The Hobbit (graphic adventure)
Introduction
Dear residents of the Middle Earth, if you are reading these lines then you are going to get
suddenly yourself into the skin of Bilbo Baggins, a Hobbit from the Shire, whose main
aspiration is to continue to live among his people, enjoying their comfortable cave.
That would have remained happening if there had not had this unexpected visit.
What would they want from a gentle Hobbit, a wizard as Gandalf and a company of 13 dwarfs?
Those strange visitors told Bilbo the terrible history of a dragon called Smaug, he had whipped
their land and had stolen their treasure. Their plan was to recover both things, but to reach
their goal they needed an additional member to work as looter. The best creature to do it was
a little and silent Hobbit.
If you decide to play, your mission will consists to help Gandalf and the dwarfs to recover their
treasure, keeping you safe from all hazards on the Middle Earth.
The game screen:
In the picture bellow you can find three different sections in the game screen.
TITLE & PROGRESS BAR
ACTION & INVENTORY BAR
GAME
SCENARY
TITLE & PROGRESS BAR
In the numeric indicator located at right of the bar we can read in every time the adventure
progress reached.
We start with 0% and solving all puzzles of the adventure we can reach 100%. The game can be
finished with a score lower than 100%, because some things are not necessary to finish the
game.
ACTION & INVENTORY BAR
The action & inventory bar will let us select the action to interact with any element in the
scenery.
The bar is divided in two different parts; the left part corresponding to the available actions
and the right part corresponding to the inventory (pocket). In the inventory area we will store
every object we get along the adventure.
We can select three different actions, corresponding with the three first icons on the bar:
Look: This option lets to see the sceneries, the objects and the characters.
Use/take: With the hand icon, we can take objects and do actions in some parts of the
game.
Talk: Selecting this icon, we can talk with some characters in the game
At right of these three icons we have space to store seven objects. If we fill the inventory,
the program will not let us to get new objects until we drop someone.
We can move the action selection cursor with the keys “Z” and “X”. The action used will be
always the one under the cursor.
MOVING OUR CHARACTER
As we have used in the majority of Spectrum games, the movement keys are the following:
“O”: Move to left
“P”: Move to right.
“Q”: Move to up.
“A”: Move to down.
Additionally you can use “Enter” key to execute the selected action.
GETTING/DROPING OBJECTS AND DOING ACTIONS
The way to do an action is to select the action desired with the selection cursor and look the
object or place with our character, and then press “Enter”.
When an object is not walkable, will be not necessary to press enter, then will be enough with
go until took the desired object.
Example:

Look Action
In general all objects and Sceneries can be looked.
Sceneries will be looked automatically when we enter the first time into a room, but we can
look it again if we want to, using the eye icon.
If our character is in any walkable place (with no objects) and we press “Enter” with the eye
icon selected, we will look the room again.
Use/Take Action
There are 13 different objects along the game. All them can be taken and used. Some parts of
the sceneries can also be used.
To do the Use/Take action, we will select the hand icon and we will place our character in front
of the object or place to be used/taken. Then we will press “Enter” or the proper direction key.
In order to make more comfortable the Take action, objects will be taken also if the Talk icon
or an empty place of the inventory is selected.
When we take an object, it will be placed in the first empty place in the inventory. You can use
it since that moment.
The Use action with some parts of the scenery will let to solve some puzzles, letting us (for
instance) to find some hidden objects.
Talk Action
It will be necessary to use Talk action to solve some puzzles. We only can talk with some
characters in the game and not with the enemies (with exception of Gollum in his cave).
PRESS “Q” OR “ENTER” TO
LOOK THE MAP
Talk action can be used in the same way than the others, i.e. facing the character to it,
selecting the talk icon, and then pressing enter or the proper direction key (OPQA).
The exception is Gollum. You will be killed if you are near him. Due to it you will talk with
Gollum using Talk action in any place of his cave.
Use of the inventory objects
We will need to use the objects of the inventory to solve some puzzles in the game.
We can use an object selecting it and facing our character to the place or character to be used
with.
We will drop an object, pressing “Enter” in an empty place. We can take it again later.
In the picture below, Bilbo shows to Gandalf the “Curious Map”. Gandalf answer he doesn’t
know to read it.
Solving the Trolls puzzle
As an example to help you to understand the game, we will explain how to solve the first
puzzle in the game.
When we enter in the Trolls clear, we find a nasty surprise; two terrible Trolls are waiting tokill
us in the entry. We need to take the key to unlock the door to enter into their cave.
It is not possible to avoid Trolls; they kill us for sure, and in the case we can escape from them,
will be not possible to take the key, it’s always protected by one of them.
To solve the puzzle is necessary to remember when Bilbo and his company escape from them
in the book. When you know, it’s very easy, we just have to wait until dawn, then Trolls will be
turned into rock.
After we enter in the Trolls clear, we run away to the next room, and we wait walking around
until it dawns.
If we were enough patients an apparently irresolvable puzzle will be something without
difficulty.
Trolls are turned into rock and the way is now free.
We take the key and we use it with the yellow door to unlock it.
After this example you are ready to face alone all the dangers of the Middle Earth.
¡¡¡Good luck and go to find the treasury!!!
