DAWNTREADER - Aquarius Computer

LIGHT and DARK are abstract concepts...

LIGHT can be perceived as good, energizing, healing, or rebirth. Yet too much LIGHT can burn, blind, wither, or destroy.

Similarly, the DARK can be perceived as evil, depleting, harmful, or death. Yet the DARK can also calm, soothe, protect, and nurture.

Still, you find yourself in the DARKNESS, where the walls seem to be made of a dense black void. You fumble around cautiously here, catching glimpses of corridors and other things scattered about.

What are they?

You feel the LIGHT growing within you, slowly, patiently, waiting to find its way out. It builds until you can no longer suppress it, and you choose to GLOW.

The walls come into focus and begin to take shape. You see objects that were only shadows before. Your movement is swift and more sure.

Still, the LIGHT builds within you, and you choose to FLARE, if only for a moment. The LIGHT expands and reveals more around you.

But your LIGHT has caught the attention of something else in the darkness.

It moves towards you...

Game Objective

Your objective is to bring LIGHT to the DARKNESS. To do so, you must explore every corner of these catacombs and collect PORTAL TOKENS.

After you collect them all, find and enter the PORTAL.

As you search, you must avoid enemies and items that sap your LIGHT. If your LIGHT is depleted, your current form will extinguish. You will then reappear to continue your search.

Other than the PORTAL TOKENS, there are no tools to collect to aid you in your quest.

Your LIGHT is the only tool you need to explore the DARKNESS.

But LIGHT can take many different forms:

• VEIL emits no LIGHT and allows you to regenerate your energy while moving slowly and quietly
• GLOW emits a small amount of LIGHT and illuminates your current SPACE while allowing you to move faster
• FLARE emits a larger amount of LIGHT, and illuminates a broader sphere around you while still allowing you to move quickly
• BEAM focuses your maximum LIGHT in one direction, lighting whole corridors, and eliminating enemies in its path
• DAWN spreads your maximum LIGHT across the whole ROOM
• DUSK extinguishes all of your LIGHT and returns you to your regeneration point

Game Features

• Classic 8-Bit maze-crawling adventure with a Game Noir theme
• 3-voice sound effects through the AY-3-8910 sound chip
• Use either keyboard or hand controller, your choice
• 25 randomly generated rooms with 45 unique spaces within
• Intelligent enemies that respond to movement, light, and sound triggers
• 32kb RAM expansion and Mini/Micro/MX Expander required
  OR
• Run on an Aquarius+ or Aquarius+ Emulator
  OR
• Run on Virtual Aquarius or AquaLite