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= THE ATOMIC BUTCHER =
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!!DEMO VERSION!!

by 
Das Humankapital
www.dashumankapital.net

#include <shitty_ascii_art.h>

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#include <std_disclaimer.h>

   "I do not accept responsibility for any effects, adverse or otherwise, 
    that this program may have on you, your computer, your sanity, your dog, 
    and anything else that you can think of. Use it at your own risk."

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1. Introduction
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Welcome to Atomic Butcher. In this post-nuclear jump'n'run game, 
you play the role of a crazed mutant freak who is sent out from the bunker he lived in
in order to collect as much meat as possible. To do so, you have to kill everything in 
sight and collect the corpses; if you have collected enough, you may proceed to the next level.
If you think this is a stupid and unnecesarilly violent concept for a game, you are right and paid attention; 
congratulations, you now understand a lot about the current state of the computer games industry.

Oh, by the way, what you are playing currently is only a demo version. In the full version, which will
be freeware, you can expect to see the following:

* 6 more Levels
* 3 new weapons
* Dozens of new enemies for you to slaughter relentlessly!
* And some other stuff I forgot to mention

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2. The Story
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In the not so far future the world as we know it has been destroyed by a terrible atomic war. 
Civilization with all its glorious inventions such as Plasma-TVs and really big cars and all that was 
destroyed in the glimpse of an eye by the nuclear fire of a thousand suns. 
But what was the reason for the great war? Who cares.

The fact is that 95% of humanity was wiped out and the few survivors either managed to flee into
underground shelters or were hideously transformed by the radiation in complete defiance of the fact
that in reality you just die from radioactivity. 

The Atomic Butcher was one of the people who were able to save themselves in a shelter,
but still got a great dose of radiation before he managed to reach it and thus mutated.
After that, he became incredibly stupid, but his physical strength increased immensely and his hunger for
fresh meat was by far exceeding that of normal humans. 

Just as the other people in the shelter were about to gather to lynch him because he simply couldn't be
kept from eating other shelter-inhabitants it was noticed
by the leaders that the food reserves were becoming very sparse, and so they reconsidered and had a far
better idea: They sent him out on an epic quest for meat and...well... even more meat! 

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3. Instructions
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Controls:
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A/D             - Walk left and right
SPACE	        - Jump
1-7  	 	- Select current weapon
MOUSE		- Aim
LEFT MOUSE	- Shoot
E/Q/MOUSE WHEEL - Cycle through your weapons
I		- Inject drugs
P  		- Pause the game
F1 		- Help screen
+/-		- Increase/ Decrease Particle count in order to increase performance on older machines
ESC		- Return to main menu
F10		- Quit the game immediately
F12 		- Take screenshots

Main menu:
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In the main menu you can choose to either start a new game or load an old game; to select
menu items, use the arrow keys and Enter.
If you start a new game, you can select one of 5 Savegames; after every level your game will
be automatically saved in the savegame you select at the beginning. If you load a game, it
will continue at the beginning of the last level you played.

During the game:
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You control the Atomic Butcher with the keyboard and the mouse. With the keys A/D you can walk left
and right, regardless of the direction you are looking in. The mouse is used to aim; you will always aim
directly towards the crosshair. If you shot an organic enemy, then he will in most cases leave a corpse
that you can collect simply by walking over it;

Different enemies give you different amounts of meat, and
once you have enough meat (which is displayed at the status bar right of the third icon) you may leave the
level through the exit.

If however you collected MORE meat than the minimum for a level, the extra meat will be put into your meat
pool. After every level you will be informed about how much meat is in the pool; if this value exceeds
50 meat pieces, you can UPGRADE either your health or one of your weapons. Choose wisely, for you won't
find enough meat during the course of the game to upgrade everything!

In the levels, a plethora of hazards will wait for you: Enemys, Acid lakes, Spikes, Fire, Traps, that sort
of things. You will know them, when you see them; and always watch out for WARNING SIGNS!

If you want to use something ( Levers, Buttons, whatever ), just walk over it. There is no use-key.

HINT: Always read the messages that are displayed either in the middle of the screen or on the upper
left corner!

Weapons:

Urine        - The butcher's standard weapon. Small range and damage, but infinite ammo. Don't ask.
Grenades     - Will be thrown farther if you keep pressing the mouse button. Be careful; those dish out
               quite a lot of damage and if you release the button immediately, the grenade will just
	       be put on the ground before you and blow you up if your aren't careful.
Revolver     - Inflicts quite some damage and has a high range and very good accuracy, but a slow fire rate
   	       and needs reloading every 6 shots.
Shotgun      - The perfect close range - weapon. Brings your enemies great
               amounts of pain if you hit directly but sucks at longer distances. Has strong recoil, that
               you can use to jump higher if you're dextrous enough!
Flamethrower - Well, acutally, this is an even better close-range weapon than the shotgun, but you won't 
 	       find as much ammo and if you aren't careful, you are likely to set yourself on fire with it.
 	       Should that happen, you would be well advised to change your weapon immediately, otherwise
 	       your gas tank will explode.
Grenadelauncher - Shoots Proximity mines that explode on contact with enemies. Real fun, try it!
Assault Rifle - High fire rate, does lots of damage and looks nice. But shoot just short bursts with it,
                otherwise you won't be able to aim well; this weapon is very unaccurate.
                
Checkpoints:
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There is no way in Atomic Butcher to save during a level. The game saves automatically when you
finish a level, and that's it. However, there are a lot of checkpoints scattered throughout the levels
in the form of big floating skulls. If you collect one of them, you will reappear where the checkpoint was
once you die. Be careful when you collect them; it is possible that you save in s situation where you are
definitely going to die again after respawning (collecting a skull right before you fall on some spikes
etc. ), since you will always reappear where you collected the last checkpoint.
                
Armour:
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In Atomic Butcher, there is no way to refill your health during a level, so you're stuck with collecting
armour. Before your health decreases when you're hit, your armour will slowly fade away, so be careful to
always wear one! There are three types of armour: A light leather armour, a medium one  made of junk parts
and a strong one made from steel.

Drugs: 
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Sometimes you will find small syringes filled with a yellow liquid. This is a special drug, that will make
you stronger. Just try them and see what happens.



Now DAS HUMANKAPITAL wishes you lots of fun with ATOMIC BUTCHER!
