readme.txt Kudos-Rock Legend by Cliffski (Positech Games)
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May 2007.

This game was designed and coded by one guy, working full time - Cliff Harris, an indie developer from the UK. He used to work at Elixir and Lionhead, and before that he built boats and taught people to play the guitar.

disclaimer:
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we make no warranty whatsoever that this software is safe to run on any machine. even though is almost entirely impossible that our software would cause you any problems, we accept no responsibility if it indirectly burns down your house or causes you to spontaneously combust or any other problems of any kind whatsoever. You run it at your own risk.
But seriously, it doesn't do anything clever, it doesn't even use the registry. The chances of this game interfering with other software you have is
pretty much zero.

licence and legal gubbins:
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the user is granted a licence by us to run this software, enjoy it, and even show it to friends. You don't have the freedom to make copies for other people. The software is copyright 2007 positech computing. its an original work, we made it, don't steal it. The term 'Kudos' is trademarked by Positech Games. The artwork and sounds in this game are protected by copyright. It is strictly forbidden to reuse any of the artwork or sounds craeted for this game in commerical or freeware products.
You can freely copy the DEMO version for your friends. If you want to back it up onto CD for your own use, thats fine, even use it on 2 machines if you have 2 machines,
but don't rip us off ok? We aren't Sony or EA, we need the money. We don't put any annoying copy protection junk on our software, so return the favour and if you like it, please buy it. My cats need food and so do I. If you like the game, persuade your friends to buy it too. This game is pretty cheap, by ensuring people do not pirate it, you ensure that we can afford to make more games like it in future.


Tech Support
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Problems running the game? KRL should work on most PCs bought in 2005 onwards. If the game crashes on startup, or gives a directx error, then you need to
1) check you have the very latest drivers for your video card. You need to download and install them from the video card manufacturers website
2) check your PC for viruses, spyware, adware etc. There are free programs on the internet that do this
3) defrag your PC hard drive
4) close *All* other programs that are running at the same time, just in case
5) reboot, you'll be suprised what works after a simple reboot :D

Credits
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Cliff did all the design, and all the code, and lots of the art. Jan Ove-Leksell did the artwork for the gig backdrops. Julianne Regan is the singer on the title music. Some sound effects and music arrangements were done by Jean-Marc Lederman. Caroline 'ginny' Saunders offered some creative advice. Charlie Connors had the original idea to do a music-biz game. Ichiro and Jack Norton did some testing. The characters were rendered using Poser 6 from curious labs, with some content from daz3d. Some of the guitar bits are played by cliff. The guy clearing his throat during rehearsals is cliff. All those pictures on the credits page really are pictures of the people who worked on the game. Scary isn't it?

build notes
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1.0 (May 2007): A fresh, clean, innocent build. hurrah!

1.01: Fixed error message about 'Flip' when toggling between programs
      Made tooltips less sensitive to jittery mice
      Removed the click anywhere feature for hint windows.
      Fixed inability to scoll song list in new album screen
      Added enter key shortcut to start practice session
      Sped up particle system and hopefully fixed bug with random triangles being rendered.
      Fixed bug where old games band name got reused
      Fixed number of years elapsed not being tracked if you restart after finishing,
      Fixed bug causing failure to load save game if you loaded or started again after having a game with a released album, then saved and loaded!
      New Button Graphics (button.dds, button_h.dds, button_close.dds, button_close_h.dds)
      Changed 'Purchase' to 'Buy iT!' on shopping screen
      Albums now dissapear from desktop once listened to
      Changed tooltip for songwriting button to be more clear.
      The book a gig screen doesn't take up a whole day now unless you actually book a gig.
      Fixed bug where laoding in a game meant the calender may show wrong date for the first day
      Fixed bug where previous games 'mode' is shown as a new games introduction.

1.02: Fixed missing texture bug on load game screen

1.03  Added option to buy lots of 500 t-shirts
      DELETE key now blanks out album,song,band and avatar names
      Album title editing bug fixed
      Confirmation message added when firing a band member
      Added option to continue playing forever once the game ends
      Fixed crash bug if you fire the whole band, then attend an ineffective publicity event
      
1.04  Made the GUI skin arrows only enabled when they are usable on the new game screen
      Added explanatory text under the skin chooser in new game screen
      Fixed demo so it really does save the game when it ends!
      Removed two instances of '£' used instead of '$'

