
       Lachie Dazdarian Presents
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         Ver.1.2 - June, 2008

          Table of Contents
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     |  1. About The Game      |
     |  2. Running The Game    |
     |  3. Playing The Game    |
     |  4. Credits             |
     |  5. Troubleshooting/Q&A |
     |  6. Version updates     |
     |  7. Contact             |
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1. About The Game
=================

Barren is a 2D point and click adventure
game played through the eyes of the player
(scene by screen scrolling).

The Barren story is placed in a 
SF-phantasmagoria type of setting where 
you play a humanoid creature of unknown 
origin stranded in a strange world.

Barren is a relatively short adventure 
game, spans over some 25 scenes, but 
features a fair amount of cut scenes and 
some interesting surprises.

This game is FREEWARE. I take NO 
responsibility for any damage or loss of data 
etc. that may occur by installing/using this 
software. As FREEWARE, I offer no liability 
to provide maintenance of the software or 
technical support. You are allowed and 
encouraged to share this software in its 
original state, but are not allowed to make 
profit on distributing it. 

All the original content in this game is 
copyrighted, from the graphics, music to 
story. You are not allowed to use it in 
your own projects, freeware or not.


2. Running The Game
===================

Double click on the Barren.exe file.

You can set the game resolution before
starting it via setup menu (320*240 or 
640*480). You can also choose will the game 
start full screen or not, color bit-depth, 
screen doubling filter (if playing in
640*480) and font style.


3. Playing The Game
===================

Barren is an intuitive point and click game, 
but its entire mechanics/rules are also 
explained in the instructions.html hyper-text 
document. So you shouldn't have problems
there.

On the main menu use the arrows to scroll 
through options, and click on them to choose 
them.

You have 4 save game slots available and
you can overwrite a used save game slot as 
many times necessary.

Beside that you should be aware that you can 
change the duration of text messages in the 
game by using the appropriate option in the 
game options.

The duration of text messages does not apply 
on the game cut scenes.


4. Credits
==========

Concept and design by Dean Janjic
                      (aka Lachie Dazdarian)

Programming by Dean Janjic
               Na_th_an

Graphics by Dean Janjic
            Josiah Tobin
            Na_th_an
            Vincent DeCampo

Music/sound by Josiah Tobin
               Christopher Brown

Main game font: Chris Chadwick 
                (from his PP256 utility)

Beta testers: cha0s, Pritchard, Dr_D, Gert, 
              Joseph Najjar, sir_mud, krcko

Thanks to...

v1ctor for making FreeBASIC and all the
developers for continuing to improve it.

Angelo Mottola for the GFXlib 2.

Pete Berg for 28 issues of QB Express.
Good luck on your around the world trip!

Relsoft for making a coder out of me.
That was a huge success. ;)
BTW, where are you? ;)

notthecheatr for being a FBGD staff 
member and a friend (right?)

Pritchard for being very active in the
community and a FBGD staff member. I
sincerely wish you a first fully fledged
game.

hexdude! for putting me up. ;)
Don't stab me in the back!

krcko for FB Packer and for offering to 
work on our "secret" project. Hope you 
will deliver. ;)

yetifoot for the image scrambler routine.

BadMrBox for being a regular in my forum
and soon releasing his FB mini RPG (right?)

Kristopher Windsor, dabooda, syn9, Z!re,
Phyco, nkk_kan, Hezad, Dr_D, Lithum and
other active FB developers who I forgot 
to mention, because of their FB game
dev activity.

D.J.Peters' for multiput.

All coders who had the patience to
teach me something.

Special thanks to... 

Josiah Tobin for being an invaluable help 
in completing this project (you saved it!)
and also a great beta tester. 

Joseph Najjar for all the kind words on
the Barren demo and motivating me to
complete this game.


5. Troubleshooting/Q&A 
======================

#1 Can I take a screenshot of the game?
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Never! I mean, yes. Just use the Print
Screen button and the game screen will
be saved in your clipboard. This works
in Linux? :P

#2 The game runs too slow on my PC.
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Liar! But, does it matter? :P

#3 I can't many any progress in this game.
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I do deliver walkthroughs to...
"special" friends. ;)

#4 I can't pause during the game.
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Make sure you put your whole head in
front of the shotgun. Thank you!

#5 The story makes no sense. I must
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know why, when, where. And the game
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needs a murder mistery!
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Oh, for Pete's sake!

#6 Was this section really necessary?
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No.


6. Version updates
==================

Version 1.2 (07.06.2008) - A gameplay critical
bug fixed. One of the game triggers wasn't reset 
properly once you executed it in one game. If you 
played a new game after that action has been
triggered in any of the previous games or after 
you loaded a saved game with this trigger 
changed, you were able to finish the game 
without having to execute this action that was 
solved (triggered) in a previous game.


7. Contact
==========

Email: lachie13@yahoo.com
Websites: http://lachie.phatcode.net
          http://games.freebasic.net
          http://games.freebasic.net/forum

Feel free to contact me regarding adoption, 
money donations (oh, yes), this project, or 
game design in general (if you really have
to).











