
                               ORIGAMO
                                 QQP
                              FULL DOCS

Requirments:
                      386SX computer or better
                      Hard drive
                      Super VGA card and monitor
                      3.5 Floppy drive


INTRO:

Origamo will keep track of up to 300 different players and 1200 unfinished
games.  Full statistics for each game are saved automatically and
effortlessly.

113 puzzles, ranging from trivial to impossible, were each carefully rated
and scored by a team of 25 play testers.  Your first time through, you may
choose the easiest puzzles as you try to escape the maze.  As you gain
expertise, you'll realize that such cowardice will never earn you a high
score.


THE MAIN MENU:

Once you skip past the title and credit screens with your left mouse button
or enter key, you'll arive in a hypnotic Japanese garden.  Enter your name
and press ENTER to uncover the scene.  Floating zen like in the air is your
control panel.

You can either click on these buttons by moving your mouse over them and 
pressing the left mouse button or by using your keyboard.  Press the key 
colored in red to change the corresponding option.  To change the current
game type, use your up and down arrow keys.  Break your trance and play some
puzzles.  That's where the fun is!  You can meditate later.

PLAY:

When you choose this option, the game begins.  Make sure you have chosen the
game type you want to play.

NEW:

This allows you to either clear the current game or to let your friends play.
You can either enter the name of the new player or press enter and choose 
from a list.  If you choose your own name, you are given the opportunity
to erase all saved information about yourself.  Be careful!

SOUND:

You can choose music and sound effects, sound effects only or no sound.

INPUT:

Choose either mouse or keyboard input.  With keyboard input, the arrow keys
move the mouse cursor and the space and enter keys act like the mouse button.

GAME TYPE:

If you press F3, the high score screen for the current game type will be
displayed.  Use the arrow keys or the mouse to choose one of four ways to
play Origamo:

Random:

Basic:

You work your way through the maze.  You have infinite lives and are 
inelligible for timed bonuses.  You must play through at least one of three
games to pass through a room.  When you have completed a puzzle a new option
will appear in the box with the other puzzle selections, selecting the
"Option to choose an adjacent room" will allow you to enter another room that
adjoins your current location.  Once you have left a room to move forward, you
will not be allowed to go back and play the puzzles you left behind.  You
may however, pass through the room to get to another location in the maze.

    HINT-WHEN YOU FIRST TRY ORIGAMO PLAY THE EASIER PUZZLES (THE ONES WITH
    THE LOWER SCORES) FIRST.

Master:
 
If you beat the average time in a puzzle, you receive a bonus.  You only 
have to play through one game to pass through a room, but in order to get
the high scores, you may want to play more than one puzzle in any of the
rooms.  When you have completed a puzzle, selecting the "Option to choose
an adjacent room" will allow you to enter another room that adjoins your
current location.

Adventure:

The option for Origamo experts.  You only receive three lives.  You may pass
through a room playing only a single game, but you have the opportunity to
go back and play a puzzle in rooms that you didn't attemt the first time in
this room.  When you have completed a puzzle a new option will appear in the
box with the other puzzle selections, selecting the "Option to choose an
adjacent room" will allow you to enter another room that adjoins your current
location.  Keep track of your lives, because once you run out of lives....
the game is over!  You are not eligible for time bonus points in adventure
play.  You receive a free life for each 500 points that you earn.

    HINT-ON THE TOUGHER PUZZLES, YOU MUST QUICKLY COVER A PATICULAR 
    PATTERN TO SUCCEED.

THE MAZE:

The surrealistic maze of eternity has a way of stealing hours from your life.
The premise is simple - exit the maze through the exit.  Unfortunately, some
difficult puzzles and uncooperative denizens of the catacombs stand in your
way.

The room you are in currently is shown in yellow.  If a room has no puzzles
associated with it or if you have won all games in that room, it is shown in
red.  Use the arrow keys or mouse to choose the room you want to move to, 
then choose the game you want to beat to earn passage.  You may also choose
the next room with the mouse.

When you move into a room, a list of the remaining games associated with that
room appears along with the points for each puzzle.  You can get rid of this
menu by pressing the right mouse button or the escape key.  If you haven't
won at least one puzzle in this room, you will be returned to the previous
room.

If you choose to play a game, you will be returned to the previous room 
unless you have won at least three games.  This way, you can play the easy 
games in all adjacent rooms to rack up some points before continuing on
your journey.

A bar at the top of the screen shows you where you are in the maze.  Next to
the room are up to four arrows.  These show the direction of adjacent rooms.

Some rooms are not available to you until you gather the necessary objects or
perform the necessary services.  As a hint, it all starts with a girl named
Alice and a little tea party she attended.

THE GAMES:

Pieces come in on a conveyer from the right and you use the right mouse button
to rotate them and the left button to place them.  If you allow the conveyer
to fill, you lose.  If you cover the grey tiles, you win.

You can drop a piece, you picked up by accident in the dump.  The dump is 
located on the right side of the screen.  It is elevated above the conveyer.
YOU CAN'T DROP ANOTHER PIECE UNTIL THE DUMP EMPTIES.  The dump is empty only 
when there are no pieces on the dump belt and any pieces that were falling
have actually hit the conveyer belt below.

If you cover all of the grey pieces of a paticular pattern, they crystalize
and some of the pieces cluttering the conveyer belt disappear.

Simple, right?  Give it a try and you'll see all is not as easy as it seems.
Be forwarned...this game is addicting, thus if you have anything else to do,
(housework, the bills, work...or even sleeping) do it before running the game
for the first time.


ZEUS  -=SYNDROME=-