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|            Mini Golf Master v1.3          |
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| "Golf that is too serious to be serious"  |
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While Fun Games

http://www.whilefun.com
twitter: @whilefun
info@whilefun.com

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|     Instructions    |
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If you've ever played mini golf or regular golf, you're good to go. Otherwise, there's some quick learning to be done on the "Instructions" screen from main "Game Setup" menu.

Players: 1-4 local single or multiplayer
Holes: Front 9, Back 9, or All 18

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| System Requirements |
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-SVGA+ Graphics card and compatible plug and play monitor
-16MB of RAM
-Creative Sound Blaster, Adlib, or equivalent sound card
-15MB free HDD space
-IBM or equivalent mouse capable of Left Click
-'S' key, if you want to see the scoreboard during the hole
-4X CD-ROM Drive*

*If you purchased the Mini Golf Master Deluxe CD-ROM Edition

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|       Overview      |
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Mini Golf Master is a very serious mini golf game. Too serious, in fact. Ridiculous, even. It's a mini golf game made for hardcore golfers who like the Masters and other PGA tournaments. Or for those who kind of like golf, and want to have a good laugh at the formality of it all. Features Photorealistic Graphics(TM), rich stereo sound effects, and a modern user interface. Available now on 15x1.44MB Floppy diskettes, or CD-ROM.

I made the game with some of my old favourites in mind. Basically, this is an homage to the "Requires SVGA, comes on 8 1.4" disketts"-era games from the likes of Accolade and other early PC game companies. I had a blast back then, and I had a blast making this now. I hope you enjoy it.

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|   Other Background  |
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-This game was made as an entry for the Nov-Dec 2012 tigsource compo/jam: http://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?board=52.0
-Here's my game development thread: http://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=29422.0
-And "finished game" post: http://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=29735.msg822374#msg822374

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|    Known Issues     |
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> Sometimes collisions between the ball and other objects (mainly wall corner bits) causes a collision "stick". To work around this, simply restart the hole.
> Sometimes the ball gets stuck in the sand and no longer recognizes that the player can shoot again. To work around this, simply restart the hole.
> Player Names and Difficulty level selections are not required. This was more so for those who don't want to bother and just want to jump in and practice or play a quick round

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|  Updates for v1.3   |
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> Made menus work with the mouse. Click to activate menu item, move mouse to switch menu items (rather than keyboard only)

1.2:
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> Player turn now ordered properly hole over hole. Winner from previous hole now shoots first.

1.1:
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> Player Difficulty setting now defaults to Amateur (Selecting Pro still makes you cooler)
> Amateur difficulty makes trees more transparent, for high densely wooded holes (Pro remains "v1.0" transparency all the time)
> Par scores have been adjusted
> Current high (low?) score for all 18 holes is 35 (held by whilefun)

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|  Resources Credits  |
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Menu Music:
"Easy Lemon 30 second" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/


Happy Golfing!

Cheers,
Richard