MacSokoban 2.1 This is an Arcade Game Mactivity's CD-ROM nr 10 advice: This application did run on a b/w 68030 processor under System 7.1. It was also tested on a big ColorScreen of a PowerMacintosh running System 7.1.2. The game was also tested on a Quadra with 68040 processor and a 13 inch Color Screen and System 7.1 by Mactivity. The word "sokoban" is japanese, and means "warehouse keeper". The original Sokoban was the winner of a computer game contest held in Japan in the early 80's. If you know who the original programmer was, please enlighten me. The game became a commercial game on NEC computers. (Info from Takeshi Miyazaki.) Much later, someone made a version for Unix (Curses). This game was poorly documented, which is why I didn't know anything at all about the original game when I released version 1.0 of MacSokoban. When you start the game the first time, the first thing you must do is to create an entry in the Players menu. As delivered, one player is defined, namely myself. Feel free to remove me; it just remains as an example. The object of the game is to, for each level, rearrange a set of "gold bags" (should perhaps have been cardboard boxes) to certain positions. When you have solved all levels, you have won the game. There is another kind of score kept, but don't bother about it for now. You move the man with the mouse or the keyboard. Keyboard movement is done with arrow keys, "2468" or "hjkl". Clicking with the mouse in a neighbor square has the same effect as pressing keys. The man can move the gold bags by pushing them in front of himself, one at a time. This of course means that if you push it into a corner, it is stuck. If you get stuck (which will happen frequently) you can restart the level from the Edit menu. You can also save a position with "Copy" and restore it with "Paste". "Undo" is supported for the last move. If you press the control key while pressing a key or clicking, the man will move as far as possible in the chosen direction. If you press shift instead, he will move and push as far as possible. If you click the mouse somewhere but the closest positions, the path-finding algorithm is activated, and the man will go to that position if there is an open path there. When moving using the mouse, you can click-and-drag to make several moves in a sequence by holding the mouse button down while moving. The object of the game is to solve all levels. Does this mean that the game is over when you have reached level 50 (or level 35 in the "Extra" file)? Not necessarily. The game keeps records of the lowest number of moves and pushes used for each level, so you can try to find better ways to solve levels. The "Fiddle" menu is intended for fiddling around with theese things. Choose "Show statistics window" to see the number of moves you are using when playing. If you get a new record, it will be indicated in the Statistics window.Please note that this "optimizing" should not be considered the main point with the game. Solve first, optimize later if you think that is fun. Back to the Computer Games Index