Saturn's Child
readme.txt
July 15, 2014

Saturn's Child
An Interactive Fiction Game
Release 1.0

By Jerry Ford
Pleasant Hill, California
jerry.o.ford@gmail.com

I. ZIP Bundle Contents

The Saturn's Child Zip bundle contains this readme, the game file (.t3), and Map and 
Walkthroughs folders: 

Map           A map of the game world in PNG format.

Walkthroughs   2 walkthroughs. The game allows the player to choose to play as 
               male or female; there is a walkthrough for each. 

               NOTE: The Walkthroughs\readme.txt contains spoiler information. 
               Don't read it until you're ready to have the surprises revealed.
               
II. Game Play

Saturn's Child was developed using the TADS3 Interactive Fiction development platform. It requires a TADS3 compatible interpreter that supports TADS version 3.1.3. Not all interpreters that claim TADS3 support can open this latest version of TADS. 

Get a workable TADS3 interpreter from this web page: http://www.tads.org/t3dl/pksetup.exe

There is an in-game hint system which is intended 
to answer all questions---somewhat obtusely at first, but if you continue to 
drill down in the collection of hints, the solution should be clearly and 
explicitly described.

At any time during game play, enter the command "hint" to see any hints that 
are available about your current location and puzzle (though not all locations 
have hint topics available). 

A third layer of help can be accessed by entering the command "extra on." 
When extra help is enabled, the game engine will generate help tips 
spontaneously if it senses the player is having difficulty. Enter the 
command "extra off" to cancel this layer of help.