With the left mouse button you can interact with the interface, as well as the objects in the game. Right clicking will bring up and take away the Inventory.
You can move around the level by clicking on the 6 buttons on the bottom of the screen
or by pressing the numbers on your numpad.

This is a communicator. When it is blinking like this, someone is right next to you and wants to speak with you. Face them and click this.

Hover over the interface for details.

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Inventory

This is where you put batteries in order to power your vehicle or probe.
The accepted items are & .

This is where you put fuel to fly with. The only accepted item is .

This is where you put weapons to shoot with. Any will work.

Place a or here to read it.
Be sure to click on the Turn Page button to read more.

The top row of 8 buttons determines how you want your probe to behave.
The arrows indicate in which direction you want your probe to explore,
but be careful when you send him off in any direction but straight.
The probe can get lost and run out of power. Best would be to keep it on a straight path.

How to Play

When you start on the first map, you are practically left with nothing, as Kamashy said.
You have very little fuel to fly with and very little battery power.
In order to get any useful items you will have to create them in the
Chemistry Lab using raw materials, such as .

The first thing you see would be what could be described as a hedge maze.
To your right is a which will eat you if you are too close.
Moving around in this area you will find and a hiding among them.
You may notice that this is close to the which makes it dangerous to retrieve.
One way to get it is to transfer your over to the probe and send it off to pick up the .
The alternative would be to have quick reflexes with your mouse and keyboard by quickly stepping into the danger zone, grab the book, and step out (using the numpad to walk around).

Once you got that and maybe read a bit, leave the area through the only available path.
Now, be careful because somewhere along the way there is a which may kill you if you don't have enough shields.
It can be hard to see, so feel free to use the map to know where to stop.
You can either fly over it, or use the probe to disarm and pick it up. Once you have it you can get some raw materials from it by putting it in your Chemistry Lab.

Keep going down this hedge maze until you find an open area. Find a to put in your Chemistry Lab.
And then you meet another . End of the line? Not quite. What you now have to do is attack this thing with brute force seeing as you do not have enough chemicals for weapons.
This is now the time to have quick reflexes with your mouse and keyboard. At a step's distance, take your and throw it at the (move the mouse close to the top of the screen and click).
Then quickly take a step forward, grab the , and step back. You know you've hurt it because you'll hear a special sound and the is behind the . Should you miss or you step on it mid-flight use the probe to retrieve it.
Repeat this process until it's gone and the path is clear. For that are to the side, you will have to side-step (numpad 4 & 6) in front of it before tossing the and stepping away, then stepping back to retrieve the and stepping away.
If you encounter more than one, start by attacking the ones on the side before the one in front of you. They are usually the weaker ones.

Why I did not talk about this method for the first is because that one is much stronger. Also it is best to find more materials to create weapons for later levels (where this method would not work).

At some point you'll meet 3 . These are stronger, and you can either take the "stepping method",
or at this point you may want to go to the Chemistry Lab and make a new and some .
By the time you find you may want to create a .

Once you've explored and picked up everything, it is now time for the very long journey back to the beginning, and take care of that first .
Once that is gone you come across a dead end? This wall is actually a little weak so all you need is 1 .
Go through, pick up stuff, and enter the portal to the next level,
where you will meet , where are definitely needed.

Map 3 is underwater and there you cannot use .
There are a few that will explode if you toss an object at them,
and a where you'll need something like or .