Paragon Readme

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| | |  PARAGON  | | |
| | |    BY     | | |
| [-BIPOLARDESIGN+] |
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        v1.0
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Created by Mike Lasch
    @BipolarMike

Visuals by James Shasha
    @VideoJames_

Audio by Ex Machinae
    @Ex_Machinae

Soundtrack available:
music.exmachinae.com

Visit BipolarDesign at:
www.j.mp/BipolarDesign

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     DESCRIPTION
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Paragon is a game about bouncing balls around mazes,
collecting shiny things, and avoiding deadly spikes.

In Paragon, you have a ball which rides vertically
and horizontally on magnetic rails. If you press a
direction while the ball is on a rail, the ball jumps
off toward the direction you pressed. So if the ball
is moving up on a rail, and you press right, it will
move diagonally up-and-right! The ball then bounces
around the level until it reaches another rail, or
meets its end at the tip of a spike.

Paragon is an official remake of the DOS game of the
same name. It is based off of the 1994 version, which
came in Issue 93 of the SoftDisk PC Monthly floppy-disc
subscription in 1994 :)

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       SCORING
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The object in Paragon is to collect all of the prizes
scattered about each level, and do so without hesitating
and leaving the ball bouncing back and forth on a rail
for too long.

Each time the ball hits a wall while riding straight on
a rail, you gain one point. Though the score doesn't
start keeping track until AFTER you've made your first
move. Once you start moving, try to keep jumping off of
the rails, and don't hesitate!

The lower your score, the better your rating, and the
more stars you recieve for the level! The more stars
you get, the more extras you can unlock! You can view
the Silver Star score (Par), the Gold Star score (Pro),
and your current score in the pause menu.

Special flowers are added to each level as an extra
challenge after you beat it once. See if you can figure
out how to collect them all and unlock the final secret!

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      CONTROLS
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Gameplay:

You may use either your arrow keys or WASD, or you can
choose to click your mouse, or tap your touch screen.
If you choose to use mouse or touch control, the ball
will always attempt to jump off toward your pointer,
or the location you've tapped.

Misc:

- Backspace/ESC will pause or go back.
- Enter/Spacebar/Left Click will accept or proceed.
- Right Click will pause the game.
- Tapping or clicking the "pause" icon at the top left
  corner of the screen will pause the game.

Advanced:

- Pressing K+E+Y will show your arrow key presses (in
  case you'd like to showcase how to play the game in
  a video or otherwise) Please note that this only
  works with arrow keys, not WASD, mouse, or touch input.
- Holding your directional keys or left/right mouse
  buttons will speed up or pause the credits.
- Pressing a certain key combination while viewing a
  particular screen will do something special (and doing
  it again will cancel this out)

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      CONTACT
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Contact me with any questions, comments, hugs, bugs, etc:

@BipolarMike on Twitter

BipolarDesign@gmail.com