
                       THE GARDEN SOCIETY: KYKUIT README

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~Table of Contents~

i. Forward
I. About The Garden Society: Kykuit
II. How to Run Garden Society
III. How to Play Garden Society
IV. Credits & Legal Stuff
V. Disclaimer

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i. Forward
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Hi there!

Thanks for taking an interest in my game. As the second game to be 
developed, I've done a few things differently from my first release, 
Amgine Park. Notably, this game is purely black and white but even more 
importantly, there is a multicultural cast. 

Another interesting fact is that this game was made within the one month 
deadline of the first annual NaNoRenO event in March 2005. Due to that 
time constraint, I was planning on releasing this game without music - 
but luckily, I had enough time to enter some in.

Even though it was a bit hectic, I managed to add some extras much like 
you would find in Amgine Park plus, I'm happy to say, there are even 
more Easter Eggs in this game!
 
Later!
~Rio 

P.S. For those of you who know Spanish, please know that I am aware 
of the lack of accents and/or tilde's, in certain words. I basically 
didn't bother setting Unicode Text Font. If you're highly 
sensitive to spelling errors (even if it's not your native tongue),
then I highly suggest you don't play this game. Seriously.

P.P.S. FOr those of you interested in learning more about Kykuit, you 
can find more info at the following web sites:
http://www.hudsonvalley.org/web/kyku-main.html
http://www.sculpture.org/documents/parksdir/p&g/kykuit/kykuit.htm
http://historictraveler.away.com/primedia/arts_arch/kykuit_1.adp



I. About The Garden Society
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Synopsis: Transfer student and new member of the Garden Society, will you 
be able to fit in? Make friends? ...Or something more?

~Requirements & Additional Info~

Released: March 29, 2005
Credits: 
- Rio (characters, script, editing, etc)
- May (background pics)
- JestaAridane (music, for more of her music, visit her site at....
http://www.angeltowns.net/membercenter/100/jellicle/music/main.html)
- Made with Ren'Py (http://www.bishoujo.us/renpy/)

Rating: Everyone
Playtime: 20 minutes +/-

Platform: Windows, Linux
Hardware Requirements: 25 MB free disk space

Endings: 8 endings total. 3 are common and the rest are harder to get 
unless you're extremely lucky or are just naturally suave. ^_^

I would like to thank the following people:
Chronoluminaire, PyTom, and the folks at Lemmasoft for their 
comments and suggestions.



II. How to Run The Garden Society
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The directions to run this game vary depending on if you are using
Windows or one of the other supported platforms.


~Windows~

Garden Society should work with Windows 98 or higher.

To run it, simply run the gardensociety1.exe excutable in the directory
containing the unzipped archive. After a few seconds, the game will
start running.


~Other Platforms~

Running this game on other platforms is more involved. You'll need to
ensure that python 2.3 or greater is installed, and that the pygame
libraries have been downloaded.

Assuming that you've managed to satisfy the prerequisites, however,
actually running the game is simple. You just need to run
gardensociety1.py. We personally do that on Linux with a command like:

    python gardensociety1.py

After a few seconds, the game should start running.

For Mac users, there are several more steps that you have to follow:

1. Download the files here: http://www.bishoujo.us/renpy/dl/macdeps/
They are...
 A. pygame-1.7.0-py2.3-macosx10.3.zip, 
 B. pyobjc-1.3b1-py2.3-macosx10.3.zip, and 
 C. run_game.pyw   

2. The zip files should automatically install itself. If not, 
uncompress them manually. Install PyObjC first, and pygame second.
Note: You only have to do this once. If you already did this to play 
another Ren'Py-made game, you don't have to do it again.

3. After that, run the gardensociety1.pyw file and the game will start. 
If an error occurs, a traceback will appear. Please send that traceback 
to me at rio@renaigames.com so we can debug it.

**Known Mac Bug**
Moving the mouse in fullscreen mode may leave artifacts on the screen. 
Switching Ren'Py to windowed mode seems to fix this. You can make 
the change by pressing the 'f' key. 

For up-to-date info on Mac support, please visit the Mac Ren'Py page:
http://www.bishoujo.us/renpy/mac.html



III. How to Play The Garden Society
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By default, the game starts running in full screen mode. On some
computers, especially some virtual machines, this can lead to mouse
problems. To fix this, press 'f' while the splashscreen is
displaying. 


Some of the more interesting actions can be performed as follows:

- The left mouse button is used to advance to the next line of
  dialogue, or to pick menu options.

- The right mouse button brings you into a menu screen where you can
  save the game, load the game, change preferences, return to the main
  menu, or quit entirely.

- Scrolling the mouse wheel up or pushing page up returns you to the
  previous screen of dialogue or menus.

- Holding down the CTRL key skips dialogue. By default, it only
  skips read dialogue, but this can be changed by a preference. Tab
  toggles skip mode.


If you have any problems, you may contact Rio at renaigames.com



IV. Credits & Legal Stuff
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The Garden Society: Kykuit was made by Rio using the Ren'Py engine.
Big thanks to PyTom for making it and allowing me to use his 
instructions on how to run and play the game. If you would like more 
info on Ren'Py, go to http://www.bishoujo.us/renpy/

You may distribute this game privately, but if you wish to post it on 
the Internet, you must get permission from Rio.

Currently, the only two places you may get this game are sites with 
"ren'ai" in them: www.renaigames.com and www.renai.us (Ren'ai Archives).  



V. Disclaimer
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By using this software, you agree that Rio and Ren'ai Games WILL NOT be 
held liable for any damage that may occur. To the knowledge of the maker, 
this program is not intended to harm your computer in any way. Use this 
program at your own risk.

For those of you who know Spanish, please know that I am aware 
of the lack of accents and/or tilde's, in certain words. I basically 
didn't bother setting Unicode Text Font. If you're highly 
sensitive to spelling errors (even if it's not your native tongue),
then I highly suggest you don't play this game. Otherwise, I'm not 
responsible for any bouts of anger, other similar emotion, or any
action resulting from them.


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