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STAR WARS SHADOWS OF THE EMPIRE: GRAPHIC ADVENTURE
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TECH DEMO v. 1.0
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January 1, 2005 (Epic new year!)
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UNOFFICIAL FREEWARE FANGAME

by Death Star Games
http://dsgames.guerrestellari.net
(dsgames@guerrestellari.net)

Made with ADVENTURE GAME STUDIO by Chris Jones
http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/

AGS runtime Linux Port Maintained by Shawn Walker
http://drevil.warpcore.org/ags/

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HOW TO INSTALL
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	Windows install ----------------------------------------------
- Extract the archive into a folder
- Double click the main exe icon (sote_td.exe)
- Play :)
	Linux install ------------------------------------------------
- Extract the archive into a writable directory (example: "~/SOTE_TD")
- Move to the installation directory (cd ~/SOTE_TD)
- Set permissions (chmod +x sote_td.sh)
- Start game (./sote_td.sh)
- Play :)
	Shared install (advanced users)-------------------------------
- Extract the archive into a directory on a shared partition, writable
  by both operating systems (such as a FAT partition mounted rw)
- Look at the "sharedinstall.sh" script, edit it to fit your needs and
  then execute it
	
	 
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HOW TO PLAY
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Left click, right click, use your brain with the screen...
Oh, damn. See the Tutorial included in the game itself. It's full of gags,
we've spent hours on it, don't expect us to repeat everything here!
Anyway, our game is sooooo user-friendly. You'll understand everything,
never get stuck and live happy.
Tum de dum.

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CONTENT ADVISORY
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This Tech Demo contains an insane amount of gags. Take it carefully. And
it's packed with an even more insane amount of quotes from classic
adventures and movies. When you don't laugh, it's not our fault: it's
yours.
The final game will feature a more subtle humour.

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LINUX NOTES
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There a strange problem with the Linux AGS runtime. The game crashes
before the end titles, and we didn't find any way to correct this.
We have contacted the port mantainer and we're waiting for some
indications or fixes to release a patch. Watch out our website or
write us a mail if you wanna be informed when a fix is available.
Additionally, remember that if you can't run SOTE at all you must
be missing some libraries dynamic linked with the interpreter. 
Try to install the libesd0 and 
libarts packages if you have troubles.


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DISCLAIMER (serious stuff)
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STAR WARS SHADOWS OF THE EMPIRE: GRAPHIC ADVENTURE 
UNOFFICIAL FREEWARE FANGAME 

Star Wars, Shadows of the Empire, Death Star and all other names,
characters, situations, music related to Star Wars are registered
trademarks of Lucasfilm L.t.d., LucasBooks, George Lucas, John Williams
and all other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. 

Death Star Games is NOT affiliated in any way to Lucasfilm L.t.d. We
don't intend to break any copyright. Death Star Games and Shadows of
the Empire: Graphic Adventure are no-profit fan made works; the fangame
is distribuited for free. Death Star Games is NOT responsible for any
eventual selling of the game that should be considered always
unauthorized. In order to prevent that possibility, the program
contains explicit statements of its no-profit nature from the title screen. 

The fangame project may exist thanks to the tolerance policy applied with
farsightedness by Lucasfilm L.t.d. to no-profit initiatives like this,
that require an enormous amount of non paid work of passion that doesn't
damage in any way the legal rights owners. This tolerance policy is
in fact the same that applies to all websites dedicated to the Star Wars
universe, which provide copyrighted material: the common trait is the
free sponsorization of the Star Wars mark than fans carry on, spreading
their knowledge and love for the saga. 
If these projects would be stopped, the fandom would collapse carrying
with it the Star Wars economical success. 
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LICENSES & ADDITIONAL CREDITS:

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.

You'll find the respective license files in the DOCS directory of this
game.


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INTRO
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What's Shadows of the Empire? What's a graphic adventure? What's SOTE GA?
Answers to those questions can be found on Death Star Games' website. You
know, "readme" files must be small. Who's supposed to actually read them?
We'd be surprised if anyone would be reading this very words right now.
Play!


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Davide "Boba Fonts" Canavero
- project leader - screenplay - background art - sprites and animation
- sound design - DSGames website 
	homepage www.guerrestellari.net 

Dario "Dusk" Scarpa
- programming - AGS scripting 
	homepage www.duskzone.it 

Professor Epic
- dialogue design - screenplay co-writing (but the demo is HIS work)
- playtesting 

thanks to: 

V-Twins
- Additional cutscene animation - Poser reference models
- Death Star Games Logo design - translation supervision
	homepage www.v-twins.it 

Mar'lin Ossian
- Poser reference models - playtesting 

Lord Gas, the Waxen
- Italian to English translation
	homepage www.waxen.it

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CONTACT US
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What do you think of this wonderful piece of cr... software?
Let us know at:
dsgames@guerrestellari.net

Visit our site for constant updates about the development of SW Shadows
of the Empire: Graphic Adventure:

http://dsgames.guerrestellari.net

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Do not distribute the SOTE:GA Tech Demo without this readme.txt file.
Unaltered. Thanks.