Squared

Version 1.0. Copyright © 2003 Mateusz Metelski. All rights reserved.

• Table of Contents

Short Story
Game Rules
System Requirements
Legal Disclaimer
Donations

• Short Story

Squared is a game, which I've always very liked to play. Originally I played this game on a small sheet of squared paper during boring lessons, etc... So, when I was completely bored with a subject of lecture, I was just drawing a 10x10 grid and writing numbers into squares. I don't even know the original name of this game, but it's not so important... The fact is that it is totally addictive! I was not able to stop until I heard the bell ringing for a brake.

One day I sat in front of my computer and decided to write Squared. It was meant to be a small programming excercise for me, because I had too much spare time... The game was written within 2 hours, but all the improvements (changing user interface, details, creating this help file, cleaning up the source code) took me about 4 evenings. You may say it's not much for a good game but I'm quite satisfied with the result...

• Game Rules

1. The "game board" is a sheet of squared paper. It has columns and rows. Number of columns and rows depends on the game level.

Easy - 5x5
Normal - 10x10
Difficult - 20x20
Custom - you can define your own grid size

2. The point of Squared is to fill in all squares in the with numbers (starting from 1 to X, where X is the total number of squares).

3. You fill in a square by clicking on it.

4. When moving a mouse over a square you can see its color:

Cream - means that your mouse is currently over this square, but you cannot click it
Green - is when a square can be clicked (it's a valid move). On first move all squares can be clicked.
Blue - shows which square has been filled in previous move (only one square in the grid can be blue - it's the current number)

5. The valid move is only when the square which you want to click is "1-column and 2-rows" or "2-columns and 1-row" away from previous filled square. Don't get it? Look at point 6 ;))

6. It's exactly like in chess... The current number is for example "3" (in a blue square). To set "4" you need to feel like moving a knight from the blue square to another square. The "another square" will then be marked as "4"... Still not too precise? Look at the point below:

7. The valid moves described in a very, very simple way :) The figure below shows all possible moves from a blue square
(the valid ones have green color):

	2		2
2				2
		1
2				2
	2		2

8. I hope that you understand the rules at this point. If not, try playing the game and you'll learn them :)

9. Go ahead. Try different grid sizes, try asymetric ones (rectangle-shaped grids) but note that not all grids can be filled in completely...

10. Try to avoid blocking yourself. Sometimes you get blocked because you have no valid move possible to make.

• System Requirements

Squared is designed to run on Microsoft Windows 98 / Me / 2000 / XP / NT, but was tested only on Windows 98 and XP.

It requres an ordinary 200MHz processor and about 1 MB of disk space.

You shouldn't have any problem with running the game with other Windows versions, because it does not contain complicated programming methods and stuff. It means no DirectX or OpenGL support and so on... Anyway, if something goes wrong and you cannot execute Squared please let me know.

• Legal Disclaimer

SOFTWARE LICENSE AGREEMENT

You should carefully read the following terms and conditions before using this software. Unless you have a different license agreement signed by Mateusz Metelski, your use of this software indicates your acceptance of this license agreement and warranty.

Squared is a freeware program and may be used and/or redistributed freely without modification, provided that:

Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.

THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR AND CONTRIBUTORS "AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.

• Donations

This is a freeware game which in the simpliest way means that you can use it freely and give it to all your friends and enemies. But if you like Squared and want to help me a bit, you can donate. I will be very grateful for any amout of money.

If you want to appreciate my work and help me create new free games and programs, please click Donate in the game menu or visit www.freeware.private.pl/donate.html - Thank You :)

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