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NEOPHYTE: The Spirit Master Demo
This is not a game, really. It has no story. It has no way to keep score.
It does have a heroine and a monster. Your goal is simple: kill or be killed.
Walk through the village. Admire the shade. Talk to the colorful local...
gardeners. When you are ready, head to the east and battle King Lobster.
SPECIAL NOTE: This version of the program is configured to run in 512x384 mode.
If your video card cannot handle this mode, please see the instructions at the
end of this file on how to change the video mode of this program.
REQUIREMENTS:
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- Pentium computer
- 8MB of ram.
- svga card with at least 1MB of video ram. It must support 16 bit
color in 640x480, or 512x384.
- 15MB of free hard drive space.
- DirectX 5.0 or later. This can be downloaded from
http://www.microsoft.com or http://www.aliensoft.com
RECOMMENDATIONS:
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- Pentium 200MHZ or faster
- 16MB of ram or more
- hardware accelerated PCI video card with at least 2MB of memory.
- 16 bit windows compatible sound card and good speakers.
1. Controlling Neika:
You can use the keyboard or joypad to control Neika. Here is a summary
of commands:
Command Keyboard Joystick
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Move Arrow keys or Dir-Pad
Numerical keypad
Use Magic Alt Button 1
Attack* Space Button 3
Talk Space Button 3
Run X Button 4
Use Fig Seed S
Display Poetry M
Exit/Resume ESC
*Neika will perform a special attack against the monsters, but will do
a normal attack against the air. When near an NPC, Neika will talk to
him instead.
The mouse can be used in the menu. Click on the menu item to select it.
3. Known Bugs
- This demo is designed as a full screen immersive standalone program.
You may experience difficulties if you attempt to ALT-TAB to other programs.
If you discover any bugs with the demo, please send them to neophyte@aliensoft.com.
Please be as complete as possible about what happened to cause the bug.
4. About Alien Software
Alien Software is a radical departure from your typical game publishing
houses. Elsewhere, you have adults acting like teenagers and trying to
figure out what you want. Here, we ARE teenagers. The art and
programming of Neophyte was done almost entirely by people from 15 to 21
years of age (OK, we had some help from a few adults, but we did all the
hard stuff).
We can be reached at Alien Software, 9140 Guilford Rd, Suite O,
Columbia, Maryland, 21046, or e-mail us at neophyte@aliensoft.com.
5. Credits
Programming:
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Gregg Berson
John Corwin
Charlei Culver
John Hicks
Steve Huang
Mark Walsh
Mike Young
Art:
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Sven Dixon (Lead Artist)
Annette Gagne'
Music/Sound Effects:
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Mitch Brink
Check out his web page: http://www.geocities.com/~mitchb2
Additional Sound Effects:
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John Riston
Sven Dixon
Mike Young
Designers:
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Sven Dixon
Wayne Moore
Mike Young
Producer:
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Mike Young
Executive Producer:
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Wayne Moore
Special Thanks To:
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Microcosm, Inc.
6. Copyright
The Neophyte: The Spirit Master Demo is copyright (C) 1998, Alien Software. All
rights reserved. You have permission to distribute this demo freely as long as
you distribute all of the files included in this demo as one package.
7. Instructions on changing video mode
Open the file config.cfg in notepad.exe. It has three lines:
fullscreen = 1
screenx = 512
screeny = 384
You can switch between fullscreen and windowed mode by setting fullscreen to 1
and 0 respectively.
screenx and screeny control the resolution. To make the program run in 640x480,
replace the current lines with:
screenx = 640
screeny = 480