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                            BELLRINGER III

                    A 16K game for the Commodore 64
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GAME OBJECTIVE

You are the Bellringer, whose mission is to find your way through
various castles, and collect as many bags of gold as possible on your
way. You will be awarded 750 pts for each bag collected.

Avoid the evil knights and other bad guys who guard the castle. Your
health will decrease when you get too close to them, or if you are
hit by arrows or other objects which they use to attack you (and this
actually includes boiling hot water!)

If you find a small, yellow box in one of the castles, you should
pick it up to refresh your health.

The game will end when you run out of health, or if you should be
so unlucky to fall or jump into the fire at the end of a castle.

You may kill enemies by using the fire button to throw "magic" at
them. Please note that your supply of "magic" is limited, but you
may find something in a castle which will increase your supply
again...

There are eight bells at the end of each castle, and you need to
ring four of them in the correct order. All bells (except one of them)
will lower a wall and raise another, or extend a bridge part and
retract another, when you pull their rope. You need to be positioned
directly below a bell and then jump straight up in order to pull a
rope. When both walls are lowered and both bridge parts are
extended, you may exit the castle to the right.

You will be awarded a bonus which depends on how many bells you
had to ring be able to exit the castle. The bonus will be at least
1000 pts.
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GAME CONTROLS

Use a joystick in port two:

    Left      Move left
    Right     Move right
    Up        Climp up ladder or jump
    Down      Climb down ladder
    Fire      Throw magic
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CREDITS

Game design, programming and graphics by Geir Straume.
Music and sound effects by Sean Connolly.

This game was submitted to the "C64 16KB Cartridge Game Development
Competition 2013", organized by RGCD (http://www.rgcd.co.uk/).


Copyright (C) 2013 Geir Straume and Sean Connolly
