UNI'S WORLD - HELP

8/11/2003

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Netscape and Mozilla WILL NOT WORK!

OBJECTIVE:

To spawn in the presence of other urchins so as to insure that your eggs are fertilized and your genes are passed on to the next generation.

To move takes energy [see "meter" on side of tidepool]. Run out of energy and you die.
You "eat" by being over the correct species of seaweeds and pressing the "EAT" button. This gains you energy [watch meter rise].
Attempt to leave the tidepool screen and you desiccate and die.
Attract the attention of the starfish and if you are eaten you die.
[move carefully and you can out run the starfish]
Eat up all the food before returning to "home" and you could run out of energy to spawn. You will eventually die and leave no offspring.
You must be in the "green" region of the energy meter to be able to spawn [SPAWN button]. There is only enough food in the tide pool for you to spawn once. Make it a good one.
Sea urchins are NOT fast movers. Be Patient! It takes time for "Uni" to get around.

The lowest number of moves to win the game is the "grand winner". So far that is 208 moves. Good luck!

From the Internet Explorer menu, choose VIEW | SOURCE. You will see the complete source code for "Uni's World". Feel free to offer suggestions for improvement. Uses Dynamic HTML and JavaScript. [ I did not use JAVA so that everyone could easily see the code and modify it]
Typing in http://www.stanford.edu/group/Urchin/uni/ will show you the directory of files used in Uni's World. From this you can copy individual files to your computer to be able to run Uni's World offline.