Bastille Instructions -
Mode d'emploi ©Francois Humbert
Bastille VG is one of Fran’s Video games and was initially designed between 10 to 20 years ago for small hand held devices as part of the author Memoires d’Enfance, 1000 years in Paris, it has been slightly reworked but remained a slow moving board like game better adapted to small screen Mobiles.
If you were looking for a fast moving shooting space invaders type of VG full of fast moving animations this Bastille Game does not fit this category at all.
Bastille is the first of a series of Games combining paintings, mainly from the author, with board type computer games built around these paintings themselves, some paintings coming from the Author Exhibitions are mixed with plans from National Archives colored and adapted by the Author.
There is an historical narrative coming with the games, specially for the ones around Paris.
Connections between the games and historical plans and paintings and google maps enable players to enjoy visiting simulateneously the locations in the games today.
The games have little sound, if you want some background music visit the author Fran’s Jukebox, google these two words and facebook or follow the direct link.
Bastille VG is one of Fran’s Video games and was initially designed between 10 to 20 years ago for small hand held devices as part of the author Memoires d’Enfance, 1000 years in Paris, it has been slightly reworked but remained a slow moving board like game better adapted to small screen Mobiles.
If you were looking for a fast moving shooting space invaders type of VG full of fast moving animations this Bastille Game does not fit this category at all.
Bastille is the first of a series of Games combining paintings, mainly from the author, with board type computer games built around these paintings themselves, some paintings coming from the Author Exhibitions are mixed with plans from National Archives colored and adapted by the Author.
There is an historical narrative coming with the games, specially for the ones around Paris. Connections between the games and historical plans and paintings and google maps enable players to enjoy visiting simulateneously the locations in the games today. The games have little sound, if you want some background music visit the author Fran’s Jukebox, google these two words and facebook or follow the direct link.
The Bastille was built between 1300 and 1400 and destroyed in 1789(Bastille Day!).
Nothing remains of it today apart from a more recent symbolic column de Juillet in the centre of the Place.
Unlike the Bastille, La Place Royale just next to it, which was built just hundred years later is still standing today, albeit renamed Place des Vosges to honour the first French Department having paid its taxes to the Republic.
The Painting above of Paris 500 Years ago by the Author enables to situate the Bastille and the Place des Vosges. Both standing at the top and most right side in this painting.
Most of the Landmarks in the painting above can also be visited today interactively(click links below) through Google images and Google My Maps, after the images are displayed if you have access to google maps just type in/ insert "google my maps" in front of the search bar and remove the word images at the end.
1- Ile de Louviers google "plan de Turgot" to see how was this island attached to the Marais today(it is the island at the top on the plan)
2- Bastille
3- Porte St Antoine, one of Paris Main entrances at the time
4- Place royale today Place des Vosges
5- St Paul le Marais and Musee Carnavalet et de la Ville de Paris
6- L'Ile aux Vaches is today the Ile Saint Louis
7-Notre Dame de Paris(1345)
8-Palais Episcopal/ Archbishop's Palace of Paris
9-Hotel Dieu
10-Eglise St Gervais
11-Ancient Pont Notre Dame with Water Mills(see 40 Large Image below)
12-Grand Chatelet Place du Chatelet today
13-Ste Eustache- Les Halles
14-Ancient Pont Aux Changes
15-Ancient Pont Aux Meuniers
hidden by the old two towers of the Palais de Justice
and the Saint Chapelle, Eglise des templiers ou de l’Etoile(Compostella)
15-first former Royal Palace Palais de Justice today
15-Sainte Chapelle(1248)
16-Pont Neuf in Construction
17-Paddle Boats, some with propulsion by horses
18-Chapelle Royale
19-Tour de Nesle
20-Porte de Nesle
20-Porte de Buci
20-Porte Saint Germain(1630 Library of Congress)
21-Porte Saint-Michel
21-Eglise des Archers
21-Ancient Pont St Michel
See also Painting above and 16b Large image Below
21-Eglise St Severin
22-Porte Bordelle See Painting above
23-Porte et quartier Ste Etienne du Mont. Behind the Pantheon and rue Soufflot
23-Eglise St Etienne du Mont(1626) Ste Genevieve Patron St of Paris was burried
initially in 511 in the same Chapel as Clovis(Ludwig), at this location,
Clovis(Ludwig/ Louis) first king of the Franks to unite all the Frankish tribes
24-Porte St Marcel et Porte et Pont des Tournelles(see above painting)
today entry to Rue de La Montagne Ste Genevieve, the oldest street in Paris,
the oldest street in Paris, the quartier St Marcel is named after Marcello
the first bishop of Paris who entered Lutetia with the first Romain Legion
arriving from Lugdunum(Lyon), Romains gave their name to the quatier Latin
see also Arene de Lutece today
Quartier St Marcel rue Mouffetard, rue et Place de la Contrescarpe
A Nothing much remains of the wall of Philippe Auguste in the painting above
B Porte St Jacques(de Compostella) See Painting above, is the Ancienne
Voie romaine crossing Paris from South to North
via the Petit Chatelet(see also Painting above) today near the Petit Pont.
