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Copyright © 2003, 2004 Bojan Urosevic & Irena Urosevic / Space Ewe Software
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support e-mail: support@space-ewe.com
Contents


Overview

"Bud Redhead - The Time Chase" is a side scroll jump'n'run platform game suitable for all ages. It has 20 huge levels set in 4 different worlds: Forest, Ancient Egypt, Medieval Castles and Space Ship. At the end there is a fun Big Boss level in shoot'em up style. Game has hand drawn high resolution graphics and ambient music tracks. There is also an interesting story between worlds.

"Bud Redhead" is localized to 8 languages: English, French, German, Spanish, Swedish, Dutch, Danish and Croatian.

Free demo version is limited to the first world (5 forest levels) and to the 60 minutes of playtime.

Registering (buying) is very simple - no additional downloads are necessary! After purchasing the game, in most cases your free demo will instantly be turned into the full version. In some cases, for example if you use some payment method other than online credit card, it may be necessary to enter the registration key/code manually to turn the demo into the full version.

Requirements

Software requirements


Minimum hardware requirements


Recommended


Features


Menus

Menus can be navigated with a mouse, joystick or keyboard (arrows and enter/return). Note that joysticks are initially disabled so you must first enable them within the game to be able to use them. (F3 is a shortcut for toggling the joysticks ON and OFF)

Main menu:
NEW GAME start a new game from the beginning (from the first level of the forest world)
LOAD GAME load a saved game
PASSWORD start a new game with full lives from any level (with a correct password, of course)
OPTIONS options menu (sound, graphics, controls and language)
HISCORES show hiscore list
CREDITS show credits
EXIT exit to system

When you click on "NEW GAME" you will have to choose a slot (box) into which your game is going to be saved while playing.

Next you will be asked for your name, and then, after the first chapter of the story is shown, the game will start at the first level of the forest world.
While playing, game is automatically saved at the end of each level. You can also save the game by any checkpoint by standing in front of it and pressing the "up" key. But remember, the game will always be saved into the slot that you chose while starting it!

When you click on "PASSWORD" you will have to arrange the pictures of the game characters in the correct order to start a fresh game with full lives from the desired level. After that you will have to choose a slot into which your game is going to be saved while playing, and type in your name. The game will start with full lives from the level for which you have entered the password. Passwords are sequences of pictures. You get them after completing the level if you found all "PASSWORD" letters while playing that level.

When you click on "LOAD GAME" you will be able to choose which saved game you want to continue.


Options menu:
SOUND adjust audio settings
GRAPHICS adjust screen settings and game details
CONTROLS adjust keyboard and/or joystick
LANGUAGE sets the language
BACK go back to main menu

Sound menu:
MUSIC VOL adjust music volume
SOUND FX VOL adjust volume of the sound effects
MUSIC (F5): ON/OFF toggles music (while playing you can quickly toggle the music with the "F5" key)
SOUND FX: ON/OFF toggles sound effects
BACK go back to options menu

Graphics menu:
RESOLUTION sets the game resolution
FULLSCREEN: YES/NO toggles fullscreen mode
SET MAX FPS limit the maximum frame rate of the game (useful if the game is jerky on your computer)
SHOW FPS: YES/NO displays the frame rate
MAX BACKGROUNDS limit the maximum number of background paralax planes (useful if you have older computer)
BACK go back to options menu

Controls menu:
SENSITIVITY sets how sensitive the main character will be to your controls
KEYBOARD redefine keys
JOYSTICK joystick options and redefining buttons
BACK go back to options menu

To redefine key for an action, click on the line with the action and then press the new key you want to assign for it.

To redefine joystick button for an action, select the line with the action and push the joystick button you want to assing for it.


Controls

Menus can be navigated with a mouse, joystick or keyboard (arrows and enter/return). Note that joysticks are initially disabled so you must first enable them within the game to be able to use them. (F3)

Default keys for playing are:
LEFT ARROW walk left
RIGHT ARROW walk right
UP ARROW enter doors, enter exit portal, climb up the ropes and ladders, pull levers, save game (while standing in front of the checkpoint)
DOWN ARROW crouch, climb down the ropes and ladders
CTRL jump

You can redefine the keys:

Joysticks are also supported but you will first have to enable them within the game:
or more quickly just press F3!
Make sure that all attached joysticks are properly calibrated.

If joystick is not properly calibrated it can interfere with menu navigation. In that case press F3 to disable it, then exit the game, open Windows Control Panel and calibrate your joysticks.

Other keys:
ESC back while in menus, pause while playing
F3 enable/disable joystick
F4 minimize window
F5 music on/off
F11 take screenshot
F12 fast exit to Windows

Gameplay and Screen Layout

Gameplay is simple. In short: collect everything you can collect, jump on enemies and crates and be careful that you do not get lost! When you collect enough gold coins the exit gate will open. Find it to exit the level.

