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Insaniquarium Information

Current released version: 1.01 - 21st February, 2003
Current release expires: never
Feedback to: Janet Campbell (jan@astraware.com)
Game Info: http://www.astraware.com/games/popcap/insaniquarium
Recent update headlines: Version 1.01 released - bug fixes and improvements listed below!

Copyright (c) 2002, 2003 Astraware Ltd, 2002, 2003 PopCap, 2002, 2003 Flying Bear Entertainment
All rights reserved.

Introduction

The aquarium you can hold in your hand!

Feed guppies and fight aliens in the craziest aquarium ever! Collect money and hatch all the pets in this fish-tastic action-strategy hit!

Feed and nurture your fish-tank full of guppies, while protecting them from mean and hungry aliens intent on invading your aquarium! Frantically collect falling money to buy just one more crazy upgrade! Ten unique pets help you out, from Stinky the greedy snail to Meryl the Mermaid and her beautiful song! Unlock a new pet every level in 'Quest' mode! Another great PopCap games licensed game!

- Completely original gameplay!
- Cute and colorful graphics!
- Low and high resolution versions for color devices!
- Enhanced sampled sounds for appropriate Sony and Palm OS5 devices!
- Online high-score table - can you get to the top?
- Three wacky types of fish to care for - coin-dropping guppies, voracious carnivores, and bizarre star catchers!
- Two attractive aquariums, each with unique features and strategies.
- Four scary alien invaders!
- Three unique game modes, Quest, Time Trial, and Challenge!
- Play the ten Quest mode levels to hatch the ten zany pets!
- Can you find the hidden pet, Brinkley the Scuba-diving Elephant?
- Collect cascades of money to get a high-score in Time Trial mode!
- Are you tough enough to collect all the egg pieces in the terrifying Challenge mode?

How To Install

Use an extractor program such as WinZip on the PC or Stuffit Expander on the Mac to get at the Insaniquarium files. Install the game by double-clicking the "prc" file.

- If you have a low-resolution color device, please install "Insaniquarium-lowres.prc"
- If you have a high-resolution Sony device (including OS5 devices such as the NX60 and NX70), please install "Insaniquarium-HiRes-SonySound.prc"
- If you have a high-resolution OS5 Palm (such as the Palm Tungsten T), please install "Insaniquarium-HiRes-OS5Sound.prc"
- If you have a grey-scale device you will not be able to run Insaniquarium, sorry.

Use the HotSync button as usual to install the game onto your handheld. If you have a handheld with an expansion card, you may move the game over to it. Do this before you register the game!

Now run Insaniquarium and tap the screen to play the game!

If you've got any queries about Insaniquarium or the registration process, first check out our knowledge base on our website (you must be connected to the internet to access this). If this doesn't help, get in touch with us at support@astraware.com. If you've got any questions (or suggestions, we love those) about the game itself, please get in touch with us at the email address at the top of this page.

How To Play

Tap the fish tank with your stylus to drop fish food. When your fish are hungry, they will turn a nasty greenish-grey. Feed them quickly or they will die and float to the top of the tank! When your fish have eaten enough food, they will grow larger and drop coins. Tap the coins to add them to your money stores.

Aliens will warp in and try to eat all your fish! Tap the aliens rapidly to shoot them with your laser. Tap aliens on the left side to push them to the right, and vice versa. Tap them on the top to push them down, and vice versa. With practice, you can steer aliens away from your fish. Watch out - some aliens later in the game must be killed in a different way!

As your fish grow, buttons will become available on the button bar near the top of the screen. Tap them to buy fish or upgrades. See the in-game instructions for a detailed description of the various available upgrades/purchases.

Above the button bar is the information bar. This shows how much money you have left, as well as other information relevant to the current game mode. Tap the information bar (or open the drop-down menu) to pause the game.

Game Modes

Quest Mode:

Quest Mode is the best mode for beginners. It will tell you everything you need to know to play the game in an integrated tutorial. But most importantly, Quest Mode allows you to collect pets!

A new pet is hatched at the end of every level. Each pet helps you in a different way. For instance, Zorf the Seahorse helps feed your fish. You can have up to three pets in the tank at one time. To end the level and hatch a pet you need to buy three pieces of the egg. The egg is on the right side of the button bar when all the buttons have been unlocked.

On the right of the information bar, your current level is displayed. There is no high score table for Quest mode. Once you have completed Quest mode, you can go back to any level at any time for fun.

