Welcome to Samurai Hoedown!! STORY ------------------------- As the seventeenth century dawns, Nippon is in turmoil. She is recovering from a series of internecine wars among the Samurai warriors of the feuding clans. The Tokugawa clan is gaining ascendency, to form what will be the great Edo shogunate, where the Way of the Samurai (Bushi-do) reaches its pinnacle. In the midst of this, two great warriors battle each other to the death to preserve all that is great and honourable. For, at stake is a way of life even greater than that of the Samurai itself - The Way of the Hoedown !! The two Samurai, whose names are known only to the Shinto Gods, seeking anonymity, for their cause is Great and the future of civilization itself depends on their quest, dawn the garb of those who stalk sliently in the Shadows of the Night - the nefarious Ninja. They fight on the Island, whose name shall never be mentioned, for on it has been spilt vile and evil blood. You are the Blue Ninja, the Samurai whose destinity it is to fight for the Hoedown. Your opponent is the deadly White Ninja, who so desparately wants to destroy all that is Good and Great. You must fight him and kill him 10 times, for only in that lay the Future of the World. En Garde ! DEFAULT KEYBOARD CONTROLS ------------------------- W -- move forward S -- move backward A -- move left D -- move right Space -- jump F -- fireball H -- heal P -- pause ESC -- quit Page Up -- player instantly dies Page Down -- opponent instantly dies Print Sc/n-- print a screenshot MOUSE CONTROLS ------------------------- Move the mouse to look around. ATTACKS ------------------------- Upper Right Attack Press and hold the left mouse button while dragging right. Lower Right Attack Press and hold the left mouse button while dragging lower-right. Upper Left Attack Press and hold the left mouse button while dragging left. Lower Left Attack Press and hold the left mouse button while dragging lower-left. Head Attack Press and hold the left mouse button while dragging down. Thrust Attack Press and hold the left mouse button while dragging up. BLOCKS ------------------------- Left Block Press and hold the right mouse button while dragging left. Right Block Press and hold the right mouse button while dragging right. KNOWN BUGS ------------------------- If an error pops up when when trying to start the game, try using DirectX instead of OpenGL (or vice versa). This is a bug with the Ogre library. For all fights after the first one, the water does not behave correctly. Attacking does not seem to work all the time. CREDITS ------------------------- The authors of Samurai Hoedown: Boonthanome Nouanesengsy -- lead programmer Youding Zhu -- peon Okan Irfanoglu -- peon Firdaus Janoos -- peon Brink -- peon