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Music Notes In Space HN, version 2.0

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• Use of Direct3D for a better experience
• New V and B key to shoot laterally on notes, meteorites and comets
• New counter to select the number of Whole note to shoot to win the game
• No more 1000 points Score limitation
• Hi-Score at the end of the game
• Distant Galaxies mode
• 10 000 points Bonus to win by answering to a question about music note durations
• Uncompressed sounds for a better audio quality

Why don't all music notes look the same?

The way a note looks indicates its duration, that is how long it must be played.

A WHOLE NOTE	A HALF NOTE	A QUARTER NOTE

• A WHOLE NOTE is the longest note: its duration is twice the duration of a Half note. It takes 2 Half notes to make a Whole note. This means that in an orchestra, for instance, in the same amount of time that a musician plays a Whole note, another can play two Half notes.
• A HALF NOTE lasts twice as long as a Quarter note. It takes two Quarter notes to make a Half note.
• Since1 WHOLE NOTE =2 HALF NOTES and1 HALF NOTE =2 QUARTER NOTES, then1 WHOLE NOTE =4 QUARTER NOTES.

There are other, shorter durations: the 8th note, the 16th note, the 32th note, and the 64th note. This version of Music Notes In Space HN only uses whole, half, and Quarter notes.

NOTICE. In the game, the notes are in color. But if you look at actual sheet music, you will see that music notes are always written in black and white only.

How to play Music Notes In Space HN (and how to win!)

Select a level

Before playing, you must choose a level of difficulty: BEGINNER - ADVANCED - EXPERT. Simply click on the level you want. According to the level of difficulty you have selected, the game will be slower or faster, and fewer or more notes will be on screen at the same time.

WARNING: There is a great difference between the three levels of difficulty. The Expert level is truly challenging.

Answer to the preliminary mini-quiz

Before playing, click on the correct answer to the question that pops up on your screen. If you make the right choice, you keep you 10 000 points bonus and the mini-quiz disappears. If you pick a wrong answer, your bonus is divides by 2, and you must take the mini-quiz again. Don't worry if you don't know the answer and make mistakes at the beginning, you're going to learn quickly just by playing the game!

Options

Use the Options menu to customize your game:

Distant Galaxies mode G - Play in Distant Galaxy modes to change the color of your game

Meteorites and comets T - See below

Display notes value during the game D - During the game, when a note split or when two notes collide, a message is brievely displayed on the screen. Try it!

How to play

Shoot at the floating notes with your Spaceship: the duration indicated by your Spaceship (WHOLE NOTE, HALF NOTE, QUARTER NOTE) must match the duration of the note you hit.

• To change the duration indicated by your Spaceship, use the Up and Down arrow keys
• To move your Spaceship across the bottom of the screen, use the Left and Right arrow keys
• To shoot latteraly at the notes, press the V and B keys, to shoot frontally - and run the game - press the Spacebar key.

Game in full screen

You can use the Game/Full Screen menu Alt + Enter to play in full screen.

In full screen, the menu bar is not available. The game automatically come back to the window mode when you get an Hi-Score or when you play a new game.

Start the game

To start the game, shoot with the Space bar.

Score

Keep track of your score with the indicator in the upper right corner of your screen.

To win points

• When you hit a Whole note, it splits into 2 Half notes (1 Whole note = 2 Half notes) or into 4 Quarter notes (1 Whole note = 4 Quarter notes) and you win 400 points.
• When you hit a Half note, it splits into 2 Quarter notes (1 Half note = 2 Quarter notes) and you win 200 points.
• When you hit a Quarter note, it is destroyed and you win 100 points.

To loose points

Colliding notes

• When 2 Quarter notes collide with each other, they turn into a Half note (2 Quarter notes = 1 Half note) and you loose 200 points.
• When 2 Half notes collide with each other, they turn into a Whole note (2 Half notes = 1 Whole note) and you loose 400 points.

Wrong hit

If you hit a note but the duration indicated by your Spaceship didn't match the duration of the note, your hit is wrong and you loose the points you should have won for a correct hit.

Note colliding with your Spaceship

• If your Spaceship collides with a Whole note, you loose 400 points
• If your Spaceship collides with a Half note, you loose 200 points
• If your Spaceship collides with a Quarter note, you loose 100 points

Missing shot

When you miss your shoot and your projectile hit the right, left or top of the screen you loose 100 points

Lives: comets and meteors

Keep track of the number of lives you have left with the life indicator in the upper left corner of your screen.

If a METEOR collides with your Spaceship, the Spaceship explodes and you loose 1 life (If you run out of lives, you loose the game). You can shoot down the meteors and win 200 points. Try to shoot down each meteor as soon as it appears. Otherwise, its speed will increase with each rebound.

COMETS are harmless, but you win 1 extra life and 1000 points for every comet you shoot down.

To make the game easier to win, you have the option of deactivating comets and meteors. Simply select Options/Comets and Meteors T . Notice that if you deactivate comets and meteors, you cannot loose lives and the life indicator is turned off.

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