asylum(6)

💖 asylum(6) 💖

ok bestie, welcome to the games manual section, this is asylum(6) and it is a surreal platform shooting game and it is going to absolutely rearrange your brain chemistry (affectionately). ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

asylum — a surreal platform shooting game 🎀

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

asylum

that's it. that's the whole synopsis. no flags, no args, just vibes. slay. 💅

🧚 DESCRIPTION 🧚

so. young Sigmund? he has a few problems. a few. 😭 and to help him resolve his mental instability, you have to do the most main-character thing imaginable: enter the surreal world of his inner mind and shut down the malfunctioning brain cells. that's the mission. that's the gig. go be a hero inside somebody's head, bestie. 💜

👑 HOW TO PLAY 👑

okay so the whole game loop is lowkey simple, highkey iconic:

• shoot anything that moves 🔫
• collect anything that doesn't move 🍓
• and most importantly?? find your way to each of the eight pulsating neurons scattered throughout the immense map 🧠✨

for moving around you use Z, X, ; and ., and you press Enter to fire. or, if those keys are giving "not my vibe", just remap them to something you like better. your keyboard, your rules. 💅

🌀 teleporting (the one thing that actually needs explaining) 🌀

the one game feature that genuinely does merit explicit instruction is teleporting. in the first level ("Ego") the teleporters look like candelabra. 🕯️🕯️

to use a teleporter: stand in its centre and press "down" — and "down" is . with the default key settings. that's the whole trick. no cap. ✨

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

the game's web site: ⟨http://sdl-asylum.sourceforge.net/⟩ 🦋

💜 AUTHOR 💜

the original Acorn Archimedes game was created by Andy Southgate. this version is a port by Hugh Robinson. giving credit where credit is due, periodt. 👑

okay that's the whole page bestie, go shut down some brain cells 💀🧠

and that's a wrap on this asylum(6) from the Games Manual, dated 2008-10-26. mwah, go play, ily 🫶💖✨