Millipede

Starting a Game

Gameplay

Millipede puts the player in control of an archer in a garden patch, with an army of menacing bugs invading it!

Move the archer in any direction on the screen using the joystick. Press the fire button on the joystick to fire an arrow upwards on the screen. Avoid incoming bugs by moving the archer away from them. If a bug hits the archer, you’ll lose a life!

Mushrooms in the garden can be destroyed. Hit a mushroom 3 times with arrows to destroy it. Any Mushrooms that are damaged will regenerate fully when an archer is lost.

Interface

1. Player Score
2. Player Lives
3. High Score
4. Bonus Indicator

Enemy Types

Millipede

The millipedes attack from the top of the garden, moving left to right downwards. When a millipede hits an object that isn’t a bug or the archer, it reverses its direction.

• When a segment of the Millipede is shot, a mushroom takes its place.
• When part of the Millipede is hit, it splits into two and both parts move separately.
• When a Millipede is destroyed completely, the screen scrolls down one row
• If a Millipde appears that is only 4 segments long, the screen will scroll down one row every 2 seconds, until it is destroyed.
• When a Millipede hits a poisoned mushroom, it changes colour and direction, falling vertically to the bottom of the screen.

Spider

Spiders enter from the side of the screen, jumping downards towards the player. The points a spider is worth depends on how close it is to the archer when hit.

• A spider destroys any mushroom or flower it moves over.

Beetles

Beetles appear randomly after the second Millipede has appeared. They appear from the bottom sides of the screen and move around randomly, before moving upwards and exiting the screen. If a beetle hits a mushroom while exiting the screen, it turns into a flower.

• Flowers cannot be destroyed by the archer, and are turned into normal Mushrooms when the current archer is hit.
• When a beetle is hit by the archer, the entire screen scrolls down one row, bringing all mushrooms closer to the archer.

Mosquito

• Mosquitos appear when a millipede with fewer than 9 segments is on the screen.
• The mosquito’s speed increases as the player’s score increases.

Bees

• Bees randomly fall from the top of the screen during any round.
• As they fall, they leave a path of new mushrooms behind them.
• Bees take two shots from the bowman to be killed - the first shot speeds the bee up.

Inchworm

• Inchworms move slowly around the screen when they appear, but speed up when the player has more than 80,000 points.
• When an inchworm is hit, the movement of all insects currently on the screen is slowed for 5 seconds.

DDT Bomb

Hit a DDT bomb in the garden to earn a large amount of points instantly. Hitting a DDT bomb that has bugs nearby will eliminate any bugs in range - bugs destroyed by a DDT give the player triple the points.

• DDT Bombs poison any mushrooms within their range.

Dragonfly

• Dragonfies move in a zig-zag pattern, and their speed increases as the player’s score increases.
• Like the Bee, as a dragonfly moves, it leaves a path of mushrooms behind it.

Earwig

• Earwigs poison mushrooms they come into contact with, changing their colour.

Insect Raid

After a Millipede of 1, 3, 5, 7 or 11 segments is destroyed, an insect bombing raid occurs. A raid may contain one, or a combination of:

• Bees
• Dragonflies
• Mosquitos

With each insect hit during a raid, a 100 point bonus is added to each bug hit, up to 1000 points.

Scoring

The player can choose to begin the game with an increased starting score - the starting score can be set between 0 - 60000.

After playing your first game, you can start at 10,000 points below your high score, up to 300,000.

Spiders

Each time a spider is killed, the points the player has earned will appear on-screen where the spider was killed. The player earns:

• 300 points for hitting a spider at long range
• 600 points for hitting a spider at medium range
• 900 points for hitting a spider at close range

Each time you lose an archer, you receive 5 points for every Flower, poisonous Mushroom, or partially destroyed Mushroom left in the garden.

Story

An army of menacing Millipedes - cousins of the famed Centipede - have invaded your garden patch, and you must shoot arrows at them to rid your plot of these pesky pests.

But wait! The Millipedes aren’t the only insidious insects you have to destroy.

Jumping Spiders, Buzzing Bees, Bouncing Beetles, Mosquitos, Dragonflies, Inchworms, and Earwigs all have unique and deadly powers of their own!

Rid your garden of those bothersome bugs!