Mad Stick is a fast paced arcade ice hockey game for 1-4 players on the same screen.
The game has been designed for Xbox360 controllers, but supports keyboard input for one player.
Requirements: Windows XP SP2 or Vista, .NET 2.0, XNA Framework, DirectX 9.0c
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Mad Stick (Assembly 2007)
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INDEX
1. PREREQUESTIES
1.1 Xbox 360
1.2 Windows
2. CONTROLS AND INSTRUCTIONS
2.1 Main Menu
2.2 Team Menu
2.3 Game
2.4 Keyboard
3. VERSION HISTORY
3.1 Alpha
3.2 Beta
3.3 Final
4. CREDITS
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1. PREREQUESTIES
1.1 Xbox 360
To deploy from PC to Xbox360:
- Visual C# 2005 Express Edition
- XNA Game Studio Express 1.0 Refresh
To play on Xbox360:
- XNA Creators Club Accout
- XNA Game Launcher
- 1-4 game controllers
1.2 Windows
- Windows XP SP2 or Vista
- .NET Framework 2.0
- DirectX 9.0c
- XNA Framework 1.0 Refresh (included)
Redistributable for XNA Framework is included in the redist folder.
If you are missing something else go to http://www.microsoft.com/downloads to get the rest!
To be able to play the game properly you will need:
- 1-4 Xbox360 controllers (but one controller can be emulated using the keyboard)
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2. CONTROLS AND INSTRUCTIONS
2.1 Main Menu
- Move in the menu using the dpad up and down and accept selection by pressing A button
- One on One selects 1 vs 1 game
- Two on Two selects 2 vs 2 game
- Difficulty changes computer's skill level between novice, normal and expert
- Vibration toggles controller's vibration effects on and off
- Safe area changes safe area between none, small and large
- Exit quits the game
2.2 Team Menu
- Select your team by moving thumb stick to left or right
- If you choose to use your right thumb stick then it will move your player and the left thumb stick will move the goalie
- If you choose to use your left thumb stick then it will move your player and the right thumb stick will move the goalie
- In two on two game you can use both thumb sticks to control two players and the goalie
- When you are done configuring the teams press A button to start the game
- To get back to Main Menu press B button
- To reset the teams press X button
2.3 Game
- Move your player using the selected thumb stick and shoot using left or right trigger
- Move your goalie with the other thumb stick
- Press start button on any game controller to toggle pause
- Press back button on any game controller to abort the game and return to Main Menu
2.4 Keyboard
- Can be used to emulate one controller:
ARROW KEYS - right thumb stick & dpad
WASD - left thumb stick
SPACE - triggers
ENTER - A
ESCAPE - B and Back
BACKSPACE - X
P - Start
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3. VERSION HISTORY
3.1 Alpha
- First version
3.2 Beta
- Fixed pause to work with all controllers
- Added menu sounds
- Added vibration support
- Added safe area support
- Added keyboard support
- Added overtime
3.3 Final
- New graphics
- Some finetuning
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4. CREDITS
Code - Siffo
Graphics - Peeba
Music - Nobody
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