INNERTUBE FOR BIOEXPLORER GAME INSTRUCTIONS


Goal: Try to get to the end of each level before the time runs out.

Overview: There are 20 levels to play.  Each level starts red and progresses to orange, yellow, green, blue and finally purple before the level ends.  Use the color to know how far through the level you have progressed. Collect the orange (points) and green (additional time) diamonds as you progress through the game.

Navigation: You can control the ship with a joystick (press any joystick button to start / stop the ship), the keyboard (press shift to start), or you can set the game to autopilot so that the computer steers the ship.

In Game Help: For more extensive help, keyboard controls and much more go to the Inner Tube help menu and choose “Help…”.

Basic Keyboard Controls
Shift    Start automatic forward movement
Arrow Keys    Rotate ship
Page Down    Stop forward movement (in joystick mode this also starts/stops the ship)

Feedback
The default configuration of Inner Tube uses a reward band (from the SomaticVision.bxd BioExplorer design) to control the speed of your ship and the size of the ship exhaust. The rolling fog, sky visibility and music volume are all controlled by the inhibits (to remove the fog you must stay below inhibit). You can easily set the configuration in the “Game Settings” window under “Feedback Settings”. Full customization is available through “File->Custom Settings…”.

Using the BioExplorer SomaticVision.bxd design: The SomaticVision.bxd allows you to reward any one frequency band and inhibit any one or two frequency bands.  To begin open the SomaticVision.bxd design (in BioExplorer) and set your reward and inhibit bands.  You can go to ‘Tools->Filters’ to adjust the frequency bands (12-15 Hz, etc.) then double click on the band you want to change (and enter your values) or click once and use the arrow keys (left-lower, right-higher, up-wider, down-narrower).  Set both the Low and High inhibits to the same range if you wish to only use a single inhibit.  The inhibits and the reward thresholds are set to auto-threshold (percent success).  You can adjust the percent success of the thresholds by double-clicking a threshold object in the Signal Diagram and changing the ‘Auto Target (Percent Success)’ value.  The default low and high inhibits are broad, covering 0.5Hz – 38.0Hz.  The default reward is 12.0Hz – 15.0Hz.
Warning about designing your own BioExplorer designs: This is an advanced and difficult topic. Only very advanced users should adapt their own BioExplorer designs for use with Particle Editor / Inner Tube. If you would like a custom design made for you please see the "Creating a BioExplorer Custom Design" help topic from within the program help (Help->Help...).