Outlandish Move アウトランディッシュ・ムーブ

Version 1.1

[edit] Basic Help

To advance through the game, left-click or press the space or enter keys. When at a menu, left-click to make a choice, or use the arrow keys to select a choice and enter to activate it.

[edit] Game Menu

When playing a game, right-click or press the escape key to enter the game menu. The game menu gives the following choices:

Return

Returns to the game.

Save Game

Allows you to save a game by clicking on a save slot.

Load Game

Allows you to load a game by clicking on a save slot. Clicking on "Auto" accesses the automatic save slots.

Preferences

Changes the game preferences (options/configuration):

Display

Switches between fullscreen and windowed mode.

Transitions

Controls the display of transitions between game screens.

Text Speed

Controls the rate at which text displays. The further to the right this slider is, the faster the text will display. All the way to the right causes text to be shown instantly.

Joystick

Lets you control the game using a joystick.

Skip

Chooses between skipping messages that have been already seen (in any play through the game), and skipping all messages.

Begin Skipping

Returns to the game, while skipping.

After Choices

Controls if skipping stops upon reaching a menu.

Auto-Forward Time

Controls automatic advance. The further to the left this slider is, the shorter the amount of time before the game advances. All the way to the right means text will never auto-forward.

Music, Sound, and Voice Volume

Controls the volume of the Music, Sound effect, and Voice channels, respectively. The further to the right these are, the louder the volume.

Main Menu

Returns to the main menu, ending the current game.

Help

Shows this help screen.

Quit

Exits the game; the game will be closed and ended.

[edit] Key and Mouse Bindings

Left-click, Enter

Advances through the game, activates menu choices, buttons, and sliders.

Space

Advances through the game, but does not activate choices.

Arrow Keys

Selects menu choices, buttons, and sliders.

Ctrl

Causes skipping to occur while the ctrl key is held down.

Tab

Toggles skipping, causing it to occur until tab is pressed again.

Mousewheel-Up, PageUp

Causes rollback to occur. Rollback reverses the game back in time, showing prior text and even allowing menu choices to be changed.

Mousewheel-Down, PageDown

Causes rollforward to occur, cancelling out a previous rollback.

Right-click, Escape

Enters the game menu. When in the game menu, returns to the game.

Middle-click, H

Hides the text window and other transient displays.

F

Toggles fullscreen mode

S

Takes a screenshot, saving it in a file named screenshotxxxx.png, where xxxx is a serial number.

Alt-H, Command-H

Hides (iconifies) the window.

Alt-F4, Command-Q

Quits the game.

Delete

When a save slot is selected, deletes that save slot.

[edit] Legal Notice

This game uses source code from a number of open source projects. For a list, and a location where the source code can be downloaded from, please view the LICENSE.txt file in the renpy directory, or visit http://www.renpy.org/wiki/renpy/License .

Credits

Written by
Darlo - http://outlandishmove.wordpress.com

Programmed in
Ren’Py - http://www.renpy.org/

Testers and Language Checkers
Shehzaan Abdulla
Ai Asano
Matthew Bilton
Chantelle Ejimofo
Tom Emmott
Shiori Harada
Julianne Medrano
Rin Mogami - http://tearslab.blog.fc2.com/
Brad Ramos
Keri Stenerson
Ayaka Waki
Andy Yang
最上　凛 - http://www.cybercube.org/
Takibe English Conversation Club
The 2013 Graduating Students of Hohoku Junior High School

Character Images Kindly Provided by
Bubblesey (Michelle & みちこ) - http://bubblesey.deviantart.com/
Yon Yon Yon (Mrs Harris) - http://yondamoegi.deviantart.com/
Fioricca (Wayne) - http://lemmasoft.renai.us/forums/viewtopic.php?f=54&t=17026
Widget (お母さん) - http://lemmasoft.renai.us/forums/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=13353
Chris Hernandez (Spy)
Darlo (Spy)

Background and Object Images Kindly Provided by
Bob Bowyer - http://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/1474
Cayoup - http://www.flickr.com/photos/cayoup/
Marie Darlington
Mark Donna - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:MarkDonna
Peter Evans - http://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/13112
f.x.l - http://www.flickr.com/photos/f_x_l/
Tim Green - http://timgreenfromqueensbury.blogspot.com/
Heather on her Travels - http://www.heatheronhertravels.com/
David P Howard - http://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/43368
Danny Howard - http://dannyman.toldme.com/
Immediate Entourage - http://www.immediateentourage.com/
Muyu - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Muyo
Pumbaa08 - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pumbaa80
Sam Ose - http://www.samose.org/
ŠJů - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:%C5%A0J%C5%AF
Stacina - http://www.flickr.com/photos/staci/
Darlo

Game Font by
Mika-chan - http://www001.upp.so-net.ne.jp/mikachan/

Special Thanks
The 2013 Graduating Students of Hohoku Junior High School for being the first group to play a completed version of the game and giving helpful feedback. I wish you the best of luck after graduation.
Shiori Harada for being a good sport and a great teacher to work with.
Comic Space 小倉 (http://www.comic-space.com/) for providing me an excellent environment to work in over the weekends, and for helping in the search of native Japanese speakers to test the game.
The Members of the Lemma Soft Forums (http://lemmasoft.renai.us/forums/) for their words of support and being a brilliant hub for aspiring game makers, with many tutorials as well as people to help with characters.
Cartoonized.net (http://www.cartoonized.net) for this brilliant tutorial which helped in the appearance of the Spy.
Gay Kendrick for helping me with information about the history of the BRJ school.