also, you cannot
use it in any way disparaging to the author. This software is provided AS IS WITHOUT
ANY WARANTEE EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED INCLUDING MERCHANTABILITY OR SUITABILITY FOR A 
PURPOSE. The author is not liable for any damage that occurs from use of this software.

What do you think of that legal mumbo-jumbo :-) !  Just have fun!

