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[posted 4 Mar 2003]
The Proving
Ground Readme and FAQ File
27 Feb 2003
By Anil Das-Gupta. Posted with his permission.
Well, it's finally
here, the finished version of the Proving Ground, an apprentice patch that allows
shadowfist duelling online. It's been hard work inputting ALL the cards from
the thousands available out there, but its all worth it when you kick some Shadowfist
butts against players from international waters like the USA and France.
Anil
1... Installation
and set-up
2... The Deck Editor
3... Playing an Opponent
4... Picks and Tricks to make life easier
5... Known Problems
6... Hall of Fame
7... Disclaimer
Installation of the Proving Ground Patch couldn't be simpler, all you need to do is to unzip the file ProvingGround.zip to any spare directory on your hard drive. Once unzipped, go to that directory and double click on the Proving Ground Icon and away you go! If you don't have Winzip, you can download it for free from www.winzip.com
Once you have begun the program, you will be presnted with a background of Ting Ting and will see the main interface for the first time. Before proceeding, click on Options>Set Name and change your name from Secret Warrior to whatever you feel like to denote which player you are in the duel. Then click on Options>Preferences and click on Themes and/or backgrounds. In the Proving Ground / Graphix directory on your hard drive, you will find a variety of themes and backgrounds that you can use if you don't like Proving Ground's default skin.
Once you have installed and set up Proving Ground, click on File>Deck Editor. From here you can make any deck you want to an dcan save it and export it to text file if you so wish. The Proving Ground now has every card ever made for Shadowfist, so you should be able to find what you need. If you can't think of a deck, or want a well-balanced duel, you can use the the 10 Thousand Bullets starters found in the Proving Ground / Decks / 10KBDecks folder. Remember to save your deck before quitting the Deck Editor.
So great you have your deck and now want to play someone online. To do this go to File>New Game. Then click on Load Deck and load the deck you wish to play. Then click on Connect via the Internet. You now have two choices. You can either host the game (Wait for Call) or Join a game (Call My Opponent). If you host the game, tell your opponent your Ip number, dispalyed at the bottom of the New game window and click on waiting for opponent. After a few seconds of your opponent entering your IP address into his or her Proving Ground application, the match will begin. If you are calling an opponent, instead click on call my opponent at, and type in their IP address into the space and click ok.
Here are some useful Picks and Tricks you may like to know to help you play:
Shuffle the Deck Crtl+S
Draw a Card Crtl+D
Talk to opponent Just type in what you want to say and press enter
Flip a coin Crtl+F
View Opponent's Smoked Pile View>Opponents Graveyard
View Opponent's Toasted Pile View>Opponents Removed from Game
Add 1 To Burn For Victory Action>Create Card and make a card called BFV
Play Card (eg Feng Shui) Face down Press SHIFT and drag the card from your hand into play
It is Proving Ground Ettiquette to use the Removed from Game pile as the Toasted Pile and the Graveyard as the Smoked Pile. Use the Life counter at the bottom of the screen to keep track of Power.
Find opponents
from the official Shadowfist yahoo Group, to subsribe email:
shadowfist_forum-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
Post messages by
sending messages to:
shadowfist_forum@yahoogroups.com
Sometimes when loading Proving Ground, you will be given a message saying " Violation error at address 0000000000046. Don't worry about this. If it happened when you opened the deck editor, close it and open it again until the message no longer appears.
Silver is not an
Integer Value:
Sometimes this message will appear. It is to do with the Background picture
used by Proving Ground. Discard this message, it will not have any effect on
play.
Some Firewalls or Local Area Networks seem to have problems hosting or joining games. There is currently no solution to this problem. If you are behind a firewall you could try turning it off, but i wouldn't advice you to do this for security reasons.
Unknown Cards:
The eagle eyed amongst you will notice there are a few "bonus" cards
in the Proving Ground that do not appear in the real game. If you are playing
an oponent ask them if you can use these cards before you begin playing with
them. It is my intention to add one fictional card designed by every player
on the Shadowfist Forum, so if you have an idea for a card, mail me and i will
add you to the mix :) Just for the record the extra cards at writing are:
Ace McFadden
Berrettas Akimbo
Yasuki Jul
A big thanks to:
Julien Moisy
- For Putting all of Dark Future into the database and colour coding each card
for 5 Different Sets and for helping me Playtest the prototype version of Proving
Ground.
Daniel "RandomBurg"
VandenBurg
- For helping to playtest the program and generally amuse me with Random coments
Ryan Sherrick
- For helping to playtest and letting me get a big ego for letting me win a
lot of the time.
Zev "The
Spoken Name" Shlasinger
- For bringing Shadowfist back to life by putting his own money into ZMAN games.
Top stuff.
Anil Das-Gupta
- A big thanks to myself for the countless hours "wasted" making the
Proving Ground in the first place.
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