
Zot/PalmOS
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Zot is a portable highly moddable simple game engine. Or more specifically,
people can play Zotscript games on any Zot engine, and virtually anyone can
write Zotscript games -- no programming experience is necessary!

This first release is made for GBAX.com 2004 competition :)

Jeff Mitchell
http://www.codejedi.com

Links
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If you wish to start writing your own Zot games, or join into the Zot
message board or mailing lists, etc, just head over to the website:

http://www.codejedi.com/zot

Install
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Send Zot.prc to your handheld; you can put it anywhere you like .. in device
RAM, on expansion card, whatever. The easiest way to install it is simply to
double click on the .prc and it'll be scheduled for upload next hotsync.

The datafiles for Zot/Palm currently must reside on expansion card on your
handheld, though I will have a packer in a little while so that the files can
be compressed and reside in RAM and be installable as easy as the main
application.

The harder part is getting all the datafiles to your handheld; for now you
will need a card writer, or a software that simulates one. Its too tedious to
get them to your expansion card using hotsync manager. Use a card writer
(USB ones can be had very cheaply), or Card Export software (shareware), or
the Sony Clie units cna use MSExport, etc, built in.

Copy the entire Zot directory into /PALM/Programs, so that you now have:

/PALM/Programs/Zot
/PALM/Programs/Zot/Topdown/lots-of-files
/PALM/Programs/Zot/Platform
..etc..

Running
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Simply run Zot from your Launcher. It'll chug for a moment as it opens up the
artwork needed, and then present you with a menu of gamescripts included.
Note this demo includes some simple game scripts to illustrate the ease of
making basic games and how you cna mod them. Nothing fancy yet but we're
working on it! :)

Use your device hardkeys (or analog stick for Zodiac, or D-Pad for Tungsten
models) and a right-side hardkey (or Zodiac trigger) to select a game.
After a game has loaded, you'll start playing; how it plays is up to the
scripter, but essentially..

The Zodiac analog, Tungsten D-pad, or device hardkeys do movement (either
pushing the player in some direction, or rotating him, or otherwise adjusting
the location/movement). The triggers (rightside hardkeys) act as fire-1
which is usually to shoot and fire-2, which is usually to activate a button
or other Action.

Scripting
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You too can mod Zot; it is easiest to build your scripts on a desktop and
then copy them to your handheld, but you can build them on your handheld if
you wish. Just create another directory (easiest to copy one of the existing
ones), and start hacking away!

Enjoy!

jeff
