## The Game - Giana Family

Creating a new game
Joining an existing game
The game rules
Extras
Game keys
Giana family on slow PCs

Creating a new game

1. Start Giana.exe.
2. Select the screen resolution. (There are 4 available: 320x240, 400x300, 512x384 and 640x480 - all at 256 colors)
   Recommended resolution is 512x384 pixels, because this is the nearest to the original size. So many different configurations of DirectX and the Hardware are making too much trouble to define a clear resolution - try your own way, which is the best one for you.
3. Press Setup to change the controller setup. (You can use any joystick or gamepad which has been registered by windows, or the keyboard.)
4. Press Sound, if you want to change the sound/music options.
5. Select a level and the game rules.
6. Press Multiplayer Game. (Single player mode is only for testing purposes.)
7. Select the network protocol. (All windows-registered protocols are available.)
8. Insert a player name and choose the image, then insert a session name and press Create.
9. Begin playing or wait for other joining players.

Joining an existing game

1. Start Giana.exe.
2. Select the screen resolution. (There are 4 available: 320x240, 400x300, 512x384 and 640x480 - all at 256 colors)
   Recommended resolution is 512x384 pixels, because this is the nearest to the original size. So many different configurations of DirectX and the Hardware are making too much trouble to define a clear resolution - try your own way, which is the best one for you.
3. Press Setup to change the controller setup. (You can use any joystick or gamepad which has been registered by windows, or the keyboard.)
4. Press Sound, if you want to change the sound/music options.
5. Select a level and the game rules.
6. Press Multiplayer Game. (Single player mode is only for testing purposes.)
7. Select the network protocol. (All windows-registered protocols are available.)
8. Insert a player name and choose the image.
9. Press Update and wait a few seconds. Repeat until the desired session appeares.
10. Select the desired session and press Join. The connection process could take a long time, if the connection is bad.

The game rules
Standard Game
Each player starts with 100 health. Every diamond gives 10 health (maximum 200).
If your health drops below 0, you die. You also die by falling out of the game area or hitting a monster.
The player who causes the death gains one frag. If suicide, you loose one frag.
You can respawn by hitting the fire or special key/button.
You can damage other players by jumping onto them or hitting them with a shot.
A shot-extra can be used all the time, until you die or take another one.
Sudden Death
You have no health and die immediatly from every hostile source.
The player who causes the death gains one frag. If suicide, you loose one frag.
You can respawn by hitting the fire or special key/button.
You can kill other players by jumping onto them or hitting them with a shot.
While owning a shot-extra, your diamonds-total drops each second. If it drops below 0, you loose the extra.
If you ever should gain 100 diamonds in a single life, you become invulnerable for 20 seconds, but you'll loose your diamonds at this point.
Extras
Punker Ball
You can bash away some blocks by hitting them with the head from below. Some blocks are diamond sources, you can bash them to increase your diamonds/health, others hold extras or rocks.
Lightning
Shot with little bubbles.
Double Lightning
More damage than the lightning shot, but slower repeat count. The bubbles reflect on solid objects.
Strawberry
More damage than the double-lightning shot, but slower repeat count. The bubbles aim on the nearest enemy and chase him.
Clock
Hold down the special key/button for 4 seconds (you can't move). Then all other objects are frozen for the next 4 seconds.
Bomb
Hold down the special key/button for 4 seconds (you can't move). The bomb then inflicts damage to all enemies in range.
Waterdrop
Grants total protection of fires.
Lollypop
Grants invulnerability for 20 seconds, but ends invisibility.
Gelee Royal
Giana morphes into a killer bee, until touching any solid. Damages players by flying against them, but can be smashed from above. You can neither pick up anything, while a bee, nor use any weapons. Ends Invisibility.
Cloud
Grants invisibility for 30 seconds, but ends invulnerability.
Game Keys
ALT-K kills yourself, ALT-Q or ALT-X exits the game, ALT-D gives diamonds in single-player games and TAB shows the scores in multiplayer ones. The keys F1-F8 send the macros, defined in macros.txt.
Giana Family on Slow PCs
If the game crashes in multiplayers games, perhaps your PC is too slow.
Try the following :

- Turn off the music and sounds.
- Play a smaller map (with fewer objects).

Andreas Kahn