The Space Adventure game can now begin.
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+ Welcome to the Space Adventure game!
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Today you will have the opportunity to take part in a journey through space.
+On your journey, you will be controlling a spaceship and visiting different planetary systems
+with the goal of collecting as many points as possible.
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The more points you collect, the more money you will get for your participation!
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Before you start, the following tutorial will teach you everything you need to play the Space Adventure game,
+such as how to move the spaceship, how the planetary systems work and other game rules.
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Please press the right arrow key to continue or the left arrow key to go back one page.
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+ In each game trial you will visit a new planetary system.
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A planetary system will always consist of 6 planets
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+ You will be able to guide the yellow spaceship shown below to different planets.
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+ There are different types of planets (indicated by colour).
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Some planet types will give you points and others will make you lose points when you land on them (as shown below).
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+ Your goal is to collect as many points as possible.
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A blue bar at the top of the screen will show you the amount of points you have already gathered to help you keep track.
+You can see the points bar on the next intruction screen.
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The bar will turn red if you are running low on points
+and the game will terminate if you run out of points completely.
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+ There are two ways in which you can travel to different planets.
+ +You can either go one step in the clockwise direction by pressing the M-key on your keyboard
+or you can go two steps in the clockwise direction (i.e. to a not directly adjacent planet) by pressing the X-key.
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+ To get used to this you will now get to practice moving the rocket one step in the clockwise direction (M-key).
+ +Please try this command a few times by repeatedly pressing the M-key in the next instruction screen.
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The next instructions will show automatically when you have done this enough times.
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+ You will now also get to practice moving the rocket two steps in the clockwise direction (X-key)
+Please try this command a few times by repeatedly pressing the X-key in the next instruction screen.
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The next instructions will show automatically when you have done this enough times.
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+ You just learned how to to navigate to different planets.
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You will now learn that landing on a planet can sometimes be affected by cosmic conditions.
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On most planets in a planetary system the landing conditions are ideal.
+So, your spaceship will be able to land reliably on the target planet you are heading for.
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However, in every planetary system there is also one planet that is surrounded by an asteroid storm.
+You can always see clearly see which planet is affected. An example is shown on the next instruction screen.
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+ Landing on this planet is more difficult because of the asteroid storm.
+Therefore, the rocket might sometimes miss the target planet
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So, if you try and go to a planet with asteroids, please remember
+that you will not always reach the location you planned to go to.
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+ Here you see an example of where the rocket might land if you go forward
+one step (picture to the left) or two steps (picture to the right) in order to reach a planet with asteroids.
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The solid arrows show the target planet and
+the dashed arrows show you where the rocket might land if the target is missed.
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+ To give you a feel for how reliable landing in an asteroid storm is, you can try this out a few times in the next instruction screen,
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+ One last thing you need to know:
+In each new planetary system you can travel to 3 planets and you have to try to collect as much points as possible on the journey.
+The number of green squares in the centre of the screen shows you how many planets you can still visit before moving to a new planetary system.
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+ To summarize:
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Your task is to collect as many points as possible by travelling from planet to planet.
+You can travel either one (M-key) or two steps (X-key) in the clockwise direction.
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+ The bar at the top of the screen shows you how many points you currently have.
+In each planetary system, there is one planet that is surrounded by an asteroid storm
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+This can sometimes cause you to land on one of its neighbouring planets instead of the target planet.
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+It will help you a lot in the task if you plan all 3 of your travel steps in advance.
+Example: Imagine you start in the planet constellation given below.
+ +If you plan only two moves in advance, you would move forward one step to the +20 planet and then
+move two steps forward to the +10 planet. However, then you would be forced to travel to one of the red planets (-20) and in total earn only 10 points.
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+ So, in this planetary system it would have been better to lose a smaller amount of points first
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+ You will now practice a whole game trial.
+Please plan your 3 travel steps in advance so that you get as many points as possible but
+do not enter new travelling commands while the rocket is still moving.
+The rocket has to land first before you can input your next action.
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You can always take as much time as you need to plan your journey.
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There is no asteroid storm in these sample runs for simplicity.
+Don't forget to press the M-key with your right index finger and the X-key with your left index finger.
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+ Congratulations! You have new learned everything you need to know for your Space Adventure!
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+ Das Training Spiel ist zu Ende.
+Ihre Training Treibstoffreserven sind aufgebraucht.
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Ihr Weltraumabenteuer kann nun beginnen.
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Drücken Sie die rechte Pfeiltaste, um fortzufahren.
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+ The experiment is now over.
+Thank you for your participation.
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+Thank you for your particpation!
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