"Lydia", an interactive novel for INSTEAD (http://instead.syscall.ru)
Discussion board: http://instead.syscall.ru/forum/viewtopic.php?id=1372
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INSTEAD and Metaparser: Peter Kosyh
Original idea, literary text and programming: Vasily Voronkov
Music and sound effects: Vasily Voronkov (except sounds listed below)
Beta testing: Nikolay Konovalow


*The game uses the following photos, available under Creative Commons:*

by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center:
flickr.com/photos/nasamarshall/4971286005/
flickr.com/photos/nasamarshall/6099580967/
flickr.com/photos/nasamarshall/7045389347/
flickr.com/photos/nasamarshall/4998376359/

by Gianmaria Zanotti:
flickr.com/photos/zanotti/312159382/

by woderferret:
flickr.com/photos/wonderferret/2826778639/

by Cyril Rana:
flickr.com/photos/retrogui_photos/6830698011/

by jpstanley:
flickr.com/photos/jpstanley/1423479417/

by LEOL30:
flickr.com/photos/49968232@N00/375735252/

by Dan:
flickr.com/photos/54299533@N04/6117599621/

by webtreats:
flickr.com/photos/44071822@N08/4091034625/

by Per Jensen:
flickr.com/photos/75929846@N00/6178788734/


*The game uses the following sound effects:*

by themfish:
freesound.org/people/themfish/sounds/34200/ (Attribution License)

by StephenSaldanha:
freesound.org/people/StephenSaldanha/sounds/166515/ (Attribution License)

by Robinhood76:
freesound.org/people/Robinhood76/sounds/83962/ (Attribution Noncommercial License)

by klangmanufaktur:
freesound.org/people/klangmanufaktur/sounds/144927/ (Attribution License)

by GGEffex:
freesound.org/people/CGEffex/sounds/98332/ (Attribution License)

by lluiset7:
freesound.org/people/lluiset7/sounds/141333/ (Creative Commons 0)

by peepholecircus:
freesound.org/people/peepholecircus/sounds/169994/ (Creative Commons 0)

by Mbazzry:
freesound.org/people/Mbazzy/sounds/6805/ (Sampling+)

by Freezeman:
freesound.org/people/Freezeman/sounds/153213/ (Attribution License)


*The game was created using the following software:*

INSTEAD game platform (http://instead.syscall.ru)
Paint.NET and GIMP (graphic editing)
Garage Band, Alchemy and Audacity (music authoring and editing)
Programmer's Notepad (code editing, text authoring)


*Installation*

"Lydia" is a cross platform game and is able to run on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X.
The game is available as a cross platform package (without INSTEAD) and as a standalone
package (with INSTEAD for Windows). If you have downloaded the latter and you are not
a Windows user, please obtain a version of INSTEAD for your platform: http://instead.syscall.ru
The game itself is located in appdata/games/lydia folder. You don't have to download
it twice.
Windows users - simply lunch instead-lydia.exe if this file is available with the package
or download INSTEAD for Windows.


Questions? Bug reports? Suggestions?
Feel free to use game forum: http://instead.syscall.ru/forum/viewtopic.php?id=1372
(russian language)
