First of all; thank you for downloading Clouds Kingdom 3!
This game is freeware, developed and brought to you by Crobasoft - http://www.crobasoft.com

In this document you will find both background, and general information about the game's content. If you are looking for how to play the game, please refer to the first level of the game, which is a tutorial level.

We hope that you'll have a fun time playing Clouds Kingdom 3. And don't forget to visit our homepage for updates and more games!

"The two rivals, Master Jikah and Sinith Majoo, had been battling for almost two long years.
JiKah was an experienced ninja, and Majoo was a strong-minded wizard. Both of them were very strong and very skilled at fighting. Only JiKah and Majoo knew the reason why they were fighting each other. Spectators could had to guess the answer.


As the battle went on, Master JiKah felt that he was weaker than Sinith Majoo. It was something about Majoo's magical powers that made it almost impossible for JiKah to even hit him.

One day, JiKah lost the battle. He didn't die, but he surrendered.
Sinith Majoo spared his life, but sent him into another dimension, a dimension called the Clouds Kingdom. Master JiKah was weak and had no knowledge about magic, so he was forced to climb the clouds to find a way out.
It took him several days before he finally found a portal out of Clouds Kingdom. JiKah felt the anger rise inside of him, and he wanted to claim revenge on his opponent in a final battle. But then he would need to search the mighty lands of Rakast.


After he had rested a while, JiKah resumed his search for Majoo in Rakast.
The adventure went on, and he went through a bunch of portals before he finally found the room where Sinith Majoo was hiding, but he wasn't there. Instead there was an open portal in the centre of the room and Master JiKah decided to enter it.
He had nothing to loose.

He would do everything to claim the revenge on Sinith Majoo..."

Gameplay
If you ever played the first two games in the Clouds Kingdom series, you'll probably know that they didn't include any enemies or action at all. Both of them were all about jumping and avoiding stuff.
Gladly I am to announce the biggest addition in the last sequel; action.

In Clouds Kingdom 3, JiKah encounters enemies, which is a perfect opportunity to practice his skills with the sword. But he will also get to use Throwing stars and learn new abilities throughout the game.

The game is split up in chapters, and each chapter has a final boss. This means that there are no possibilities to rush through the game. But to make sure that the player (you) don't skip the enemies to just face the bosses, a score system has been implemented.
To earn score you can kill enemies. Depending on the difficulty of the enemy, the more score you'll get. You can also collect the diamonds that lay scattered all over the game.

Now is time for you to earn everyone's respect by getting the highest score on the online highscore list.

Graphics
The graphics have been greatly improved from Clouds Kingdom 2 and a lot of new effects have been added. The parallax backgrounds of each chapter has been designed to fit the current theme and gives the game depth. To give life to the different stages, there are a bunch of different sorts of vegitation and lifeforms.

Music & SFX
The music was one of the largest concerns during the development of Clouds Kingdom 3. Mainly because we didn't want the game's filesize to get too large.
It ended up with compressed MP3s that are a lot better than MIDIs or MODs/ITs.

The SFX brings life to the game. For example, there is a walking sound, which is quite unusual for this genre. The effects aren't ripped from a game or from a site, they are custom-made.

Here is a list of the soundtrack:
NOTE: Keep in mind that, renaming, removing or moving the mp3s will make the music not apparent.

ck3_bonus_theme.mp3 - 498 kB
ck3_boss_theme.mp3 - 908 kB
ck3_chapter_four.mp3 - 752 kB
ck3_chapter_one.mp3 - 677 kB
ck3_chapter_three.mp3 - 506 kB
ck3_chapter_two.mp3 - 568 kB
ck3_main_menu.mp3 - 663 kB
ck3_main_theme.mp3 - 690 kB

© Copyright 2005 by Johan Hargne.
All the songs were made during the develompent by Johan Hargne (Wartagon) 2005.
The songs cannot be used without the author's written consent.
If you want to contact the author, please send an email to:
wartagon@hotmail.com

Missing .dlls ?
If you can't get the game to play because of missing dlls, there should be no worries. Just go back to Crobasoft's homepage http://www.crobasoft.com and find the Clouds Kingdom 3 page under the games section. Below the link to the actual download, you'll find a link to a file named Needs.zip
Download that file and unzip its content into the Clouds Kingdom 3 folder.

Full screen or windowed?
Open up the Settings.exe program in the root folder and check the most upper checkbox to run the game in full screen mode. Or uncheck it to run the game in windowed mode.

Online Hiscore List?
In the Clouds Kingdom 3 root folder there's a shortcut to the online highscore list. Double-click it to open up an Internet window. NOTE: This requires a connection to the internet.

Bugs ?
Did you find a nasty little bug you want us to remove?
Please either email wartagon@hotmail.com or post at our forums section over at www.crobasoft.com and we'll try to do our best to update the game.

Lead design:
Wartagon

Lead programmer:
Destroyer

Addtitional programming:
Saven
Wartagon

Lead artist:
Wartagon

Additional GFX:
Destroyer
Saven

Manuscript:
Wartagon
Destroyer

Music & SFX:
Wartagon

BETA Testers:
Saven
Liquixcat
Cybermaze
Phizzy
Jay Whitehead
Adrian Silea

Production company :
Crobasoft
http://www.crobasoft.com

Copyright
The game and its content belongs to Crobasoft unless stated otherwise. This product is a freeware and may not be sold at all and no-one else may claim copyright to it. You should not have paid any money whatsoever for it.

Distribution
If you want to distribute this game on your site or magazine, you are free to do so as long as you let us know by sending us an email at
wartagon@hotmail.com