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VortexPSP by Mach-one [web]

VortexPSP
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The Vortex is a space-skill game. Your viewpoint is above your spaceship. Your mission is to find the rescue
pod, and return it to the central teleport, before the timer reaches zero. You can pick up some extra time
and extra points along Your way.
After You returned the pod successfully, You have the same mission, but now a different level. Each level
contains colorful obstacles, avoid to collide with them.

You will "die" in the following three cases:

1. You hit the obstacles
2. Your time's up
3. You hit the central teleport without the rescue pod picked up

The control of the ship is a very enjoyable one, if You ever played the Stardust on Amiga, You know it 
well... 
You can rotate the ship clockwise and counter-clockwise with the left/right directional buttons. With the
cross button you operates the engine. The ship will move to the direction pointed by its nose. If You
want to change the direction of the movement, it's not enough to rotate the ship to that heading, You have to operate the engine too.

We made the game levelpack based, to reach a longer "lifetime". Each of these packs contain 10 different 
levels. Every level contains one rescue pod and 3-3 extra times/points, but we used a little cheat to
make the levels more difficult. Every level-data contains 4 different places for the rescue pod, 8
different places for the extra times and 8 for the extra points. At every start we calculate
random numbers to select one of these positions for the pod, and 3-3 different positions for the
extras. :)

Additional levelpacks will be downloadable from our site soon !
We had to make a level-editor on PPC Amiga, to make the leveldesign easier and faster, so we
hope, we can create ca. 8 - 10 levelpacks.
One levelpack is ca. 10 kbytes, and after You downloaded it, You have to copy it to the required 
folder of Your Memory Stick. You can select the desired pack at every new gamestart with the  
pack selector.

The highscores will be saved to the Memory Stick ofcoz...

To play the songs (Amiga modules) we used the Mikmod Player.


How to install the game to the MemoryStick:
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After the unzip, copy the 2 dir to the /PSP/GAME dir of YOur MemoryStick.

The game can be started on any PSP with firmware 1.5 .
If it will be possible to start homebrew programs on the higher firmware versions, we will upload
the modified versions of VortexPSP.

BONUS LEVEL PACK!!!
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If You want a UNIQUE level pack, please complete our little questionnaire
at: http://www.mach-one.hu/questionnaire.php , and we will send
one (which won't be collectable in other way) via e-mail. To make it
clear, we will NOT use Your e-mail address to send
spams etc.. and we will NOT give it to a 3rd person.

In case of any questions/reports please feel free to write us a mail to: info@mach-one.hu
Additional levelpacks will be downloadable soon.
Visit our website at www.mach-one.hu to get the latest level-packs, and other useful programs/infos.