see also Shakespeare & Co
C fortifications of Charles the Vth, today covered by Les Grands Boulevards
The Porte St Denis & Porte St Martin of today are not the ones built
initially by Charles the Vth but are much more recently built ones!
Bastille Instructions Summary
You have landed or have walked accidentally into the Bastille around 1400 and you have to play a kind of 3 dimensions chess game, each part / square of the game can be occupied simultaneously by one or several kind of chess pieces, bishop castle knight etc if two different pieces stand on the same square, the piece on top also hides another one of a different kind, just be aware of it!
By observing the chess movements you can anticipate these situations
You have a single goal reaching the bottom row in less than 39 moves, the queen and other chess pieces are standing on your way, and your moves are similar to the way the king moves on a chessboard, that is, one square at a time in any one direction!
You can chose to play on the same square ie not moving, to let the storm pass, but cannot repeat three times the same moves in immediate succession ie A to B then B to A three times in a row without being caught.
Once you are caught the total of points is displayed while you return to the top line and you need to click restart to continue.
Reaching the last line without to get caught wins the game, if two players play the game on the same screen, each player 1,2 plays a new game at a turn, the points accumulated in each game by each player can also be used to find the winner. With different screens you can play in parallel with as many players as you like each one of them being on a different screen, you will also be using the points displayed to find the winner!
Further detail in pictures below
The image on top below is a painting from the author
- La Bastille et la Porte St Antoine around 1689 or one hundred years before "La Revolution".
The Painting is inspired from a drawing above below by Adam Perelle Senior around 1689.
This drawing is visible at the Bibliotheque Nationale de France
- La Bastille...historical context!.
Bastille Porte St Antoine, J.Rigaut, Musée Carnavalet
L'intérieur de la Bastille en 1786 par Fragonard(BNF)
La Bastille was built in the Eastern area of Paris between 1350 and 1380 and was more than a fortress,
with the porte Saint Antoine on the side, it became for many centuries the main entrance to Paris via the Faubourg St Antoine
which was extending into the Rue St Antoine at the other side of the Porte St Antoine visible on the painting above.
The Porte St Antoine was decorated for Paris visiting dignitaries
The Rue St Antoine crosses the Romain road called today Rue St Jacques
(named after the pilgrims going to Compostella),
near the centre of Paris and the Paris Town Hall,
the famous place de Greves and its Guillotines was near it!
The Copper large nails in the ground that are remaining today are marking the spot,
while silver nails still remaining in some of the oldest Paris Streets today
were used to show where the old Paris Meridian passed by.
This Meridian was the Roseline painted on the maps used by navigators until the change to
the Greenwich Meridian was made.
Arago, a well known Mason unveiled the Paris magnetic meridian.
Some of these silver nails are visible in the Da Vinci Code movie.
The plan of Paris of Charles the VIth(1383) was made just after the construction of the Bastille
was completed.
La Bastille was built together with the new fortification of Charles the VIth
that circled Paris outside of the former fortification of Philippe Auguste(1180).
Both fortifications are visible on the Plan of Charles the VIth(google Charle VI Paris Plan for more)
The Paris Metro Lines 2 and 6 are built on top of these fortifications.
return to the game
The Bastille game is designed for small hand held devices
and simple to play on a little chess board like, the top line(1) is a safe protected line from any assailant,
you sail the ship gently "fluctuat nec mergitur" is Paris motto, I float but never sink,
moving one square at a time in any direction(2) including
the current square to let the cycle move forwards by simply clicking on the desired square.
Clicking beyond will return the ship to port.
to continue the game click preferably re-start or alternatively any square on the top line.
