Indiana Jones and the Robots from Pluto Screenshots Instructions Download Install Instructions Recent analysis of the Sepher Zohar has revealed a plot to destroy the world! Kabbalistic scholars have discovered a 2000 year old cult which has throughout history been responsible for the mistranslation of the following passage: "Before 100 seasons have passed, there will be born a Messiah to this world. This Messiah shall be a false Messiah, obscuring the mechanical glory of our Great Benefactor, who art the Great Technician of the Universe, and whose flesh and blood are the very single and not-single manifestations that create and destroy worlds. And it shall be One Thousand Nine Hundred and Thirty Eight years before the great mechanisms shall swarm down from the Beard of Microprosopus and beset our world with fire upon fire. And the supports of this world shall be snapped away, so great shall be the wrath of the Great One. And these mechanisms shall have their basis in the Great War Trumpet!" Kabbalistic analysis of the phrase, "Great War Trumpet" has revealed that the "mechanisms" (believed to be robots created by an advanced intelligence) have their base on the newly discovered planet of Pluto! Furthermore, the text seems to indicate that these robots are scheduled to attack the Earth sometime this year. This is, of course, all very sensitive information. If news of this was leaked to the public it would lead to widespread panic. The task of preventing the deadly robot invasion has been put into your hands. Further analysis of the text reveals that the robots can be destroyed forever by placing a Plutonic gold medallion which holds the very life force of the infernal machines within it on an ancient golden altar, believed to reside somewhere in the vicinity of the Parc Zoologique de Paris. This is where you must start your quest. Screenshots Instructions Use the arrow keys or the numpad keys to move around. To pick something up, touch it. You can carry 7 things at one time. Use the bracket keys ([ and ]) or the 'z' and 'x' keys to page back and forth through your inventory, the black dot indicates the item currently selected. Press the 'd' key to drop the currently selected item (if you drop an item it's gone forever). Press the space bar to use the currently selected item (for example, if the whip is your currently selected item, pressing Space will crack the whip). You start the game with 3 lives and no items. Given that this is supposed to emulate an atari 2600 game, you'll often find that you die in strange and unexplained ways. This is part of the 2600 experience. Just go with it, man. Anything strange and unexplained will eventually be expained in the solution (which I will be posting to this site incrementally over the next 2 months or so). There are a few things I will explain now, just to get them out of the way. Snakes - they kill you. Don't touch 'em. Go around them or kill them. Lava - that's the red stuff, that kills you too, but only if you get your feet in it (see screenshot above, wherein Indy is standing on yellow ground, but has his upper torso and head in the lava. You can do that, just don't get your feet in it). Sometimes you may encounter blinking red squares - this is a mysterious form of blinking lava (thought to have been created by the Plutonians using advanced robot techlology), you can run through it when it's blinked off, but if it comes back on and touches your feet it'll kill you. One thing to keep in mind: use everything everywhere. If you see a patch on the ground in some screen that looks different from the rest, it may be for a reason, use every item in your inventory while standing on it. It may not make sense, but do you remember the original "Raiders of the Lost Ark" 2600 game making sense? I thought not. That's what made it beautiful. One more hint (this one's so obscure that I'd better just tell you now): It has been uncovered that there exists a mysterious Plutonian Golden Sewing Machine. This machine is somehow related to an interdimensional warp gate leading from Earth to Pluto. Many North American Indian tribes knew of this gate and had built numerous holy items (which most Europeans take to be symbollic of various tribal spirits) based on visions of the mechanisms of the gate. Download Indy.ZIP (171kb) Installing and Running To install Indiana Jones and the Robots from Pluto, simply unzip the zipped file somewhere on your hard drive (let's pretend you unzipped it in c:\games\Indy\ and that you're all Windows users), get in a DOS box (or equivilent command-line tool) and go to the directory that you unzipped the file into, and type: java -cp [where you are now, say c:\games\Indy] games/people/People If you're running on a Mac, you can find some more info on running Java apps in a Macintosh here. If you're running Linux, then you're probably pretty goddamned smart and can figure it out yourself. To get the full effect, set your screen resolution to 800 X 600. If you can't get it to work, you can always try to run the applet release. But beware: it's buggy as hell and won't work with certain browsers. Java Help OK, this is a Java Application, so you have to do the big Java download. Windows users: Get it here (scroll down and find the 'continue' button). Find info on how to set up your environment on Windows 95/98/ME/XP here Linux users: Get it here. Find info on setting up your environment here. Mac users: You already have it! And what's more - you can't download it anywhere if you don't! One Last Note Hey - want to tell me how much my code sucks? I'll bet you do! This is an open source project, the .java files are all included in the zip download, so feel free to tell me how I could improve my code, send me your own modified version, or simply flame me for not following Sun coding standards. Drop me a line at bovineinversus@hotmail.com. Report any bugs you find to that address as well. back to games page back to bovineinversus