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Table of Contents

1. ..........................The Game
2. .............The Rules of the Game
3. .....................The Main Menu
3.1 .....................Start Game
3.2 ..................Network Match
3.2.1 .........Host Settings Menu
3.2.2 ............Client Settings
3.3 .................The Statistics
3.4 ..............The Settings Menu
4. .....Changing the Background Image
5. .........................Juristics
1. The Game
Blobby Volley is an arcade game in which you take out a volleyball match with
extraterrestrian jelly babies (!)
System requirements:
PC with Windows 95 or higher, Pentium / 200 MHz or higher, a minimum of 16 MB
Ram, a fast graphics card, 1 MB hard disk space. To be able to play in a LAN, yo
u must have TCP/IP protocol installed. (this is normally the case)
2. The Rules of the Game
In this game, the normal volleyball rules are taken into application. One play
er has the service and gets one point everytimes the opponent makes a mistake. I
f the player having the service makes a mistake, he loses his service to his opp
onent, and so the latter can get points.
A mistake is when the ball touches the ground of the court or touching the bal
l four times.
The game ends, when at least one of the players has 15 or more points and the
difference between the players' scores is 2 or more. The player who has more poi
nts, wins the match.
The only real differeneces to the real world volleyball are that there is only
one player per "team" who can touch the ball more than once and that the player
having the service is allowed to touch the ball more than once.
3. The Main Menu
Start Game
Network Match
Statistics
Settings
Francais
Quit

starts the game


opens the network settings menu
shows the statistics screen
opens the settings menu
switches the language to French
exits the program

3.1 Start Game


Clicking this menu option starts a new single or multiplayer game on the same
computer. The settings applied here have to be set in the settings menu. You can
end a game by pressing ESC (followed by a J or Y).
3.2 Network Match

Here you can setup a match in a local network. On the following screen, you ha
ve to chose between HOST A GAME and JOIN A GAME. To create a game, click on HOST
A GAME, to search for and join an existing game, click on JOIN A GAME.
Annotation: You are also able to play through the internet, but in practice, t
his will normally be too slow. In this case, the guest player will not be able t
o control his blobby properly.
3.2.1 Host Settings Menu
Here you can set the name of the game. This appears on the guest's session lis
t. At the point CONTROL, you can set, if you want to play with the mouse or with
the keyboard. The host always gets the keys and color you specified for player
one in the settings menu.
START HOSTING starts the game. The program waits for a guest to log in.
3.2.2 Client Settings
Just between HOST-IP, you can specify the IP-Adress where you want to look fo
r games. This is only neccesary for non-lokal networks. If you put an empty stri
ng here, then the game searches in the subnet in which your computer resides.
The point CONTROL lets you choose between keyboard and mouse control. The clie
nt always gets the keys and color you specified for player two in the settings m
enu.
FIND SESSION makes the computer search (and possibly find) sessions. You then
are presented a list from which you can pick the game you want to join.
3.3 The Statistics
The statistics screen presents you some information about players which allow
to compare the abilities of two players. Here you can see the number of games pl
ayed (GMS), the number of games won (WON) and the score of every player. The sco
re is calculated from the points difference in all matches. The winner gets the
differences in addition to his previous score, the loser loses this difference f
rom his score. But nobody can have a negative score.
You can sort the table by a specified item (name,score,...) by clicking on the
corresponding column header.
3.4 The Settings Menu
Player 1 is the left player (always host) and player two is the right one (or
client, when playing a LAN game).
You can change the players' color by clicking on little blobby. Behind NAME yo
u can specify the players' names. These names are the names with which you are r
egistered in the statistics. Clicking CONTROL, you can switch the controlling de
vice you want to use. Here is also the place where you can say that a player sho
uld be controlled by the computer (3 different difficulties)
You can specify another keyboard layout.
4. Changing the Background Image
If you don't like the background image, you can paint your own one. This image
has to have a resoultion of 800x600 pixels and has to be a BMP-file called "bvb
g.bmp". This file must be located in the Blobby Volley folder.
Hint: The side-bar of the volleyball net is not painted by the program. It mus

t be present in the image at the proper position. It is 16 pixels wide and 323 p
ixels high and located in the middle of the picture.
5. Juristics
Blobby Volley is freeware. The copyright is owned by the authors Daniel Skoras
zewsky and Silvio Mummert. The archive "blobby.zip" is only allowed to be copied
in unmodified state. Especially selfmade background images can only be given aw
ay separately.
We wish you a lot of fun playing Blobby Volley
Daniel Skoraszewsky and Silvio Mummert

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