The goal is to reach the last line at the bottom of the board(3) but not the corners,
the starting square on the left or the instructions square!
To win you need to reach this line but not the corners, without been captured by the other pieces on the board.
To start the game click on any square or click preferably the starting square at the bottom left.
These instructions are made available by clicking the right bottom square.
The boat is slowed down by assailant and return to the starting square anytime it is captured,
to continue the game click any square on the top line.
Avoiding knights and bishops moving similarly to chess is part of the Bastille game, albeit, with one little difference,
there are many more knights and bishops and several can stand in the same square at the same time!
Both Castle/ rook and king move similarly also to chess, better to avoid being in the firing line though, no need to capture the king
the guillotine is not part of the game although you will have to avoid pawns bishops knights king and castles to avoid returning
to the Starting square.
Luck could be on your side if pawns bishops or knights obscure the view from the Castle or the queen!.
A piece can block the vision of the queen or the tower/ castle but dont take it for granted all the time, this protection is random.
Unlike in the chess game, Pawns(les fantassins) can afford straight line capture just above the current square at any time,
as well as the chess capture from the left and right square above the pawn,
you are just safe at the moment on the image below, but not for long!.
The image below right is the Place Royale until the French Revolution and the storming of the Bastille, Place des Vosges after this date,
named after the
first French Departmnent having paid its taxes to the new Government.
In the picture just below, the queen is prisoner and can only move on the last line(3) the line that you try to reach,
her view has become poor and behavior unpredictable but don't dream too much
it does also disturb the progression at times(2), it may be only random so don't
take it for granted!
The queen moves are limited to the last line but catching is identical to the chess game(1) and could hurt you by accident, though it is
more random and affected by the position of other pieces in the firing line.
Chance may be on your side if you reach this last line to complete this step without being hit.
After each step a message is delivered to help you with the journey in future steps.
In the picture below left, we try to follow the movements of pieces when several occupy the same square.
The Knight X and the Bishop Y hide other pieces.
When the knight X moves to K2 it unveils a bishop X that moves to B2 from the same square as the knight X.
The Bishop Y moves to B1 and unveils another Knight that moves to K1.
The new position of of the four pieces is visible in the image below right.
The images below shows more in detail movements when several pieces sit in the the same square.
The image on the left shows another part of the game where tokens are moving in the two dimensional plan inside a painting
without any overlay.
In the image below right the bottom right bishop moves underneath the pawn on the right.
The top left bishop moves with the knight underneath the pawn on the same side and the bishop that was hidden under the knight
suddenly appears. This exaplains the last picture following below right when suddenly the three bishops appear magically.
You dispose now of all the movements available. With the game you will need luck if you stay still too often,
ghost lurk around with bizarre bishops and knights behavior, few random things also happens naturally due to the programmer
limits and his age...ing memory and his preference for paintings and unfortunately very linear programming
rather than special effects and fast moving videos!
Anytime you click start / restart the game is re-initialised with different data.
return to the game
All Paintings displayed in the games from the artist are subject to copyrights
but free to print or attach to an email as long as the image's content is not modified. Feel free also to print paintings for a good cause!
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Mode d'Emploi
The Bastille was built between 1300 and 1400 and destroyed in 1789(Bastille Day!). Nothing remains of it today apart from a more recent symbolic column de Juillet in the centre of the Place.
Unlike the Bastille, La Place Royale just next to it, which was built just hundred years later is still standing today, albeit renamed Place des Vosges to honour the first French Department having paid its taxes to the Republic.
The Painting above of Paris 500 Years ago by the Author enables to situate the Bastille and the Place des Vosges. Both standing at the top and most right side in this painting.
Most of the Landmarks in the painting above can also be visited today interactively(click links below) through Google images and Google My Maps, after the images are displayed if you have access to google maps just type in/ insert "google my maps" in front of the search bar and remove the word images at the end.
