-----------The amazing adventures of Frank The Farmhand------------
----------------------Part 1; The Big Escape-----------------------

<version 1.03>

040511: Fixes since 1.02
* Crash when using disguise again.
* Enabled anti-aliasing for those you want to use it.

040419: Fixes since 1.01
* Crash when giving inventory to cleaning lady
* Any object on shoppingbag doesn't work any more (Sorry! Muahaha.)
* Some grammatic errors fixed
* Icons for the exe and setup added

040414: Fixes since 1.00
* the spreading legs in dialogs is fixed
* A rare fatal error when looking at trash fixed
* Bug when using knife on Frank fixed

Table Of Contents:

1. What is Frank the Farmhand?
2. How to play
    2.1 Command Keys and shortcuts
3. Known issues
4. Hints
5. Contact



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1. What is Frank the Farmhand?

Thanks for downloading Frank the Farmhand.

Frank the Farmhand is a graphics-adventuregame. It tells the story about
a young man called Frank who's really a farmhand but is not content with it. When he comes to school one day he finds that his favorite teacher, professor Conrad Push is missing. And there's some mysterious agents in his office. Frank of course have to investigate and soon finds himself in deep trouble.

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2. How to play

You proceed in the game by solving puzzles and by doing that helping Frank to accomplish the things he needs to do. To solve puzzles you need to interact with the environments. This you do by clicking on the "verbs" on the bottom of the screen and then on the things you want to interact with.

Example: If you see a man on the screen and want to talk to him you press the "talk to" verb and then on the man noting that at the top of the screen there's a text saying what you're about to do, "Talk to man".

The string of text at the top is very important, because everything that you can interact with will appear with a name in that string of text when the mousecursor is over it.

You can also pick things up using the "pick up"-verb. The things you've picked up will appear in the inventory on the right side of the verbs. The inventory screen can display up to four objects at the same time, and some arrows will appear to able you to scroll up and down through your inventory when you have more than four objects. Inventory items are crucial in your puzzlesolving and you can use them with other things as well as with other inventoryitems by using the "Use"-verb.

When you talk to other characters you will often get clues or other important information. So talk frequently with people! When in dialog your dialog options will be shown at the bottom of the screen, so simply press on the thing you want to say to a person and Frank will say it.

2.1 Command keys and shortcuts

Save Game _______ F5
Restore Game_____ F7
Quit Game________ Alt+F4

Look at__________ L
Use______________ U
Talk to__________ T
Pick up__________ P
Give_____________ G
Push_____________ Y
Pull_____________ S
Open_____________ O
Close____________ C

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3. Known issues

040413: A bug in the AGS-engine makes Frank spread his legs sometimes
after he's said something. I've been in contact with Chris Jones (the creator of AGS) and we're working on a way of solving this.
040414: The bug above has been solved. (Thank you, Chris!)

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4. Hints


*Talk to everyone and listen closely to what they say.
*If you don't know what's so special about something then look at it.
*Try to use everything you've got on everything (if you're desperate).

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5. Contact

Mattias Jeppsson:

mattias.jeppsson@bolina.hsb.se
fovmester@hotmail.com
f02mj@efd.lth.se

Homepage:
fovart.tk

or

http://www.freewebs.com/fovmester


Thanks for playing Frank the Farmhand

Have fun.