Time Trial mode:

The aim of Time Trial mode is to collect as much money as possible within the time limit. The time remaining is displayed on the right of the information bar at the top of the screen. You can export your high scores from Time Trial mode to the Astraware web high-score table by selecting the menu option 'Export high scores.' Time Trial mode is a lot harder than the early levels of Quest mode, so it is best to play a few levels in Quest mode before you attempt Time Trial mode.

Challenge mode:

Challenge mode is the hardest game mode in Insaniquarium. It is recommended that you do not play this mode until you have played a few levels of 'Quest mode' to learn how to play the game. It is a real achievement to buy all three pieces of the egg in Challenge mode.

Every time an alien warps in, Challenge mode gets harder. The price of food, fish and upgrades gets higher. The aliens get more powerful, and they attack more frequently. Your pet fish become less resistant to hunger, and starve more quickly. They also take more food to grow.

Buying the egg in this mode massively increases your score. The first piece gives you 5,000 points and increases your score by 25%. The second egg piece gives you 10,000 points and increases your score by 50%. The final egg piece doubles your score. Points are also given for achievements such as earning money and getting your fish to grow. You can export your high scores from Challenge mode to the Astraware web high-score table by selecting the menu option 'Export high scores.'

Other

Reset Quest:

The 'Reset Quest' drop-down menu option will delete all the pets you have found, and send you back to the start of Quest mode. You can regain your pets by playing through Quest mode again. The 'Reset Quest' option is only available on the drop-down menu of the title screen.

Instructions:

If you ever get stuck, you can read the instructions in-game by selecting 'Instructions' from the title screen or the 'Options' drop-down menu. It contains a detailed and illustrated guide to all the pets, fish, aliens, and buttons that you will need to know about.

Registration:

In the unregistered version of Insaniquarium, only the first two pets and the first tank are available. You also cannot export a high score to the web high score table, or find Brinkley the elephant. To register, select 'Register' from the 'Options' drop down menu at any time. You will be prompted for a registration code. Registration codes can be purchased from the Astraware site

Hidden Features

Hidden pet!

There is a hidden pet in Insaniquarium called Brinkley the Scuba-diving elephant! Once you have unlocked him, you can write a capital 'B' to summon him if you have less than the limit of three pets already in your tank. Good luck finding him - he is very well hidden!

Registering

If you downloaded the game straight from the internet, from Astraware's website, or from one of the popular handheld download sites, then your copy is in 'Demo' form.

In Demo form, you can play 10 games of Insaniquarium for free, as you decide whether you like it or not. After these games are up, the program will display a short message reminding you to register each time you play!

If you beam a demo to someone else, and they also like the game, then they can register it either by purchasing a copy from a local store, or by purchasing online.

Registering Online:

For those that like the speed and convenience of buying of the internet, when you register for the game, you'll get a key which will unlock the game and remain valid for future 1.x upgrades. Go to the web page at http://www.astraware.com/games/popcap/insaniquarium for more details.

You'll need to know your HotSync ID which you can find by running Insaniquarium, and going into the menu, and selecting the 'Register...' option. Your HotSync ID will be filled in for you below.
When you register, Astraware will generate a key based on your ID, which will normally be sent out by email within 48 hours of you registering. When you receive your key, go to the same register option, and enter the key into the space provided.

Submit your High Scores!

Registered users of the game are entitled to submit their high scores to our Internet High Score table.

Just visit the Insaniquarium web pages at http://www.astraware.com/games/popcap/insaniquarium and select the link to view high scores.

To submit your own score, you need to go to the menu in the game, and select 'export high score'. This will provide you with a code which you can then type into our site:

http://www.astraware.com/high/

You can only submit high scores once you've beaten the scores built into the game!

(Astraware reserves the right to remove this board or facility without any notice, or to remove individual names if necessary)

Astraware Products

You can find out about Astraware and the product range we have for the Palm-powered platform by visiting our website at www.astraware.com.
Here are our top products at time of writing:

