The Game - Giana Family


Creating a new game
Joining an existing game
The game rules
Extras
Game keys
Giana family on slow PCs

Creating a new game

  1. Start Giana.exe for Windows 95/98/2000/ME/XP (or GianaNT.exe for systems w/o DirectX5).
  2. Press Setup to change the game resolution (game has been optimized for 640x480), your player name/team, sound and music properties and the controller setup. (You can use any joystick or gamepad which has been registered by windows, or the keyboard.)
  3. Select a level and Start Single Player or go straight to the Multiplayer Game menu.
  4. Select the network protocol. (All windows-registered protocols are available.)
  5. Chose a map and the game rules.
  6. If you create a TCP/IP game and check the "Register Internet Game" option, the game will try to register the running game on a Game Registration Server, so others can find out your game's IP and join.
  7. Play an Offline Game for testing purposes or insert a game name and press Create to start a multiplayer game.
  8. Begin playing or wait for other joining players.

Joining an existing game

  1. Start Giana.exe for Windows 95/98/2000/ME/XP (or GianaNT.exe for systems w/o DirectX5).
  2. Press Setup to change the game resolution (game has been optimized for 640x480), your player name/team, sound and music properties and the controller setup. (You can use any joystick or gamepad which has been registered by windows, or the keyboard.)
  3. Press Multiplayer Game.
  4. To try to find some running games in the internet select Find Internet Games. This only works if a Game Registration Server is running, what is not guaranteed. If any running game IPs are shown, just select one to see if some games appear in the "Running Games" field. Otherwise proceed like described below. (This option isn't included in the GianaNT.exe)
  5. Select the network protocol. (All windows-registered protocols are available.)
  6. Press Find Games and wait until the desired session appears.
  7. Select the desired session and press Join. The connection process could take a long time, if the connection is bad.

The game rules

Standard Game

This is the dafault game mode. Each player starts with 100 health. Every diamond gives 10 health (maximum 200).
If your health drops below 0, you die. You also die by falling out of the game area or hitting a monster.
You can respawn by hitting the fire or special key/button.
You can damage other players by jumping onto them or hitting them with a shot.
A shot-extra can be used all the time, until you die or take another one.

Sudden Death

You have no health and die immediatly from every hostile source.
You can respawn by hitting the fire or special key/button.
You can kill other players by jumping onto them or hitting them with a shot.
While owning a shot-extra, your diamonds-total drops each second. If it drops below 0, you loose the extra.
If you ever should gain 100 diamonds in a single life, you become invulnerable for 20 seconds, but you'll loose your diamonds at this point.

Team Damage

If this option has been selected in all teamgame modes, teammates can hurt/kill each others.
Otherwise you will take no damage from your teammates' actions.

Game Rules

Here you can selected if you want to play a teamgame or a free for all, as well if special map scenarios like "Diamond Fever", "Capture the Flag" or "Domination" should be used.

Extras

Punker Ball

You can bash away some blocks by hitting them with the head from below. Some blocks are diamond sources, you can bash them to increase your diamonds/health, others hold extras or rocks.

Lightning

Shot with little bubbles.

Double Lightning

More damage than the lightning shot, but slower repeat count. The bubbles reflect on solid objects.

Strawberry

More damage than the double-lightning shot, but slower repeat count. The bubbles aim on the nearest enemy and chase him.

Clock

Hold down the special key/button for 4 seconds (you can't move). Then all other objects are frozen for the next 4 seconds.

Bomb

Hold down the special key/button for 4 seconds (you can't move). The bomb then inflicts damage to all enemies in range.

Waterdrop

Grants total protection of fires and lava damage. You can swim in the flood while pressing the jump key/button.

Lollypop

Grants invulnerability for 20 seconds, but ends invisibility.

Gelee Royal

Giana morphes into a killer bee, until touching any solid. Damages players by flying against them, but can be smashed from above. You can neither pick up anything, while a bee, nor use any weapons. Ends Invisibility.

Cloud

Grants invisibility for 30 seconds, but ends invulnerability.

Candelabra

Allows you to see in the darkness.

Snow Balls

You can throw snowballs. The longer you keep the fire-key pressed before release, the faster the snowball will fly. By pressing jump/left/right while holding fire you can adjust the throwing angle of all following snowballs.

Dream Grenades

This shot can be thrown like the snowball but inflicts area damage. The longer you keep the fire-key pressed before release, the faster the dream-grenade will fly. By pressing jump/left/right while holding fire you can adjust the throwing angle of all following dream-grenades.

Mirror

The mirror will replace your clock or bomb extra. While holding down the special key/button (you can't move) you will reflect enemy shots back, eventually even hurting the owner. This doesn't work on snowballs and dream grenades though.

Game Keys

ALT-K kills yourself, ALT-Q or ALT-X exits the game, ALT-D gives diamonds in single-player games and TAB shows the scores in multiplayer ones. ENTER allows you to send custom text messages. If you are the server, you can go to the next map (if specified) with ALT-N. The server can also select a different map to be played next, by pressing ALT-M (until the map appears on the list) and then the appropriate number to select it.

Giana Family on Slow PCs

If the game crashes in multiplayers games, perhaps your PC is too slow.
Try the following :



Andreas Kahn