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« on: April 27, 2005, 07:14:58 AM »
for those that have imported the fantastic electroplankton and cant read jappense here is some of the basic commands for the plankton
If you've got Electroplankton you also have the excellent manual, which does a great job of communicating pictorially the various kinds of interaction each 'plankton supports. Study the pictures and play! Experiment!! Just in case you don't want to get fingerprints all over your copy, here are some of the interactions described in the manual: Tracy - Select a Tracy by touching it; draw a line & the Tracy will move along it - Tap the coloured dots at either end of a line to erase it - Hold Tracy at any point during a line to have them take a rest there - Use the D-Pad to change the speed with which the Tracy move - Use Select to stop all moving Tracy Hanenbow - Change the angle of the pod that shoots the Hanenbow - Change the angles of the leaves Hanenbow bounce on - Press A to toggle viewing all current angles - Use the D-Pad to change the rate at which Hanenbow emerge - Use Select to choose a different tree to play with Luminaria - Tap the Luminaria to start them moving - Tap the arrows to change their direction - Touch and hold an arrow to set it spinning - Use the D-Pad to change the direction of many arrows at a time - Use Select to choose a different starting grid & stop the Luminaria Sun-Animalcule - Tap the screen to create Sun-Animalcule - Touch & hold Sun-Animalcule, you can drag them to different locations - Tap Sun-Animalcule to make them disappear - Use the D-Pad to change the time of day - Use Select to disappear all the Sun-Animalcule Rec-Rec - Tap a Rec-Rec to have it listen on it's next 'pass' - Expose listening Rec-Rec to sounds; Rec-Rec repeat what they've heard - Use the D-Pad to change the speed the Rec-Rec travel - Use the D-Pad to change the background music - Use Select to have all the Rec-Rec regurgitate what they've heard Nanocarp - Tap the water, the resulting ripples will affect nearby Nanocarp - Use the D-Pad to create pulses that will affect all Nanocarp - Clap to them, blow on them, sing to them; they're always listening! - Although they listen, Nanocarp can't repeat the things they hear - You can just let them wander around... Lumiloop - Spin the Lumiloop by drawing circles on them; try both directions - Stop the Lumiloop by holding the stylus on them - Use Select to change their environment Marine-Snow - Touch them! - Use Select to choose their initial configuration Beatnes - Tap the Beatnes; tap their heads, their tails & their spines - Use the D-Pad to change their speed of everything happening - Use Select to choose their background music & voices Volvoice - Tap the Volvoice (or A) to have it listen, tap it again to have it stop - Expose the listening Volvoice to sounds; Volvoice repeat what they've heard - Select a shape to change the way the Volvoice says what it heard - Tap the Volvoice's antenna bulb to make it forget what it heard - You can change the way the Volvoice says things whilst it's talking