Kwiks

A freeware-game by DIGITAL Nightmares!

This game requires a PC with Windows 95 and Direct X 3.0 or better ... At least a videocard with HiColor-SVGA and for sound and music a soundcard are needed.

What is Kwiks?

Kwiks is a clone of the old 8-bit classic game QIX. In the game the screen has to be filled as good as possible with a picture. This is done by marking areas on the screen which then (if there is no monster in them) are filled with the picure. When the player has filled 75% of the playfield the level is completed. With a white line the fill-area is marked, blue lines are old, filled white lines. The player must not cross his own white lines and these must not be hit by monsters, too! Blue lines and filled areas may be passed. Different types of monsters exist, they behave different and so must be handled special. Hitting a monster is deadly! If you get hit and there are lives left, you continue your game in the middle top of the screen. Every 5000 points you get a new life.

A few Tips:

- Catch monsters in small areas.
- Cut bigger free areas in smaller pieces.
- But fill big areas to get much more points!
- Run early to catch a monster, a good time is when it passes you.
- Watch all monsters and try to calculate its further way on the screen ...

The Game:

After the title-screen the main-menu appears. There you can choose START GAME with the cursorkeys and confirm with SPACE or RETURN/ENTER. In the game you see the filled area in percent, your level, your points and your lifes in the information bar. Beneath this you have the playfield. Your marker is blinking white, monsters are blinking in different colors.

If the game is not fast enough on a slow computer you can increase the graphics speed with the key F2. If this still is not enough speed, please toggle the music off with F8.

The Control:

Movement | Cursorkeys
Help | F1
Graphics faster/slower | F2
Music on/off | F8
Sound on/off | F9
Screenshot | F11
Quit | ESC

Zoom (in picture-viewer) | +/-
Scrolling (in picture-viewer) | Cursorkeys

Have fun!

Please visit our internet-homepage and have a look at our other free- and shareware-games ...
http://www.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de/~miha/

Visit the site of Sharedirect, too. There you more games from us ...
http://www.sharedirect.com

Kwiks is freeware, but if you want to redistribute it on CD or any other medium you have to get a permission (for example via email) from:
Michael Haar (miha@sharedirect.com)
Am Schützenholz 29
29643 Neuenkirchen
Germany
and the game and all files must not be changed.

Known bugs: No music with Soundblaster.

Advertisement-screens in the game are in german language - please visit http://www.sharedirect.com for information about the games! All in-game text is in english. All our other (Shareware-)games are complete with english texts.