
HOTEL MARKETS Readme.txt
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1. General information
2. Version history
3. System requirements
4. How to play?
5. Tips
6. Bugs?
7. MK Games



1 GENERAL INFORMATION
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Hotel Markets is a freeware game; you can freely play and distribute it as long as you
won't change anything in it (that's criminal).

It has been made by MK Games, based on a real board game.



2 VERSION HISTORY
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Version 1.1 released in 2.1.2003, additions to previous version:
- "hotel statistics" feature
- "hiscore list" feature
- "automatic camera change" v2
- one new camera view ("Fujiyama 1")
- updated "all time statistics"
- 4 bugs removed in addition to "ACC's".
- minor graphical additions
- this readme.txt

Version 1.02 released in 17.12.2002:
- "fix fare collections injustices" feature
- 2 bugs removed

Version 1.01 released in 16.12.2002
- 4 bugs moved

Version 1.0 released in 15.12.2002
- first released version
- "automatic camera change" v1



3 SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
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Hotel Markets requires
P200, 32MB, video card capable for 1024x768 resolution.

Recommended system
P2, 64MB.



4 HOW TO PLAY
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Hotel Markets is a financial board game where your goal is to make more money than
other players in hotel business.

Technically it's pretty simple:

1: Throw the dice -> wait while your car is moving..
2: Action window appears and tells your options in current turn.
3: Make your choice (buy,build,cancel...)
4: End the turn.

What makes this game difficult is to decide where to use money and how much to use it.
By taking risks you can win the game or lose everything. It's about finding the happy
medium.



5 TIPS
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There are several little things to try in Hotel Markets.

- Change the camera view in the beginning of a turn by pressing 1, 2, 3 or 5. Notice that automatic camera change won't ever change to view 3, so it can be enabled manually only. 
- Enable automatic camera change by pressing 8 and disable it by pressing 9.

- Stop the music in Main view by pressing S.

- End the turn in Main view by pressing E (if the End Turn -button has left disabled).

- Enable all buttons by pressing G in main view.

- Quit the game by pressing ESC in any view.

- Fix money problems by clicking the red text which appears at the bottom of the Finance screen after 8 seconds. This is useful when Hotel Markets has incorrectly asked player to spend nights twice in the same turn.

- Skip Throw for nights -screen by pressing ESC. This is also related to so called double-spend-a-night -bug. 

- Play the game without automatic camera change if you want to be sure that there will appear minimum amount of bugs.



6 BUGS?
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This version 1.1 is much more bug-free than earlier versions, but there might appear some.

Double-spend-a-night: Hotel Markets might incorrectly ask you to spend nights twice in the same turn.
  SOLVE: Enable all buttons by pressing G and click "Cancel"
  OR Press ESCAPE in Throw for nights -screen
  OR Spend the double nights and fix the injustice by clicking the red "money problems?" text in finance screen.

All buttons left disabled
  SOLVE: Press G (enable all buttons) or E (end the turn) in main view.

If you spot a new bug, please report to mkgamez@yahoo.com.



7 MK GAMES
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MK Games is a small finnish game-maker team, which produces quality freeware and shareware games for Windows.
Hotel Markets is MK Games' 15th official game release following products like Action Point, King Pong or 
Extreme Hockey.

MK Games Web contains all the games, direct download links, screenshots, information and competitions.
It's located at 

http://www.mkgamez.cjb.net

Our e-mail address is mkgamez@yahoo.com. Feel free to write about anything!




MK Games in 30.12.2002


 


