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께      Kierra Entertainment          께
께      Pyramid Readme File           께
께    (C) 2006 by Josh Lauber         께
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1. Requirements
2. Game Story
3. How to Play
4. Important Info


1. Game Requirements
Pyramid requires the following on your system:

 MS-DOS in Protected Mode
 
 Video Card that supports VESA. 320x200x16 bit colors.
 
 Sound Card for MIDI and Wave sounds

 Keyboard

 Mouse

 The 80386 is the absolute minimum processor the game can run on. It is a 32-bit protected-mode DOS program.

 If you don't have a program to run MS-DOS in protected mode, you can try CWSDPMI.

 Note: Your mouse and sound card drivers MUST be loaded BEFORE running pyramid.

2. Game Story
This Game is a remake of an original I made back in 2002 as a small static graphic adventure when I was new to QBASIC.
This "renewed" version has the same general story, but the graphics were heavily improved.
I've also added many things to the game.

The story goes like this:
You are an explorer who has heard of this Legend back in Ancient Egypt that a Pharaoh owned a powerful Golden Gauntlet that could unleash the power of the afterlife and bring back the dead. You want to find the ancient relic even though it may not exist. You must explore the Pyramid to see if you can find it. You must be very careful inside the Pyramid. It is very maze like and has many, dangerous traps.
Good Luck.

3. How to Play the Game
Before Playing this Game, you should open up the setup.exe to set up your game, to be sure that it will work properly. If you experience any problems with the game, you should first try to change the settings. If it still doesn't work then report to our message board at http://www.kierragames.proboards67.com and tell about your hardware info.

The game is very different than Spirit Warrior if you have played it. The keyboard is no longer needed to play the game, except when saving. Everything is done with the mouse.

First to run Pyramid, run the Pyramid.exe. Once the game title has started
Click on start new game. You should see yourself in the desert with a river and a bridge.
First thing you should do is to get used to the interface. Move the mouse to the top of the screen. At the top is an icon bar that controls the game.

Please note that this is a BETA release, which means that it can be unstable. Be warned of bugs that can occur anywhere.
Some of which can be fatal to the program. If such happens which the program locks up press ALT-X to terminate the game.
You can also press CTRL-R, to check the room number to report bugs.


The Walk Icon:
The Walk Icon should look an Egyptian Person

This icon will allow you to walk. Clicking on this will give you a cursor that will look like this icon. Wherever you click on the screen, the character will walk to the point. He will also automatically walk around solid objects.

The Look Icon:
The Look Icon should look like the Egyptian Eye of Horus

This icon will allow you to look. Clicking on this will give you a cursor that will look like this icon. Wherever you click on the screen, the game narrator will give you a message of the object you clicked on. For an example if you click on a tree a message box will pop saying something like this: "It's a tall, old palm tree that occupies the area around the river."

The hand Icon:
The hand Icon should look like an Egyptian Hand 

This icon will allow you to take, manipulate, etc. Clicking on this will give you a cursor that will look like a hand. This would be used to pick up an object, Opening a door, drink from a lake, etc.

The talk Icon:
The talk icon should look like a talk bubble

This icon will allow you to talk to other characters. Clicking on this will give you a cursor of a talk bubble. Click on the person with the cursor that you wish to talk to.

The last inventory item used Icon:
The last inventory item icon should like a black square. When you have the last inventory item available, its image will appear in the box.

The Inventory Icon:
Clicking on this icon accesses the inventory screen, from which you can access all objects you have.

The Hydro Indicator:
The hydro indicator shows your hydration level. Click it and you will see the number of screens you can survive. Going to a desert screen will deplete it by 1. Leaving it to another will deplete it by 1 more. You can survive 7 rooms without drinking water from the river or an oasis. 

The Gold icon:
With this icon you can find out how many gold coins you have in your inventory.

The Kierra Logo Icon:
This opens the Control Panel. See below.

The About icon:
The about icon shows you information about the game. It also shows the AGS version and copyright.


THE CONTROL PANEL:
This window allows you to save your game, restore to an old game, restart to a brand new game, or quit the game.
This window also shows your score and has sliders for the game's speed and music volume.



4. Important Info
This game (Pyramid) is (C) 2005, 2006 by Josh Lauber

  Written and Designed by: Josh Lauber, DragonWarrior, and DELO
  Programmed by: Josh Lauber
  Sound Effects: DragonWarrior
  Graphics: Josh Lauber
  
  Kierra Intro Movie
   Graphics: Josh Lauber
   Sound: DragonWarrior

  Visit Our Website at http://www.geocities.com/kierragamers
  Message Boards: http://www.kierragames.proboards67.com


  The Oasis / River
  and Caravan Merchant Camp midis
  are (C) 1990 by Sierra On-Line
   from the game King's Quest V
   Midis Sequenced by: http://www.QuestStudios.com
   Original Composers: Mark Seibert and Ken Allen
  King's Quest(R) is (C) 1984-2006 by Sierra On-Line
   http://www.sierra.com

  The Title midi
  is (C) 1991 by Enix Corp.
   from the game Dragon Warrior(R) III
   Midi Sequenced by: Zagro - www.zagronia.com (caribou911@hotmail.com)
   Original Composer: Koichi Sugiyama
  Dragon Warrior(R) is (C) 1989-2006 by Enix Corp.
   http://www.enix.com

  The Pyramid Interior midis
  are (C) 1994 by Sega
   from the game Sonic and Knuckles/Sonic 3 & Knuckles
   Midis Sequenced by: Paul Lapensee
   Original Composers: Shigeaki Irie, Masaaki Nishizawa, Goro Takahashi 
  Sonic is (C) 1991-2006 by Sega
   http://www.sega.com

This game was written in AGS (Adventure Game Studio)
(C) 1999-2006 by Chris Jones (http://www.adventuregamestudio.uk)

Special Thanks to the Graphic Artists of King's Quest V, because their work for the King's Quest
V drawing scenes helped me for Pyramid's desert scenes.

Also, thank you Rad Gaming Tools, because the Rad Video Tools helped us create the Kierra Intro.
 (Windows version only)

Please check the EULA.TXT for the End User License Agreement


AGS licenses:

TrueType font display uses ALFont by Javier Gonzalez and the Freetype project. 
Distributed under the terms of the FreeType project license.

OGG player is alogg by Javier Gonzalez, using the Ogg Vorbis decoder, which is available from http://www.xiph.org/ Copyright (c) 2002, Xiph.org Foundation

MP3 player is almp3, by Javier Gonzalez and the FreeAmp team. 
It uses the mpg123 MP3 decoder, and is distributed under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License version 2.1.

All the license_* files are licenses for code used in AGS