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It's A Blast! Shooting Pack | Let out your tension with some target practice with Galaxy Ranger, Police Range and Bang Bang!
Palm Games Pack 2001 | Zap!2000, Biplane Ace and Bzzz! together for under $25 - save over 25%
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Big Money! | Coin collecting fun in another Pop Cap classic!
Biplane Ace | Dogfight against rival fighter pilots
BookWorm for Palm | Feed the bookworm’s loquacious appetite with words made from connected letter tiles.
Bounce Out | Brain bending ball matching action
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Candy Cruncher for Palm | Candy Crunching Fun
ChromaGames | Great triple pack of classic games
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Galaxy Ranger | Be a Galaxy Ranger, Save the Universe!
Gem Drop | Gem dropping, jewel matching fun
Glinx | Make chains of gems as long as you can!
GTS Racing Challenge | Bring the power of high speed car racing to the Palm of your hand!
Insaniquarium | Feed fish and fight aliens in the craziest aquarium ever!
Link Letters for Palm | Form chains of words by altering single letters in Astraware's version of a classic word linking game
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Mummy Maze | Escape the maze and outsmart the mummy in this great PopCap game!
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Police Range | Police Range is a fast game of reactions, dexterity, accuracy and good judgment!
Ricochet | Classic brick blasting fun comes to the Palm in this conversion of the PC favourite.
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Round Up | Marble Moving Madness
Seven Seas | Ship Ahoy! Blast pirates with a broadside and navigate through dangerous waters, in this PopCap puzzle game
T-Blaster | Practice your graffiti/text entry by blasting aliens!
TacTic | A twist on the classic Tic-Tac-Toe game pits you against the brain
Text Twist | Juggle letters to make as many words as you can in a limited time!
What Word for Palm | Word finding fun on your palm
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Astraware Pocket PC Games
Abysma for PocketPC | It's a race against time as you attempt to fill in the puzzle pieces before the descending bar of doom!
Alchemy for Pocket PC | The Pocket PC version of this gold making game
Atomica for Pocket PC | Make Molecules in Dr. Atomica's Laboratory in Astraware's addictive PopCap puzzle game!
BookWorm for Pocket PC | Feed the bookworm’s loquacious appetite with words made from connected letter tiles.
Bounce Out! for Pocket PC | Brain bending ball matching action for the Pocket PC
Collapse! for Pocket PC | Tap matching blocks in this simple but frantic GameHouse game.
Diamond Mine | The Pocket PC version of the addictive PopCap gem-swapping game, Bejeweled
Elixir for Pocket PC | Collect valuable elixir from a stack of capsules without upsetting the balance in this ultra addictive game from Trixiam Studios.
Link Letters for Pocket PC | Form chains of words by altering single letters in Astraware's version of a classic word linking game
Mummy Maze for PPC | Escape the maze and outsmart the mummy in this great PopCap game!
Nisqually for Pocket PC | Make lines of blocks to clear the screen and complete the level
Rooks Revenge for Pocket PC | Try to kill king in this real time chess game from ASAP Games
Seven Seas for Pocket PC | Ship Ahoy! Blast pirates with a broadside and navigate through dangerous waters, in this PopCap puzzle game
Text Twist for Pocket PC | Juggle letters to make as many words as you can in a limited time!
What Word for Pocket PC | Word finding fun on your Pocket PC

Release Revision History!

Release 1.01 : 21st February, 2003

- Added a "Game Over" state at the end of the "Timed Game" mode
- Corrected bug where fish did not drop coins while hungry
- Corrected bug where prices in Challenge mode could go above $32,768
- Improved anti-cheat functionality
- Changes to the high score system

Release 1.0 : 3rd February, 2003

- First Public Release

Feedback

If you've got suggestions about how to improve Astraware Insaniquarium - or with reports of any problems you've had, then please contact us!

Insaniquarium enquiries/feedback: insaniquarium@astraware.com
Registration problems: registrations@astraware.com
General Astraware enquiries: feedback@astraware.com

Contributors

- Palm Game Programming: Janet Campbell
- Original Design: George Fan
- Game Graphics: George Fan, Tysen Hendersen, Stov Thorley

Thanks also to all the lovely people who helped beta test Insaniquarium, and please - no more fish puns! :-)

Legal

Astraware Ltd takes no responsibility for any adverse effect that this software could cause to your machine or the data on it: backup important data before using Insaniquarium. Insaniquarium is protected by copyright laws and international copyright treaties, as well as other intellectual property laws and treaties. Insaniquarium is licensed, not sold.

You may not reverse engineer, decompile, or disassemble this software.
Astraware’s and its suppliers’ entire liability and your exclusive remedy shall be, at Astraware’s option, either (a) return of the price paid, if any, or (b) replacement of the product that does not meet the warranty and which is returned to Astraware with a copy of your receipt. This warranty is void if failure of the product has resulted from accident, abuse, or misapplication. Any replacement software product will be warranted for the remainder of the original warranty period or thirty (30) days, whichever is longer. These remedies are not available without proof of purchase from an authorized source.

Written permission must be obtained before distribution of this game, either in demo form or full form, through any online or offline methods.

Copyright (c) 2002, 2003 Astraware Ltd, 2002, 2003 PopCap, 2002, 2003 Flying Bear Entertainment.

Astraware and the planet logo are trademarks of Astraware Limited. All rights reserved.