:::. m e l o d i e m a r s .:::. how to play .:::

	OBJECTIVE The Objective of this game is to become famous…Collect records and build up your SELF ESTEEM. Play DJ Battle offs with your networked opponents: "Digital Primate", "Baby Lemonade" (the queen of pop) and "Smoke De J". Try to hit them with your funky beats and knock them out of play temporarily to get more EGO points and win a record. Then try to get enough of a balance of Self Esteem and Ego points and keep enough records in your record box in play to be able to play in the Club. By playing successfully in the club you build up a following and get double FAME points… SUPERSTAR DJ STATUS IS JUST AROUND THE CORNER (or was it on the other side of that building.?)

		VISUAL CUES AND DISPLAY There are a number of simple visual cues to monitor your performance and register when you have been hit or knocked out of play or have undertaken an action such as the collecting of a record or firing of a record

	LED LIGHTS: at the top left hand corner of your screen there are five LED monitors showing your status in the game play TIME: Shows how many in-time beats you have successfully generated using theleft mouse button. For example, if you hit 4 beats on time the LED lights will increase, but if the 5th beat you hit is out of time you will see the LED revert to zero (0) and you will not be able to fire a record in until such time as you have some in-time beats clock up on this score. Additionally, the last record playing (Out of a total of 8 records at any one time) has the lowest number of in time beats associated to it, to fire your record in you must have a minimum of the same number of in-time beats clocked up in the TIME score before you can fire your new record in. When tapping your left mouse button in time you will see the TIME LED's increase, if they are red this indicates that you still haven't clocked up enough in time beats to fire your record, when the LEDs turn to green it is the indication that you can now fire a record and lock it into the mix. FAME: starts out as green and goes towards red as you start to gain the lead you get some FAME points from getting records in the MIX but to rally bump up your fame points you must activate and play from the nightclub. You will notice also that there are some dynamic posters in the world and these will change to reflect who is currently in the lead. ESTEEM: Starts green and goes red when balanced with EGO. Your objective is to keep both EGO and Esteem points relatively balanced and then get into the Nightclub to increase your FAME points quicker. If your ESTEEM points get way higher than your EGO points you will not be able to activate the nightclub and accrue higher FAME points and you will have to knock people out of play to balance up. EGO: Starts green and goes red when balanced with ESTEEM. If your EGO points get way higher than your ESTEEM points then you will have to go out and collect more records and fire them into the mix to balance things up. MOJO: This is your health barometer, starts full and falls as you get hit by other peoples mixes. When it is at zero you are knocked out of play temporarily and you lose a record and SELF ESTEEM/FAME points. You will reappear within seconds in a totally different area of the world…

	SCORING SYSTEM Self Esteem: These are accrued by 1. collecting records and 2. successfully firing them into play. The more timing one has set up (tapping the left mouse button in time with the music) for the record before hitting the right mouse button and firing the record the longer the record stays in play, this is called a MIX. The more records one can get into play successfully (don't forget others are trying to do the same thing and only eight records can be played at a time) through getting higher timing MIXES the more SELF ESTEEM points can be earned. This can be done before even encountering any other players in the world *Ego:* These are accrued by successfully knocking your competition (other DJs) out of play and winning one of their records. In order to do this one must fire ones records whilst looking at your opponent (who will also be flying around the world collecting records). .......... This sends a series of semi transparent shapes (representing the "vibes" flying out of you) that fly outwards and towards the player whom you have in your sights - when another wannabe DJ is "in your sights" it means that a green circle appears around them and you can direct your vibes towards them. ....................One must aim towards the other player get the sights locked (by following the movements of the other player), have your timed record ready to play and hit the RIGHT mouse button to play it. Upon this happening you will see the shapes shooting out from you and towards the other player, the vibes that hit the other player lower his self esteem points and if you keep them in your sights and the record stays in play for long enough you will be able to cause them to lose self esteem points and respawn in another part of the world leaving you with more EGO points and a new record that you have just won off of them. Fame: Fame points are what you are really after. But these are harder to get and you must have a good balance between EGO and SELF ESTEEM before being able to really build up your fame points. These points are earned in two ways: ...........A. by getting a high enough scored MIX to put that record when fired into the top four records currently playing. When you get your record into the top four you get FAME points ...........B. When you have a good good balance between SELF ESTEEM and EGO you can enter the club which activates. The activation of the club shows that you can now earn DOUBLE FAME points for every top scoring MIX The secret is to keep the balance of SELF ESTEEM and EGO points on an even ratio in order to activate the club where you can quickly build up your fame.