Be careful, because you cannot jump on all enemies! And if you fall into the water or electricity you will immediatelly lose a life regardless of how much energy you have.

After you exit the level bonus points will be added to your score. Every jewel you collect as well as every extra coin that you collected after the exit gate opened will bring you bonus points when you exit the level.

At the top left corner there is the number of your remaining lives and a health bar. Each life has 5 energy points which means that you can be touched by enemies five times before you lose a life. Extra lifes and extra energy can be found within the levels.   In this corner there is your current score and the number of the level you are playing in form (world-level). So for example, "LEV: 2-1" means that you are playing the first level of the second world (Egypt).
At the bottom left corner you can see which letters you still must collect to get a password. The one that are not collected are grey. When you collect a letter it becomes golden. Since the game has save game option passwords are not necessary to finish the game, but they come handy once you complete the whole game because if for example you would like to explore castle levels some more, then without passwords you would have to play all levels of the forest and Egypt world to get to the castle. With passwords you can start a new game from any level.   Bottom right corner shows how much jewels and coins you have collected. When the number near the coins is red and has a minus sign in front of it than it means that you still need to collect that many gold coins for the exit gate to open. Once you collected enough gold coins then the number near the coins is not red anymore and it shows how many extra coins you have collected. For extra coins you will get bonus points after exiting the level.

Of course there are other fun things like MANY hidden areas, tunnels, levers, doors, moving platforms and slippery surfaces.

At the end of the game you will even have to fight with the big boss by flying and shooting at it in a little space fighter.

Don't miss this great arcade adventure and find out for yourself how the story about Bud and Rachel ends. Be ready for a surprising twist near the end of the story!!!


Game tips & cheats

There are several cheats available.

To use the cheats, just type them while you are playing.
Cheats are NOT case sensitive.

Troubleshooting


Don't hesitate to contact us if you have any problem. support@space-ewe.com

How to properly install Bud Redhead for multiple users on a computer with WinXP,2000 or NT

If you do not have NTFS (NT file system) then just install the game and that's all. There are no problems with access permissions because FAT does not allow setting permissions on a per folder base.

However, if you do have NTFS then you must give modify permission for the game folder to the ordinary (limited) users so the game would get write access to its configuration files when started from those limited accounts. Otherwise, limited users will be able to play, but they won't be able to save their progress, hiscores and game settings. (Note also that save game statuses, hiscores and game settings will be the same for all users.)

Bud Redhead is NOT designed to be run by multiple users from the same computer at the same time!

To properly install the game and give modify permission for Bud's folder to ordinary users on WinNT, Win2000 or WinXP follow these steps:
  1. log in as administrator
  2. install the game
  3. run the game once (important)
  4. open "My Computer" or Windows Explorer
  5. open properties of the folder to which the game was installed (usually "C:\Program Files\Bud Redhead")
  6. click on the security tab and give modify permission to ordinary users
If you have WinXP and you do not see security tab in folder properties then choose "Tools .. Folder Options" from the menu and at the bottom of the list clear the "Simple File Sharing" checkbox.

If you later decide to register the game you must enter your registration key under administrator account to unlock the game properly.

If you still have problems contact us: support@space-ewe.com

Credits

Programming, music Graphics, level design
Bojan Urosevic Irena Urosevic

Localizations
English: Michael Springfield French: Jean-Philippe Peissard
German: Svenja Mueller Spanish: Damian Gabriel Paz
Swedish: Joakim Svensson Dutch: Tristan Hartskeerl
Danish: Per Grunnet Croatian & original English: Bojan Urosevic

Thanks to (in surname alphabetical order):
Igor Drkulec, John Hughes, Kevin King, Olivier Lapicque,
David Laprad, Adam Nerland, Ozzy, James Saito, Mario Telzer,
and our parents.

"Bud Redhead - The Time Chase" uses MikWin for playing music.

MikWin

Bud Redhead uses MikWin library for playing music.

"MikWin.dll" is distributed under the GNU Lesser GPL. You can find the license in "MikWin" subdirectory in file COPYING.LESSER.

MikWin library used in this game is based on MikWin 3.1.10 R2 by Ozzy. Source code, including some examples of use for the MikWin DLL library R2.1 by Bojan Urosevic can be downloaded here:

MikWin R2 (by Ozzy) homepage can be found here:

More about differences between MikWin R2 and R2.1 and integrating MikWin with Bud Redhead can be found in "MikWin" subdirectory in file bud_mikwin.txt.

MikWin itself is based on "libmikmod" portable sound library, which is currently maintained by Miodrag Vallat.

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