Short:        Gilbert Goodmate early demo
Author:       Prelusion / Alive Mediasoft Ltd.
Uploader:     mikael hiltunen ostersund mail telia com (Mike Hiltunen)
Type:         game/demo
Architecture: m68k-amigaos


Description
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 This is an early demo of the adventure game "Gilbert Goodmate And The
 Mushroom of Phungoria" developed by Prelusion and published by Alive
 Mediasoft Ltd.
 For more extensive information about the game, release details and who to
 contact about what, please read the accompanying guide-file.


The story
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 Many years ago a brave hero saved the land from unavoidable destruction by
 killing the evil wizard with the help of a gigantic mushroom.
 
 Nowadays the mushroom is kept in a museum in the city of Phungoria.
 The citizens take turns guarding and preserving the mushroom from year to 
 year. Every summer a big mushroom-festival is being held, when the people 
 celebrate the ancient victory. During this cermony a new citizen is elected 
 to take the huge responsibility of keeping the mushroom safe and in good 
 shape until next year's festival.

 For nearly a year now, Gilbert's grandfather has been taking care of the
 mushroom. But one week prior to the festival, someone steals the mushroom.
 Everyone blames the grandfather for not being able to do his duty properly.
 The king throws him in jail and prepares to have him executed during the 
 festival.
 
 The only way to save his grandfather is for Gilbert to find the stolen
 mushroom before the end of the week...


Features
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 Main features:

 o 35-40 beautifully handdrawn locations.
 o 15-20 protracker modules.
 o At least 4000 frames of animation.
    (Gilbert himself is made up of over 200 frames).
 o Digitized speech for every charachter appearing in the game.
 o A very intuitive user-interface.
 o Inventory close-ups of certain objects.
 o A really entertaining storyline.

 This demo features:

 o 2 rooms.
 o 2 songs.
 o 400+ animation frames.

 Not implemented in demo:

 o The ability to talk to other characters.
 o Speech and Sound effects.
 o Load/Save functions.

 Please note that this early demo is just a work-in-progress. It's purpose is 
 solely to show some functions and features of the game. There may still be
 some bugs or unpolished animations. Also, the code is far from optimized.


Requirements
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 Gilbert Goodmate requires

 o MC68000+ processor
 o OS 1.3+
 o 2 MB RAM (at least 1 MB Chip)
 o Harddrive & CD ROM drive
 o Keyboard & Mouse

 Gilbert Goodmate utilizes (if available)

 o AA chipset
 o Faster processor
 o Extra Chip mem
 o Fast mem

 This demo requires the same as the final game (except a CD ROM drive).
 Although this demo will run from floppy, we really recommend you install
 it on the Harddrive.


Contact
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Prelusion
   URL:    http://home1.swipnet.se/~w-10215
   email:  mikael.hiltunen@ostersund.mail.telia.com

Alive Mediasoft
   URL:    www.alive.demon.co.uk
   email:  andy@alive.demon.co.uk