Super Fusion Manual
PC Version 1.0

Copyright (c) 2003 3DAGames
All Rights Reserved

Introduction:
Welcome to Super Fusion, a super explosive new puzzle game from 3DAGames. Build up areas of critical mass to trigger increasingly explosive chain reactions! You win the level when you vaporize everything on the board!

A critical mass is formed by making a number of pieces of the same colour touch each other (vertically or horizontally). The default critical mass number is 4 or more pieces touching each other, although you can alter this up to 15 pieces, which is a very challenging number to achieve. Once a critical mass is built, it will explode and vaporize itself.

Each colour of piece has a special 'Nuke' version of itself (a more square looking piece with a Nuke symbol on it). When the Nuke pieces are joined into critical masses they explode with more force, which vaporizes other pieces around them. Also, if a nuke explosion hits and tries to vaporize another nuke on the board, then that nuke will explode with even greater force. You can use this to form chain reactions of ever greater nuke explosions, which can vaporize everything on the board. Learning how to use nukes to trigger other nukes is one of the key aspects of the game.

If you fail to clear a level by running out of places to put new shapes, you have to forfeit the level by selecting End Game. You can always restart the level or experiment with the game settings before restarting the level or choose to play another level. Super Fusion has been designed to encourage customization and experimentation.

How to play:

The 4 main circle highlight areas are as follows:
(1) Bottom Left Hand Corner Pickup Point.
When a sphere containing a game shape (made out of various coloured pieces) stops in this corner, you can pick up the shape. Just move the mouse cursor over the sphere and shape and then pick it up by pressing the Left Mouse Button.

(2) Placing A Shape On The Game Board.
When the mouse cursor is holding a game shape, you can place it anywhere on the board, provided there are no pieces already on the board under any of the pieces within the shape you are holding. You place the shape on the board by pressing the Left Mouse Button. Please note, to help you see where you can place the shape you are holding, a "helper shadow" version of the shape appears on the board, but it only appears when and where the shape can be placed (i.e. when no coloured pieces are already on the board, underneath the shape you are holding).

Please note, the shape you are holding can be rotated and the game provides a choice between a number of ways to control the rotation. The main method to rotate the shape you are holding, is to roll the Mouse Wheel on your mouse. However, if your mouse does not have a wheel, or if you prefer, then you can rotate the shape by pressing the Right Mouse Button. (If your mouse has 3 buttons but no wheel, you can press the Centre Mouse Button to rotate the shape in the opposite direction to the way the Right Mouse Button rotates the shape). There are only 4 positions a shape can be rotated to, so give them a try. (By the way, if you have a mouse with a wheel, then you can also press the wheel to act like a Centre Mouse Button to make the shape rotate. Although it is easier to usually just rotate the mouse wheel, but if you wish, you can use just mouse presses to rotate the shape).

(3) Options Menu Button.
The Options menu button will show the in-game only options. The Options menu allows you to alter the Sound Volume and it allows you to choose which set of graphics you wish out of 4 possible piece sets. As well as allowing you to customize your game to the graphics you prefer, these different graphics piece sets have also been designed to help people who have trouble seeing the difference between various colours. In particular, the piece set with numbers on it has been designed to help people with various forms of colour blindness.

(4) End Game Menu Button.
Selecting this button will bring up a question message asking if you want to end the current game. If you choose the OK button, the current game will end and return you to the starting Main Menu. If you choose the CANCEL button, the message box will vanish and you will be able to continue playing the game.

Main Menu Buttons:
The Demo Mode Main Menu is different to the Full Game Main Menu. When you first download and start the game, it starts up in Demo Mode. To get access to all the extra features in the full game, you need to buy the Full Game. You can buy the Full Game at http://www.3dagames.com Once you have bought the game, you are emailed an unlock registration code, which you then enter into the game, and it unlocks and allows you to access all features in the Full Game.

The Demo Mode has the following Main Menu buttons
Get The Full Game Now!
This button opens up the standard Internet Explorer and automatically takes you to the 3DAGames web site (http://www.3dagames.com) so you can buy the Full Game.

