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# Black Shades
Black Shades was one of the winners of the uDevGame 2002 contest,
out of about 40 contestants. David Rosen aimed for a much simpler
graphical style than in GLFighters and Lugaru in order to complete the game
within the deadline. In Black Shades you control a psychic bodyguard,
and try to protect the VIP (dressed in white) from a horde of zombies,
snipers and other assorted would-be assassins.
## Unique Features
* Infinite randomly generated city
* Rag-doll skeletal animation
* Soul release mode
* Fluid aiming system
* Stop assassins by shooting them, knocking them unconscious,
disarming them, tackling the VIP out of the line of fire,
or any combination of the above
## Instructions
Try to keep your VIP (the guy in white) alive as long as possible.
The assassins will all try to shoot or stab him to death. You must do
all you can to prevent this. Your reputation has preceded you, so the VIP
has absolute confidence in your abilities and will completely ignore all
the assassins. When an assassin is aiming at your VIP with a gun, you will
psychicly see a line of sight extending from him to your VIP. This line
will narrow and redden until it disappears and the assassin fires. Depending
on the situation it may be best just to shoot the assassin(s), or to dive
and tackle the VIP to the ground to avoid the bullet. Unfortunately
your psychic powers do not show the line of sight of knife-wielding assassins.
If you are feeling overwhelmed you can use psychic aiming to temporarily
speed up your thought processes and aim your shots better. If there are
no visible enemies you may want to release your soul and look for
nearby enemies. When your soul is released your VIP pulsates between
blue and red, civilians between black and red, and assassins are solid red.
If you die or your VIP is killed, the level restarts. If you are interested
in the theory behind this: you are a psychic bodyguard, so you can see
small distances into the future. The failure only occured in a possible future
which you are now going to try and avoid.
### Controls
* wasd = walk
* shift = run
* mouse = look
* control = crouch/zoom
* click = fire (while aiming) or smash (while running)
or pick up gun (while crouching over a body and not aiming)
or disarm (while not aiming)
* q = aim or un-aim (important for picking up guns)
* r = reload
* e = psychic aim
* z = toggle soul release
* space = dive (while running forwards)
* ctrl+g to grab/ungrab the cursor
* alt+enter to switch to fullscreen and back again
Keys for debug mode:
* tab = 3rdperson toggle
* f = force push :)
* shift-x = switch weapons
### Scoring System
* 150 points for a successful disarm
* 300 points for destroying a zombie (by blowing its head off)
* 100+50x points for completing a mission where x is the mission number
(i.e. 450 points for completing mission 3)
* 75 points for incapacitating an assassin, +50 if he had a knife
* -300 points for hurting a civilian
* -200 points for allowing the VIP to die
The penalty for failing to protect the VIP is halved if you kill the assassin.
You can edit levels by setting `Custom levels` to 1 in the config
and editing the `customlevels.txt` file in the data folder.
### Weapons
#### Bare Hands
Smack people with them. Or if you want to be nice, walk or stand (don't run)
near somebody with a gun and take it away.
#### Knife
Like bare hands, but deadly and with longer range.
Look out for knife-wielding assassins, they are the most dangerous.
#### Handgun
One shot with this should be enough to incapacitate
any human target, but they may remain conscious for a second
(this can be bad if they are about to stab your VIP, aim for the head).
#### Magnum
Not as much ammo as the vanilla handgun, but one shot is an instantenous kill.
#### Assault Rifle
This weapon has quite a kick and is bigger and more unwieldy than the handguns,
but it has a large magazine and can fire quickly if necessary.
#### Sniper Rifle
A bit more powerful than the magnum, with a scope.
Very difficult to aim unless you are zoomed in (zoom by holding the control key).
#### Shotgun
Aim and shoot. Very powerful but somewhat inaccurate.
#### Grenade
Hold down the mouse button to take out the pin, release the button to throw it.
Crouch to change your mind and put the pin back in. You can knock people out
if you hit them in the head, or of course you can just blow them to pieces.
## Troubleshooting
Right now it's all compiling…
The only known bugs are:
* It doesn't work too well under classic emulation
* Occasional collision detection issues
* Turning virtual memory off can cause speed issues
## License and Credits
Black Shades was originally developed by David Rosen for a Macintosh game
programming contest called uDevGame held by iDevGames.com in 2002 and released
under the freeware uDevGame License. In 2021, David Rosen relicensed the game
under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 3 or later.
Main menu music is included with permission from musician John Graham,
Copyright 2002. Due to legal difficulties all other music is composed
by David Rosen at the last minute based on some nice loops made by
Carlos Camacho, hence the *programmer music*.
Artist David Drew modelled the assault rifle,
sniper rifle, handgun, shotgun and grenade.
David Rosen's other friends and beta testers also helped
during the early phases of development.
Black Shades was ported to other operating systems by Steven "relnev" Fuller,
Dan "theoddone33" Olson, Ryan "icculus" Gordon and Zachary "zakk" Jack Slater.
The Bug was fixed by Toby Haynes.
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