		HOW TO PLAY !!! In the menu system choose your favourite character and press enter, wait a bit (it is still a demo..) and the game will load (see network game instructions for playing with others on a lan or via the internet) Each game is called a SET you must win enough FAME points to win the SET

	EXPLORING By using the controls described previously you can fly, walk , jump, pick up records and play 'em in time and against the other players, land by pointing yourself towards where you wanna go and flying towards it, don't be scared a knock on the head has no effect in this free flying world… Walk by simply moving forwards (W key) and moving your mouse left or right to turn. # sometimes you will get a bit stuck behind a pipe or something, just turn yourself around and jump out whilst moving forward # sometimes you will have your back too close to a wall and the camera view gets pushed up into your back causing you to seem stuck, just move the mouse up or down an d move forward away from the wall and things will get better. (It never does to be back up against the wall!!) Jump off the building and start flying by pressing your space bar whilst looking at where you wanna go and moving forward. Flying: Once you jump off you will start flying (you won't fall..) and you can fly in any direction using your mouse as a directional control

	COLLECTING RECORDS To collect records you must explore the world by flying jumping and walking around all the buildings and open areas. One can jump off a building and fly across to another one or one can simply walk around the building on an part of it and watch how the world rights itself to your position (u are the center of the universe after all !). when you see a rcord floating in the world or sticking out of the ground you simply fly or walk into it and you will have put it in you record box. A bunch of yellow semi transparent cubes break up around you to signify you have successfully picked up the record.

	SPINNING THOSE TUNES AND FIRING RECORDS (GETTING A MIX) To get a good mix you gotta first get a tune into play, don't worry about getting high timing and high SELF ESTEEM points at the moment, just click the LEFT MOUSE BUTTON until you see the top LED light go into the green, this means your selected record is in time and ready to play. Fire it by clicking the RIGHT MOUSE BUTTON. This will set your record playing (the other players will hear this too) and if it has a good enough beat you wil be able to time your next record better and get a higher MIX score by clicking the LEFT MOUSE BUTTON in time with the track playing . This also applies if someone else has got a record into play before you, try to listen to the timing of the music and try to stay in time with it when hitting the LEFT MOUSE BUTTON.

	If you go out of time then you will lose the mix score and you will have to try to build up a good MIX again. You cannot fire the record until your the LED is in the green, the higher into the green it goes the longer your record will play. The trick is to stop hitting the left mouse button before going out of time. This will result in you having a MIX score ready to be earned when you fire your record in. # you can hold onto this mix by not firing the record immediately and waiting whilst hiding or flying around until you see your opponent and by then firing with them in your sights

	FINDING YOUR OPPONENT You will see them flying around and when they are in range you will see the green circle around them. When you fire your record at them the previously mentioned semi transparent shapes will fly out towards them. If you turn away from the sighted opponent after successfully firing whils they were in your sights, you will notice the coloured shapes peeling off and turn towards the position of the other player, this is because they have been locked onto that player when you fired. You can use these as tracers to lead you back to this opponent if you lose sight of them. These "vibes tracers" will keep emanating from you as long as their corresponding record stays in play.

	GETTING TO PLAY IN THE CLUB AND GET QUAD FAME POINTS So you have started to build up both SELF ESTEEM points and EGO points and you will notice the corresponding LED display for each point moving higher. This is where you got to start thinking about how you play. If either the Self Esteem LED or the EGO LED goes into the red it means you gotta build up one or the other to bring it into the green again (shwing a healthy balance between the two)

	You are getting small fame points for successful record MIXes (getting your record in at the top of the list and playing for longest) but you really need to build up your fame points quicker. The only way to do that is by activating the nightclub and playing from within it on the DANCE FLOOR. ............And the only way you can activate the nightclub is by having an equal balance of Self Esteem and Ego. This is tricky because depending on how you play, one or the other of these two variables can get high quite quickly, thereby forcing you to play differently in order to balance them and activate the nighclub.

	For example by just collecting and playing records and keeping them in the top of the list you are building up SELF ESTEEM and some FAME, which is good if you can manage to avoid being hit by your opponents and losing SELF ESTEEM points. Or worse being knocked out of play (because you been hit too many times in succession by his consistent beat vibes) and losing a record and EGO points. ...............But it will take a while to build your FAME and so you need to accrue more EGO points by knocking others out of play (temporarily) and balancing up your variables.

	Now you can fly into the club with a nicely set up record, see the Disco lights come on (showing you that you have activated the dance floor) and fire your record and, if you successfully lock it in, get DOUBLE FAME POINTS. You have to try and stay there as long as possible building up DOUBLE FAME points before someone knocks you out of play (you are an easy target up there under all the lights !!!).

	The SET finishes when the first person gets to the highest possible number of FAME points. Play enough sets and rack up your highest scores… or work out other ways to play this game.. Prize of the " MOST EGOTISTICAL" award goes to those with highest EGO score regardless of FAME. Prize of "KEEPIN' IT REAL FROM DA UNDERGROUND" award goes to those with the highest SELF ESTEEM score regardlessof FAME

	BUT if you win the FAME points consistently then …*"YOU DA MAN !!!!"*