Enter Your Registration Code
This button takes you to the "Enter Your Registration Code screen. Please see the section called Registered and Unregistered Information

Start Game (number)
In Demo Mode, the Start Button shows (in the brackets) how many free plays are available. Once you run out of free plays you need to buy the Full Game to continue playing the game. (Please note, in Demo Mode, the game defaults to playing only one level (level 10 from the Full Game to act as the Demo Mode level). The Full Game gives you 100 levels to play, plus many ways to customise all the levels!).

This Customize Your Game!
In the Demo mode, this button allows you to see all the customisations you can alter and play with, but you cannot save or use the alterations in Demo Mode. When you have bought the Full Game and entered your registration code, then you are able to alter all these features however you wish.

About
The About screen just shows some brief information about the game, for example, its version number and instructions about the controls.

Exit
This brings up an exit game question message box. If you choose the OK button the game will exit entirely. If you choose the CANCEL button, the message box vanishes. (Please note, you can also make this message box appear by pressing the Esc key on your keyboard when the Main Menu is showing. (When you are on the main in-game screen, the Esc key will bring up the in-game options menu).


When you have bought the Full Game and entered the registration code, this turns the Demo Game into the Full Game.
The Full Game has to following Main Menu buttons
Play our other games!
This button is a quick way to check the 3DAGames web site to see all our other games you can play for free! (All our games have Free Play demo versions for you to download) and this is also a usefull way to quickly see and play our newly released games! This button automatically brings up the Internet Explorer and takes you to http://www.3dagames.com

Start Game (Level number)
In the Full Game, the start button shows what level number you will start on. (You can alter the starting level number by selecting the Customizing Your Game button and then selecting the Choose Starting Level Button).

Customize Your Game!
In the Full Game, you can customize how the game plays. This can greatly increase your fun and provides you with many more challenging variations on the game. Please see the section called Customizing Your Game

About
The About screen just shows some brief information about the game, for example, its version number and instructions about the controls.

Exit
This brings up an exit game question message box. If you choose the OK button the game will exit entirely. If you choose the CANCEL button, the message box vanishes. (Please note, you can also make this message box appear by pressing the Esc key on your keyboard when the Main Menu is showing. (When you are on the main in-game screen, the Esc key will bring up the in-game options menu).

Customize Your Game:
Super Fusion has been designed to encourage customization and experimentation. This gives a lot more fun and provides many ways to vary the game. (You can even alter the game to suit everyone in your family). Customization and experimentation is actually intended to be part of the gameplay and can be altered to play very differently from its default starting setting.

Customizing Options available:
Critical Length:
The critical Length controls the number of pieces which need to be joined together to form a critical mass to cause them to explode. (Pieces can be joined vertically and horizontally). The default setting is 4 pieces. (Which means joining 4 or more pieces together, causes them to explode and vaporise). The Critical Length can be changed from 4 up to a maximum of 15. If its set to maximum, its a very challenging number of pieces to work out how to join them all together, especially if you also choose to play with many different colours at once. (If you are new to customising the game, its recommended that you start small so to speak, by choosing lower settings, as this is more fun for beginners).

Total Pieces:
This is the total number of different coloured pieces. The default is 4 colours. You can have up to 12 different colours which makes the game much more challenging.

Difficulty:
This controls the probability of nukes appearing. A nuke is more likely to appear on easier settings. The settings are as follows: Easiest, Easy, Normal, Tough, Hard, Crazy, ARGHHH! The more nukes that appear, the easier it is to build chain reactions to clear a level. Higher difficulty levels needs more skill to conserve nukes on the board until their numbers can be built up to wipe out sections of the board with big chain reactions. But at the same time, you need to work harder to avoid spreading out non-nukes to far from the nukes, so they are also vaporized in the nuke explosions.

