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Firstly, the robots have not been blessed with a great deal of intelligence,
and will be destroyed if they crash into each other, or any other debris
which has been left around from previous collisions.
Secondly, if you do find yourself in a tight spot, you have the ability
to teleport randomly to another spot on the screen.
And, if supported in the game configuration you have chosen, you can
push the junkheaps around to form barricades to protect you. Also if you are
daring enough you can Splat! the robots by pushing junkheaps on top of them
for an additional bonus.
Unfortunately, randomly teleporting means that there is a chance that
you might end up being right next to a robot so they can kill you when
they make their move. All is not lost however, as you can have a number of
safe teleports which will place you out of immediate danger. You can earn
more free teleports as you go along, how you gain them depends on the
chosen game, but typically you get one for each robot that is
destroyed while you are 'waiting', up to a maximum of 10. If you don't
want to waste your saved up safe teleports you can choose to randomly
teleport if you think it's safe enough.
If you press the 'Wait' key (see below) you will no longer be able to move until either all of the robots, which still move towards you, are gone or you are killed. Doing this may earn you extra safe teleports as described above.
If you manage to reach the point where more than half of the screen is
occupied by robots, the number of robots will be reset to the starting amount,
allowing you to continue.
3. Keys
There are three sets of predefined keys for controlling your player -
Up Left: Y Up: K Up Right: U
Left: H Stand Still: . or Space Right: L
Down Left: B Down: J Down Right: N
Teleport: T
Randomly Teleport: R
Wait: W
Up Left: Q Up: W Up Right: E
Left: A Stand Still: S Right: D
Down Left: Z Down: X Down Right: C
Teleport: T
Randomly Teleport: R
Wait: Return
Up Left: 7 Up: 8 Up Right: 9
Left: 4 Stand Still: 5 Right: 6
Down Left: 1 Down: 2 Down Right: 3
Teleport: +
Randomly Teleport: -
Wait: Enter
You can also define your own game configurations by creating extra '.cfg' files which are stored in the $PREFIX/share/gnobots2 directory.
If you have any suggestions or discover any BUGS you can e-mail the
author at m.rae@inpharmatica.co.uk