Moonlight Walks is an original English-language bishoujo game that
runs on Windows, Mac OS X, 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.


Playing the Game
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This sections assumes you already know how to start the game. If
that's not the case, please read the next section, "Running the
Game". 

By default, the game starts running in full screen mode. On some
computers, especially some virtual machines, this can lead to mouse
problems. Pressing 'f' can be used to toggle between full screen and
windowed modes.

Some of the more interesting game 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.



Running The Game
================

The precise method of running this game varies depending on which
platform you are running it on, and how you installed the game. Please
choose the following section that is closest to your situation.

On Windows, After Using the Installer
-------------------------------------

Moonlight Walks should work with Windows 98 or higher.

The installer should have left a shortcut named "Moonlight Walks" on
your desktop. Double-clicking that shortcut will run the program.


On Windows, After Using the Cross-Platform Zip File
---------------------------------------------------

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.

Mac OS X 10.3 or higher
-----------------------

After unzipping the game, you should see a "Moonlight Walks"
application. Run it to start the game.

Linux x86
---------

After untaring the game, change into the moonlight-linux-1.1 directory
and run ./run_game.sh. This will run the game.