The Hobbit (graphic adventure)
Introduction
Dear residents of the Middle Earth, if you are reading these lines then you are going to get
suddenly yourself into the skin of Bilbo Baggins, a Hobbit from the Shire, whose main
aspiration is to continue to live among his people, enjoying their comfortable cave.
That would have remained happening if there had not had this unexpected visit.
What would they want from a gentle Hobbit, a wizard as Gandalf and a company of 13 dwarfs?
Those strange visitors told Bilbo the terrible history of a dragon called Smaug, he had whipped
their land and had stolen their treasure. Their plan was to recover both things, but to reach
their goal they needed an additional member to work as looter. The best creature to do it was
a little and silent Hobbit.
If you decide to play, your mission will consists to help Gandalf and the dwarfs to recover their
treasure, keeping you safe from all hazards on the Middle Earth.
The game screen:
In the picture bellow you can find three different sections in the game screen.
TITLE & PROGRESS BAR
ACTION & INVENTORY BAR
GAME
SCENARY
TITLE & PROGRESS BAR
In the numeric indicator located at right of the bar we can read in every time the adventure
progress reached.
We start with 0% and solving all puzzles of the adventure we can reach 100%. The game can be
finished with a score lower than 100%, because some things are not necessary to finish the
game.
ACTION & INVENTORY BAR
The action & inventory bar will let us select the action to interact with any element in the
scenery.
The bar is divided in two different parts; the left part corresponding to the available actions
and the right part corresponding to the inventory (pocket). In the inventory area we will store
every object we get along the adventure.
We can select three different actions, corresponding with the three first icons on the bar:
Look: This option lets to see the sceneries, the objects and the characters.
Use/take: With the hand icon, we can take objects and do actions in some parts of the
game.
Talk: Selecting this icon, we can talk with some characters in the game
At right of these three icons we have space to store seven objects. If we fill the inventory,
the program will not let us to get new objects until we drop someone.
We can move the action selection cursor with the keys “Z” and “X”. The action used will be
always the one under the cursor.
MOVING OUR CHARACTER
As we have used in the majority of Spectrum games, the movement keys are the following:
“O”: Move to left
“P”: Move to right.
“Q”: Move to up.
“A”: Move to down.
Additionally you can use “Enter” key to execute the selected action.
GETTING/DROPING OBJECTS AND DOING ACTIONS
The way to do an action is to select the action desired with the selection cursor and look the
object or place with our character, and then press “Enter”.
When an object is not walkable, will be not necessary to press enter, then will be enough with
go until took the desired object.
Example:

Look Action
In general all objects and Sceneries can be looked.
Sceneries will be looked automatically when we enter the first time into a room, but we can
look it again if we want to, using the eye icon.
If our character is in any walkable place (with no objects) and we press “Enter” with the eye
icon selected, we will look the room again.
Use/Take Action
There are 13 different objects along the game. All them can be taken and used. Some parts of
the sceneries can also be used.
To do the Use/Take action, we will select the hand icon and we will place our character in front
of the object or place to be used/taken. Then we will press “Enter” or the proper direction key.
In order to make more comfortable the Take action, objects will be taken also if the Talk icon
or an empty place of the inventory is selected.
When we take an object, it will be placed in the first empty place in the inventory. You can use
it since that moment.
The Use action with some parts of the scenery will let to solve some puzzles, letting us (for
instance) to find some hidden objects.
Talk Action
It will be necessary to use Talk action to solve some puzzles. We only can talk with some
characters in the game and not with the enemies (with exception of Gollum in his cave).
PRESS “Q” OR “ENTER” TO
LOOK THE MAP
Talk action can be used in the same way than the others, i.e. facing the character to it,
selecting the talk icon, and then pressing enter or the proper direction key (OPQA).
The exception is Gollum. You will be killed if you are near him. Due to it you will talk with
Gollum using Talk action in any place of his cave.
Use of the inventory objects
We will need to use the objects of the inventory to solve some puzzles in the game.
We can use an object selecting it and facing our character to the place or character to be used
with.
We will drop an object, pressing “Enter” in an empty place. We can take it again later.
In the picture below, Bilbo shows to Gandalf the “Curious Map”. Gandalf answer he doesn’t
know to read it.
Solving the Trolls puzzle
As an example to help you to understand the game, we will explain how to solve the first
puzzle in the game.
When we enter in the Trolls clear, we find a nasty surprise; two terrible Trolls are waiting tokill
us in the entry. We need to take the key to unlock the door to enter into their cave.
It is not possible to avoid Trolls; they kill us for sure, and in the case we can escape from them,
will be not possible to take the key, it’s always protected by one of them.
To solve the puzzle is necessary to remember when Bilbo and his company escape from them
in the book. When you know, it’s very easy, we just have to wait until dawn, then Trolls will be
turned into rock.
After we enter in the Trolls clear, we run away to the next room, and we wait walking around
until it dawns.
If we were enough patients an apparently irresolvable puzzle will be something without
difficulty.
Trolls are turned into rock and the way is now free.
We take the key and we use it with the yellow door to unlock it.
After this example you are ready to face alone all the dangers of the Middle Earth.
¡¡¡Good luck and go to find the treasury!!!