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Your Doodles Are Bugged! V1.0
ReadMe File
April 15th 2011
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Thank you for downloading Your Doodles Are Bugged!.




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Troubleshooting
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Video Card Requirements
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Your Doodles Are Bugged! requires a video card with DirectX 9.0c and shader model 2
support, with at least 256MB memory (or equivalent).


.NET, XNA and DirectX
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If you have trouble getting Your Doodles Are Bugged! to run: Check that you have installed
the Microsoft .NET 2.0 framework (or later), the XNA 3.1 runtime and the latest DirectX
end-user runtime. The versions required to run Your Doodles Are Bugged! have been included
with the game and should install automatically. If they do not, you can download the
latest versions from www.microsoft.com.


Saving and Loading
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If you experience problems saving and loading, check the following:

1) Do your user account settings prevent write access to the system's hard disk?
     - If so: ask the systems administrator to modify the account settings to allow
              write access.

2) Has your personal directory been moved from its default location?
     - If so: try moving the directory back to its default location.

3) Is there enough free space on the hard disk to save the game?
     - If not: delete unneeded data on the hard drive to free up space for Your Doodles
               Are Bugged! to save.


Frame Rate
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Your Doodles Are Bugged! has been optimized as much as possible to allow it to run even
on relatively low spec machines. However, especially in the levels with very many bugs
and in the Doodle Studio (if you are editing a doodle with very many elements or with a
large background image), you may experience a lower frame rate if playing on a low spec
machine. To improve the frame rate as much as possible, check the following:

1) Make sure Your Doodles Are Bugged! is the only application running on your computer.

2) Disable any automatic scans or updates whilst playing Your Doodles Are Bugged!. For
   example: Your Anti-Virus software may automatically access the internet and download
   updates while you are playing.  If you disable this functionality, remember to
   re-enable it after your gaming session.

3) Use the task manager to disable any processes that are unnecessary to the running
   and security of Windows. This is quite a technical process and should be done with
   care.

4) Make sure you have the latest drivers for your hardware (video card and motherboard
   especially).

5) If your video card comes with a custom control panel, check that you have the
   settings set for the best performance.

6) Other general hardware improvements to the cpu and memory size will also enhance
   your experience.


Full Screen Mode / Window Mode
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Your Doodles Are Bugged! runs in a video resolution with a 16:9 aspect ratio, in full
screen mode. The game tries to determine the best video resolution to run at and may use
letterboxing (black bars) if your monitor has a different aspect ratio.

On some systems the full screen mode can cause certain visual artifacts.

If necessary, you can override the full screen mode and play the game in window mode,
by supplying the "-window" command line option. For example:

    "C:\Program Files\Your Doodles Are Bugged!\YourDoodlesAreBugged.exe" -window

If you have the Steam version of the game, then you can enable the window mode via the
launch options: In the Steam client, open the "Properties" dialog for Your Doodles Are
Bugged!, then select the "General" tab, then click the "Set Launch Options" button and
enter "-window" (without the quotes) into the edit box. Submit with "OK".

On some systems, while playing in full screen mode, you may experience problems after
switching the focus to another Windows program and then back to the game (for example
by ALT-tabbing to a different window). In such cases, you can also play in window mode
as described above, to avoid these problems.



How can I reset the original sample doodles in Doodle Studio?
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After a fresh installation, the game includes 25 sample doodles in the doodle studio,
which are called "Doodleus Op.01" - "Doodleus Op.25". You can play through these sample
doodles, as well as use them as a basis to create your own doodles. You can also modify
or delete these sample doodles.
If you happen to have modified and/or deleted some of the sample doodles, and want to
reset them to their original state, start the game with the "-resetsampledoodles" command
line option. For example:

    "C:\Program Files\Your Doodles Are Bugged!\YourDoodlesAreBugged.exe" -resetsampledoodles

If you start the game with this option, then all 25 sample doodles will be restored to
their original state.

If you have the Steam version of the game, then you can supply this parameter via the
launch options. See the explanation of the window mode above on how to supply a launch
option parameter in the Steam client, only supply the "-resetsampledoodles" parameter
instead. Once you have supplied this parameter and started the game, the sample doodles
will be reset. Do not forget to then again remove the parameter from the "Launch Options"
dialog! Otherwise the sample doodles will be reset on every subsequent game start!


I seem to have "invisible" cracks in my self-made doodles, that allow bugs to fall through
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Sometimes, when you create a doodle in doodle studio, and you then play this doodle,
it can happen that at certain places bugs seem to fall "through" the black lines,
even in places where there do not seem to be any cracks or gaps.
This can happen with some of the pre-fab doodle elements, if they are combined or
rotated in an unfortunate way. If you think that your doodle has such problems, there
is a way to better see these "cracks":

In the doodle studio, when you click the "Play" button to play the doodle, hold down
SHIFT + CTRL + ALT (hold all three keys at the same time, at the moment you click the
button).

This will start the doodle in "debug mode". In this mode, you will see the doodle like
the bugs see it, consisting only of black and white pixels. Black pixels are barriers,
white pixels are free space. Any cracks should now be visible as white pixels. If there
is even a single white pixel gap in a black line, then a bug may indeed fall through
this gap. You can try to close this gap by adding more doodle elements, or by slightly
rotating or moving the problematic element.


Why are there sometimes black bars when I load a background image in Doodle Studio?
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All doodles always have an aspect ratio of 16:9. If you load a background image with a
different aspect ratio (for example images from a digital camera usually have an aspect
ratio of 4:3 or 3:2), then doodle studio will fill the remaining area with black.


Why is the background image in Doodle Studio sometimes distorted?
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With some video hardware, the size of a background image is limited to max 2048 pixels
(both in width and height). This is often the case with older or low-end video hardware.
If with such a video card you try to load a background image that has a width or height
that exceeds 2048 pixels, then the video card will resize the image to fit into the 2048
pixels limit. This may cause the image to be distorted. This may then also cause black
bars to appear (see above: "Why are there sometimes black bars?").
For example: Assume that you have an image with a size of 4480x2520 pixels (which is
exactly a 16:9 aspect ratio, as is optimal for doodle background images). If you try to
load this image on such a limited hardware, then the result will instead have a size of
2048x2048: Both the width and the height have been shrunk to fit the limit. And since
the width had to be shrunk more than the height, the image now appears distorted. In
addition, since the result is now a square image, with an aspect ratio of 1:1, doodle
studio now has to fill the remaining space with black bars to the left and right, to
fill up the full 16:9 aspect ratio.


Where is my saved data?
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Your Doodles Are Bugged! saves the player data in the following folder:

- Windows 7 and Windows Vista:

  C:\Users\USERNAME\Saved Games\Your Doodles Are Bugged!\
  
- Windows XP:

  C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\My Documents\SavedGames\Your Doodles Are Bugged!\

(The names of these folders may differ on a non-English Windows system.)

This folder is *not* deleted when you uninstall the game. So you can safely uninstall the
game and later re-install it, and you will still have all your save data. If you do want
to remove your save data too, simply remove the folder "Your Doodles Are Bugged!" from the
"Saved Games" folder described above.

The Steam version of Your Doodles Are Bugged! also stores some data in the Steam Cloud.
Note, that only your game progress is saved in the Steam Cloud. Any doodles that you
create in or import into the doodle studio are stored locally only (in the folder
described above).
So if you start a doodle on one computer and plan to continue working on it on another
computer, don't forget to export the doodle on the first computer and import it on the
second computer. Use the Export/Import buttons in the doodle studio for this.
