Short: Storonskij's Awesome Tron-Artillery game
Author: Pete W Storonskij (pws@swine.unl.edu)
Uploader: Pete W Storonskij (pws swine unl edu)
Type: game/actio
Version: 1
Architecture: m68k-amigaos
Release Date: Feb. 4, 1997
PWS Copyright: © 1997, Pete W Storonskij, World Rights Reserved.
******* OFFICIAL DESCRIPTION OF CEPHALO-TRON *******
CephaloTron: FULL VERSION is Pete W Storonskij's combined Tron-Artillery game. You play Light Cycles, but with Ultimate Weapons! It's a Fast Paced action game with brilliant GENETIC AI algorithms.
It has the WeaponForge stacking system that lets you stack up to 12 warheads in one Torpedeux. This makes for an infinite combination of rediculously overpowered weapon designs. You can construct
your Torpedeux exactly to your taste with 233 warheads of 33 types to choose from. All 30 players have 5 personal custom weapons, automatic shields, and 3 gears as standard. You can make Lava Storm
s, Airstrikes, and Trillions-upon-Trillions of other weapons.
You have the ultimate power of having every weapon ever designed in a video game at your disposal in this game.
*** STRATOPLEX: 3D TRON IS OUT NOW! aminet/game/2play ***
*************** CEPHALO-TRON ***************
Copyright © 1997 by
Pete W Storonskij
WORLD RIGHTS RESERVED
CEPHALOTRON IS FREEWARE!
pws@swine.unl.edu
Pete W Storonskij
200 A st.
Lincoln, NE. 68502
USA
This is the Freely Distriburible FULL VERSION of CephaloTron, so go ahead and have fun (There are still rules that you have to follow though :)
I, Pete W Storonskij, retain all copyrights, and all rights, etc.
***** MORE INFO ON STRATOPLEX: 3D TRON *****
Stratoplex: 3D Tron is out now! A 2 disk game for $5 (US)!
Get Stratoplex off the Aminet now, in the game/2play directory. Stratoplex has a split screen 3D landscape view, so either 1 or 2 humans can compete with a total of 64 players.
I made CephaloTron to advertise my other game, STRATOPLEX: 3D TRON, LIGHTNING FURY. 3D TRON has 7 genres in it: 3D CYCLES, 3D ASTEROIDS, 3D TANKS, 3D MCP CONE, STRATEGEMA, Weapon Modulation, and Shi
eld Configuration sequences. You have never before played the sequal to the movie TRON, and now you have the chance to play it!
Stratoplex: 3D Tron can be found on Aminet, in game/2play. I put Stratoplex there because it has a split screen view, but you only need one human (the 64 computer players fill in the rest).
There are also several Toaster quality pictures in Stratoplex: 3D Tron, so you will like to take a look at them.
Stratoplex is the only game that is more a SEQUAL to the Movie Tron itself! Not just a conversion of the Light Cycle Sequence in the Arcade Game, as all the rest are.
******* OTHER FEATURES OF CEPHALOTRON *******
CephaloTron has many features other than it's WeaponForge Shipyards, that lets you design just about any weapon that ever existed in a video game. All 30 players get 5 different weapons. You can us
e the function keys to switch weapons, allowing player 1 to have 5 weapons armed by the left half of the function keys, and player 2 to have 5 different weapons, armed with the second set of function
keys! All weapons are launched with the fire button of that player.
There are 32 Fully configurable sounds. You can connect any sound to any weapon detonation, so you have ultimate control over how your weapons sound.
The outer walls of the playing field can have 3 different effects on players when they intersect it: Destruction, Wrap, or Teleport.
The trails vanish when a player dies. It's really better than the other way because it opens up territory to move in. This will make players plot against each other just for free space to move arou
nd in.
There is a spinning logo effect to start off each round. I was playing with an animated line routine, and this came up, so I put it in for effect. It reminds me of Stratoplex's "Far Wall Sweep".
You can select the pattern of starting positions for the players too (including random scattering of players).
All players get automatic shields.
All players independently get 3 gears of motion. Push the joystick toward the direction of motion to speed up, and pull back to slow down.
The options can be saved to disk, including all 150 weapon designs. Random weapons can be created in a second. There's even an option to instantly randomize all of the weapons at once.
*** CEPHALOTRON'S KEYBOARD FUNCTIONS ***
CephaloTron is a joystick powered game, but there are a few keyboard directives as well.
KEYBOARD FUNCTIONS DURING PLAY
F1-F5 control player 1's weapons arming mechanism.
F6-F10 control player 2's weapons arming mechanism.
ESC brings you back to the Main Control Panel.
SPACE ends the current round and sets up the next if so.
KEYBOARD FUNCTIONS IN THE CONTROL PANEL
SPACE adjusts the weapon construction fields.
******* STRATOPLEX: 3D TRON - LIGHTNING FURY *******
Stratoplex: 3D Tron is my previous release, and also my flagship video game for my games armada (or maybe CephaloTron is my new flagship game).
Stratoplex has 3D LightCycles, 3D MCP Cone, 3D Mazes, 3D Asteroids, Strategema, Weapon Modulation, and Shield Configuration sequences. Tornadeux Drones, Lightning, Thunder, and Fog augment the 3D fi
rst person landscape view, letting you experience liquid velocity first hand. The far wall can be seen, as well as a compass, letting you gauge where you are in the playing field. You have a radar
unit to see the enemy drones' locations. Two humans can play at once, and 64 simultaneous players (mostly computer) can play. Automatic shields give you 10 chances to plow head-long into a wall and
survive. There is a Stratoplex artificial planet game mission, or practice each sequence as often as you like. There are several Toaster Quality images to view at different points in the game, 4 e
nemy drone types, and 7 secondary target types, like Holo-Consoles and Stratite Crystals, to destroy. You can even slow down enemy drones by destroying those consoles.
***** AWESOME GAMES BY PETE W STORONSKIJ *****
INCINERATOR game/shoot
SNOWFORT game/misc
CASTLE INCINERATOR PWS members only!
CHECKERS CONQUEST game/board
MANGLED FENDERS game/misc
CHECKERS CONQUEST 2 game/puzzle
CONUNDRUM game/puzzle
MANGLED FENDERS: ARMORED COMBAT EDITION game/misc
CONUNDRUM 2 game/puzzle
STRATOPLEX: 3D TRON; 2 Disk Game game/2play
And Now: CEPHALOTRON game/actio
SPLATTERPAINT (PAINT PROGRAM)
MANGLED FENDERS: VEHICLE GRAPHICS SETS
* OTHER DEVELOPMENTS IN THE WORKS: *
TORNADEUX PAINT
LIQUID THUNDER SOUND CREATOR
ORIGINAL SOUND DISKS
A lot of the sounds in CephaloTron and Stratoplex were created in my Preliminary version of Liquid Thunder Sound Creator.
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CephaloTron is the first ever Tron game with an infinite arsenal of fully configurable and customizable ultimate weapons. I invented the combined TRON-ARTILLERY genre!