Moonlight Walks is an original English-language bishoujo game that
runs on Windows and Linux, and may work on other platforms as well. It
was created by PyTom, and is released under the creative commons
license. Please read LICENSE.txt for more details.

The directions to run this game vary depending on if you are using
Windows or one of the other supported platforms.

Windows
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Moonlight Walks should work with Windows 98 or higher.

To run it, simply run the moonlight.exe excutable in the directory
containing the unzipped archive. After a few seconds, the game will
start running.


Other Platforms
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Running this game on other platforms is more involved. You'll need to
ensure that python 2.3 or greater is installed, and that the pygame
libraries have been downloaded. You'll also need to have a version of
SDL_mixer that supports ogg vorbis.

Assuming that you've managed to satisfy the prerequisites, however,
actually running the game is simple. You just need to run
moonlight.py. We personally do that on Linux with a command like:

    python moonlight.py

After a few seconds, the game should start running.


By default, the game starts running in full screen mode. On some
computers, especially some virtual machines, this can lead to mouse
problems. To fix this, press 'f' while the splashscreen is
displaying. 


Some of the more interesting actions can be performed as follows:

- The left mouse button is used to advance to the next line of
  dialogue, or to pick menu options.

- The right mouse button brings you into a menu screen where you can
  save the game, load the game, change preferences, return to the main
  menu, or quit entirely.

- Scrolling the mouse wheel up or pushing page up returns you to the
  previous screen of dialogue or menus.

- Holding down the CTRL key skips dialogue. By default, it only
  skips read dialogue, but this can be changed by a preference. Tab
  toggles skip mode.


If you have any problems, please find our contact information on the
game's web site:

   http://www.bishoujo.us/moonlight/

Thank you for taking the time to read this README file.


