CIRQUE DE ZALE - v 1.4
by Rebecca Clements
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Thankyou for downloading or borrowing from your friend a copy of 'Cirque de Zale'. I commend you! This game was created using Adventure Game Software 2.6 (http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk). Follow the adventures of Alexander Zale as he faces various trials in a new dimension!

CHANGES

- v 1.0: First release.
- v 1.1: Many spelling, grammar, punctuation mistakes rectified.
         A few bugs sorted out (ie. giving deed to mother)
         Some sprites fixed and some talking animations made smoother.
         Ladder on island no longer visible when hatch is closed.
         More credits added
- v 1.2: Fixed one big mother of a bug.
         Corrected a few more spelling mistakes.
         Fixed Missy's animation.
         Added fish/fishing rod interaction.
- v 1.3: Fixed dog animation.
         Removed cottage door glitch.
         Fixed fisherman bug.
- v 1.4: Fixed a small scripting problem that was in the original template.

GETTING STARTED 

- All you should need to do is open cirque.exe. You may need to use winsetup.exe if you have any problems.

- Make sure music.vox is included in the same directory as the game, otherwise you won't hear the amazing musical score.

TROUBLESHOOTING 

- If you have any problems, please email me at: kinoko@uq.net.au

- If you're playing the game and you get an error message, please copy down and email me as much of the message as exactly as you can (and the details of what action you were performing when the error occured if you can) and I should be able to figure out what has happened.

- One problem you may encounter (though it's unlikely) is the game simply not starting when you open cirque.exe. This may be due to a conflict with your soundcard or some other software you have, but is often fixed by simply using ctrl + alt + del to close the program, and then trying again. It should work the second time. For some reason, on some computers, the game just won't start the first time you open it after having turned your computer on. I'm not sure why this is, but if trying a second time doesn't fix it, let me know at the above email address.

- If any real problems occur, try pressing Alt + x to end the game abruptly. You will lose any unsaved changes in doing so.

PLAYING THE GAME

- This game is a standard 'point and click' style adventure game. Use the menu at the bottom of the screen to control Alexander's actions.

- To SAVE, RESTORE or QUIT, press F5.

- To skip certain cutscenes, press ESC.

- Pressing any key or mouse button will skip text.

HINTS

- Try looking any everything for hints on how to tackle a problem!

- Talk to everyone. Everyone!

- Make sure you check out your surroundings well. You may have missed something.

NO, NO, I WANT TO CHEAT. TELL ME WHAT TO DO NEXT!

- Go to http://www.agsforums.com/yabb/index.php?board=7
This will take you to the hints forum of http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/ and you can post your query here. Your question may have been posted here already. I will not answer emails asking for in-game help. As yet, there is no official walkthrough however primus, the dear old soot has taken the liberty:

WALKTHROUGH
http://www.agagames.com/agswalkthroughs/soldb.php?cmd=showGame&id=100
What a nice old chap.

Have fun and thankyou for giving Cirque de zale your precious time and attention!

Rebecca Clements
kinoko@uq.net.au
http://www.anime.com.au/Katt/

THANKS TO

- 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

- TrueType font display uses ALFont by Javier Gonzalez and the Freetype project. Distributed under the terms of the FreeType project license.

- Chris Jones, of course, for creating one of the most wonderful programs I've ever had the pleasure to use.