Magic Monkey Game Description

1. Game background
   This game is based on the famous Chinese novel "Journey to the west".
   
   Journey to the West is a classic Chinese mythological novel. It was written during the Ming Dynasty based on traditional folktales. Consisting of 100 chapters, this fantasy relates the adventures of a Tang Dynasty (618-907) priest Sand and his three discip les, Monkey, Pig and Friar Sand, as they travel west in search of Buddhist Sutra. The first seven chapters recount the birth of the Monkey King and his rebellion against Heaven. Then in chapters eight to twelve, you can learn how Sand was born and why he is searching for the scriptures, as well as his preparations for the journey. The rest of the story describes how they vanquish demons and monsters, tramp over the Fiery Mountain, cross the Milky Way, and after overcoming many dangers, finally arrive at their destinat ion - the Thunder Monastery in the Western Heaven - and find the Sutra.
   
   Journey to the West (Xiyouji), attributed to Wu Cheng'en (c.1500-82), opens with the birth from a stone egg of Monkey, who progresses from becoming the King of the Monkeys on the Mountain of Flowers and Fruit, to achieving supernatural Daoist skills. Bounding through the skies on clouds, he creates havoc on his visits to heaven in the vain hope of achieving ever higher celestial office. Having eaten the peaches of immortality specially grown for the banquet to be held by the Heavenly Queen Mother of the West, and upset the Jade Emperor and other deities, he is finally incarcerated beneath the Mountain of the Five Elements by the Buddha. Released to accompany the monk Sand on his quest to obtain the holy Buddhist scriptures from India, these two, and three other pilgrims - Pigsy, Monk Sha and the dragon horse - overcome 81 calamities and confrontations in the form of supernatural phenomena and monsters before reaching their goal and returning to China with the texts.
   
   The story is loosely based on an actual journey undertaken by the monk Sand in the 7th century across the desert wastes of Chinese Central Asia to India (equated with Paradise in the novel), the home of Buddhism, to collect Buddhist texts for translation into Chinese.
   
   Although the hero would seem to be Sand, it is Monkey's sarcasm, humour, wit and exuberance together with the dynamism of the many other characters that have captivated countless generations of readers. These qualities have given rise to the production down to the present day of many popular arts and crafts connected with the characters. Apart from numerous illustrated woodblock printed books, representations are found in ceramics, shadow puppets, papercuts, children's toys, dramas and operas, as well as modern comics, film animations and television series. Items in the exhibition include many such forms which reflect the wide appeal of the pilgrims escapades. Other exhibits relate to the real pilgrimage undertaken by Sand.
   
   
   
   
   

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2. Main roles in the Magic Monkey Game
   1. Wukong
   2. Tangsand
   3. Monster
   
   

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3. The roles of the Magic Monkey Game
   • Wukong is protecting Sand to the west and Monster is trying to eat Sand, so try to put Wukong between Sand and Monster.
   • There is a magic weapon for Wukong. The weapon locates at the bottom right corner of the Game Applet, move the mouse over the magic weapon picture and right click mouse, then the magic weapon will be on wukong's hand, then move mouse over anyplace over the Game Applet and right click the mouse, the magic weapon will be thrown towards that direction.
   • You should throw the magic weapon towards Monster and to kill it. Because the magic weapon has some effective distance and when the magic weapon in Wukong's hand the Monster will retreat, so you should make your judgment that the distance between Wukong and Monster should be within the magic weapon effective distance and then throw it towards Monster.
   • If you successfully kill the monster, then click the next button at the bottom of Game Applet,then the game will come into the next level.
   • There are three levels in the Magic Monkey Game, if you successfully pass the three levels, then you win the game. If in any stage of game, the monster touchs Sand, then you lose the game.