1- Ile de Louviers google "plan de Turgot" to see how was this island attached to the Marais today(it is the island at the top on the plan)
2- Bastille
3- Porte St Antoine, one of Paris Main entrances at the time
4- Place royale today Place des Vosges
5- St Paul le Marais and Musee Carnavalet et de la Ville de Paris
6- L'Ile aux Vaches is today the Ile Saint Louis
7-Notre Dame de Paris(1345)
8-Palais Episcopal/ Archbishop's Palace of Paris
9-Hotel Dieu
10-Eglise St Gervais
11-Ancient Pont Notre Dame with Water Mills(see 40 Large Image below)
12-Grand Chatelet Place du Chatelet today
13-Ste Eustache- Les Halles
14-Ancient Pont Aux Changes
15-Ancient Pont Aux Meuniers
hidden by the old two towers of the Palais de Justice
and the Saint Chapelle, Eglise des templiers ou de l’Etoile(Compostella)
15-first former Royal Palace Palais de Justice today
15-Sainte Chapelle(1248)
16-Pont Neuf in Construction
17-Paddle Boats, some with propulsion by horses
18-Chapelle Royale
19-Tour de Nesle
20-Porte de Nesle
20-Porte de Buci
20-Porte Saint Germain(1630 Library of Congress)
21-Porte Saint-Michel
21-Eglise des Archers
21-Ancient Pont St Michel See also Painting above and 16b Large image Below
21-Eglise St Severin
22-Porte Bordelle See Painting above
23-Porte et quartier Ste Etienne du Mont. Behind the Pantheon and rue Soufflot
23-Eglise St Etienne du Mont(1626) Ste Genevieve Patron St of Paris was burried initially in 511 in the same Chapel as Clovis(Ludwig), at this location, Clovis(Ludwig/ Louis) first king of the Franks to unite all the Frankish tribes
24-Porte St Marcel et Porte et Pont des Tournelles(see above painting)
today entry to Rue de La Montagne Ste Genevieve, the oldest street in Paris,
the oldest street in Paris, the quartier St Marcel is named after Marcello
the first bishop of Paris who entered Lutetia with the first Romain Legion
arriving from Lugdunum(Lyon), Romains gave their name to the quatier Latin
see also Arene de Lutece today
Quartier St Marcel rue Mouffetard, rue et Place de la Contrescarpe
A Nothing much remains of the wall of Philippe Auguste in the painting above
B Porte St Jacques(de Compostella) See Painting above, is the Ancienne
Voie romaine crossing Paris from South to North
via the Petit Chatelet(see also Painting above) today near the Petit Pont.
see also Shakespeare & Co
C fortifications of Charles the Vth, today covered by Les Grands Boulevards
The Porte St Denis & Porte St Martin of today are not the ones built
initially by Charles the Vth but are much more recently built ones!
You have landed or have walked accidentally into the Bastille around 1400 and you have to play a kind of 3 dimensions chess game, each part / square of the game can be occupied simultaneously by one or several kind of chess pieces, bishop castle knight etc if two different pieces stand on the same square, the piece on top also hides another one of a different kind, just be aware of it!
By observing the chess movements you can anticipate these situations
You have a single goal reaching the bottom row in less than 39 moves, the queen and other chess pieces are standing on your way, and your moves are similar to the way the king moves on a chessboard, that is, one square at a time in any one direction!
You can chose to play on the same square ie not moving, to let the storm pass, but cannot repeat three times the same moves in immediate succession ie A to B then B to A three times in a row without being caught. Once you are caught the total of points is displayed while you return to the top line and you need to click restart to continue.
Reaching the last line without to get caught wins the game, if two players play the game on the same screen, each player 1,2 plays a new game at a turn, the points accumulated in each game by each player can also be used to find the winner. With different screens you can play in parallel with as many players as you like each one of them being on a different screen, you will also be using the points displayed to find the winner!
Further detail in pictures below
The image on top below is a painting from the author
- La Bastille et la Porte St Antoine around 1689 or one hundred years before "La Revolution".
The Painting is inspired from a drawing above below by Adam Perelle Senior around 1689.
This drawing is visible at the Bibliotheque Nationale de France
- La Bastille...historical context!.
Bastille Porte St Antoine, J.Rigaut, Musée Carnavalet
L'intérieur de la Bastille en 1786 par Fragonard(BNF)
La Bastille was built in the Eastern area of Paris between 1350 and 1380 and was more than a fortress,
with the porte Saint Antoine on the side, it became for many centuries the main entrance to Paris via the Faubourg St Antoine
which was extending into the Rue St Antoine at the other side of the Porte St Antoine visible on the painting above.
The Porte St Antoine was decorated for Paris visiting dignitaries
The Rue St Antoine crosses the Romain road called today Rue St Jacques
(named after the pilgrims going to Compostella),
near the centre of Paris and the Paris Town Hall,
the famous place de Greves and its Guillotines was near it!