Shape Complexity:
This controls the number and complexity of the shapes. Easier settings usually have shapes with fewer pieces and less complex arrangements of pieces. Higher settings have some very complex large shapes which are much more challenging to find suitable places to place the shapes on the board.

Volume:
The volume setting slider bar changes the volume instantly. (The volume can also be changed while in the game, from the in-game Options Menu).

Change Starting Level:
You can change the starting level number using this button. When you select this button, it opens up a big window showing 10 level icon buttons (each button shows the layout of that level), it also shows Previous and Next buttons, plus a Cancel button. You change the level by selecting one of the 10 big Level Number icons buttons. The Previous and Next buttons move through pages of 10 levels per page (There are 100 levels in the Full game). The Cancel button just closes this window without altering the selected level number. Please note, only the currently selected level number is written in White, All other level numbers are written in Yellow.

Advice of how to customize your game:
It is recommended that you do not set more than one option to a very high setting at any one time, at least until you get good at the game. For example, setting Total Pieces to a high number, and setting Difficult to easier settings makes a very interesting game. Another interesting variation is to set Shape Complexity to a high setting and Difficulty to about Normal or Tough, then Total Pieces to about 6 to 8. This is very challenging to build critical masses. There are many variations possible and its fun to experiment with setting up new game combination variations. :) (I would not recommend setting everything to max as even most very good players are unlikely to survive very long... especially on higher level numbers!).

If you are an experienced games player and you want a serious instant challenge, then I would recommend sometimes playing the game at higher settings on one or more of the options. If you fail to clear the level, you can always End the current game and then retry playing the same level (or a different level) with easier settings. Also higher level numbers have board designs which are more complex.

Sound volume:
When you are on the Main Menu, you can set the sound volume on the Customize Your Game window. When you are on the main in-game screen, (playing on the board), you can change the sound volume by selecting the Options button, which then shows a volume setting slider bar. The volume setting slider bar changes the volume instantly.

Registered and Unregistered Information:
To get access to the Full Game, you must enter the registration code that was emailed to you when you bought the game. Once this registration code is entered, the entire game is unlocked so you can play all levels for as long as you like and customize the game however you choose. Until this registration code is entered, the game plays in its Demo Mode, which prevents access (and hides access) to many of the game features. You should receive your registration code when you purchased the game. If you do not have the registration code, please contact the company you purchased the game from, as they should provide you with your own registration code.

To enter the registration code, please select the Enter Your Registration Code button on the starting Main Menu screen.

Before you start up the game, and enter the Registration Code screen, you need two pieces of information from your email. The first information you need is your 8 digit registration code (This code is made up of numbers and letters). The second piece of information you need is simply the email address that the Registration code was sent to, as this is considered your Purchasing Email Address.

The registration code screen first asks for your 8 digit code. You can enter your code by typing as normal on your keyboard, or you can enter the code using the on-screen number and letter buttons.

Once you have entered the 8 digit code (its always an 8 digit code), then you need to enter your email address. The game will automatically detect when you have finished entering your email address. Once you have correctly entered the Registration Code and your email address, the game will show a Thank You message for purchasing the game and thank you for supporting 3DAGames which allows us to continue to develop new games. :) Then it returns you to the Main Menu and from then on, you will have access to the entire game. :)

Please note: While you enter the Registration Code and your email address, the Delete button deletes the last character you entered. The Reset button deletes everything you entered, so you can start to enter the Registration Code and your Purchasing Email Address from the beginning again.

Please keep a copy of your Purchasing email containing the Registration Code. When new versions of Super Fusion are released, you can get free upgrades simply by downloading the new version of the game. For smaller feature updates, a game can often detect you have already entered your Registration Code, however for major new feature updates, you may at times need to re-enter your Registration Code so it is important you keep a copy of your Registration Code so you can get free access to each new update of the game. :)

Support Information:
If you have any questions or technical problems, then the 3DAGames support help page can be found at : www.3dagames.com/support/index.html

Alternatively, if you would prefer, you can email the 3DAGames support help line at : support@3dagames.com

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