The Copper large nails in the ground that are remaining today are marking the spot,
while silver nails still remaining in some of the oldest Paris Streets today
were used to show where the old Paris Meridian passed by.
This Meridian was the Roseline painted on the maps used by navigators until the change to
the Greenwich Meridian was made.
Arago, a well known Mason unveiled the Paris magnetic meridian.
Some of these silver nails are visible in the Da Vinci Code movie.
The plan of Paris of Charles the VIth(1383) was made just after the construction of the Bastille
was completed.
La Bastille was built together with the new fortification of Charles the VIth
that circled Paris outside of the former fortification of Philippe Auguste(1180).
Both fortifications are visible on the Plan of Charles the VIth(google Charle VI Paris Plan for more)
The Paris Metro Lines 2 and 6 are built on top of these fortifications.
return to the game
return to the game
The Bastille game is designed for small hand held devices
and simple to play on a little chess board like, the top line(1) is a safe protected line from any assailant,
you sail the ship gently "fluctuat nec mergitur" is Paris motto, I float but never sink,
moving one square at a time in any direction(2) including
the current square to let the cycle move forwards by simply clicking on the desired square.
Clicking beyond will return the ship to port.
to continue the game click preferably re-start or alternatively any square on the top line.
The goal is to reach the last line at the bottom of the board(3) but not the corners,
the starting square on the left or the instructions square!
To win you need to reach this line but not the corners, without been captured by the other pieces on the board.
To start the game click on any square or click preferably the starting square at the bottom left.
These instructions are made available by clicking the right bottom square.
The boat is slowed down by assailant and return to the starting square anytime it is captured,
to continue the game click any square on the top line.
Avoiding knights and bishops moving similarly to chess is part of the Bastille game, albeit, with one little difference,
there are many more knights and bishops and several can stand in the same square at the same time!
Both Castle/ rook and king move similarly also to chess, better to avoid being in the firing line though, no need to capture the king
the guillotine is not part of the game although you will have to avoid pawns bishops knights king and castles to avoid returning
to the Starting square.
Luck could be on your side if pawns bishops or knights obscure the view from the Castle or the queen!.
A piece can block the vision of the queen or the tower/ castle but dont take it for granted all the time, this protection is random.
Unlike in the chess game, Pawns(les fantassins) can afford straight line capture just above the current square at any time,
as well as the chess capture from the left and right square above the pawn,
you are just safe at the moment on the image below, but not for long!.
The image below right is the Place Royale until the French Revolution and the storming of the Bastille, Place des Vosges after this date,
named after the
first French Departmnent having paid its taxes to the new Government.
In the picture just below, the queen is prisoner and can only move on the last line(3) the line that you try to reach,
her view has become poor and behavior unpredictable but don't dream too much
it does also disturb the progression at times(2), it may be only random so don't
take it for granted!
The queen moves are limited to the last line but catching is identical to the chess game(1) and could hurt you by accident, though it is
more random and affected by the position of other pieces in the firing line.
Chance may be on your side if you reach this last line to complete this step without being hit.
After each step a message is delivered to help you with the journey in future steps.
In the picture below left, we try to follow the movements of pieces when several occupy the same square.
The Knight X and the Bishop Y hide other pieces.
When the knight X moves to K2 it unveils a bishop X that moves to B2 from the same square as the knight X.
The Bishop Y moves to B1 and unveils another Knight that moves to K1.
The new position of of the four pieces is visible in the image below right.
The images below shows more in detail movements when several pieces sit in the the same square.
The image on the left shows another part of the game where tokens are moving in the two dimensional plan inside a painting
without any overlay.
In the image below right the bottom right bishop moves underneath the pawn on the right.
The top left bishop moves with the knight underneath the pawn on the same side and the bishop that was hidden under the knight
suddenly appears. This exaplains the last picture following below right when suddenly the three bishops appear magically.
You dispose now of all the movements available. With the game you will need luck if you stay still too often,
ghost lurk around with bizarre bishops and knights behavior, few random things also happens naturally due to the programmer
limits and his age...ing memory and his preference for paintings and unfortunately very linear programming
rather than special effects and fast moving videos!
Anytime you click start / restart the game is re-initialised with different data.
return to the game
return to the game