Beyond Reality

A Graphic Adventure by Rusalka Clarke

How to Play

LOAD/Save - F5/F7

Skip Cutscene - Esc

QUIT - CTRL+Q

Beyond Reality is a Graphic Adventure, based on such games created in the early 90’s as Monkey Island and Day of the Tentacle.

The goal of the game is to help Ian find his way to the core of the Dream World, so he can prevent the evil Mort Kittensoft from releasing the Toxic Waste of Nightmares into reality. By picking up objects available on the screen using the Pick Up command, the item will then become available in your inventory. You can also use the options Look At, Use and Talk To. You can use items in various different ways to solve puzzles in the game.

By using the option Pick Up, and then clicking on the Flower, Ian will then obey your command. The Flower will then become part of his Inventory. NOTE! When you are picking up or using items, or when there is a short cutscene, the GUI will become disabled and you will not see it.

The GUI is the black box at the bottom of the screen that has the four options (Pick Up, Use, Look At and Talk To). GUI stands for Graphical User Interface, and it’s how you control the game. You can then use the items you have collected to solve puzzles.

After clicking on an option, for instance, “Pick Up”, you will then be in “Pick Up mode”. To return to Walk Mode again, click the Right Mouse Button. This is essential, or you will not be able to move Ian.

The Story, The Plot, and the Evil Villain.

Every story needs a villain, and Mort Kittensoft is the rogue of Beyond Reality. He is the Governor of the Dream World. The other twenty-three electoral candidates mysteriously came to sticky ends...

And every story has a hero! Ian is the main protagonist in this one.

Ian is staying overnight in the Cliffside Motel, when the child of the owner is kidnapped by a cloaked demon. Ian tries to rescue the child, but of no avail; a girl who calls herself Aya interrupts his efforts. She is a Dream Catcher. It is her job to capture all the escaped creatures of nightmares and return them to the Dream World where they belong.

The Dream World is the place we go when we sleep. Every dream we have contributes to the wild existence of this world. The only way to rescue the Child, is to follow the demon to the dream world with him... so Ian has to sleep like he’s never slept before.

Yet it proves difficult. The creature comes from the dreaded Toxic Waste Area of the Dreamworld... the area where all the Bad Dream Monsters are kept. It is sealed away tightly, and Ian must find a way to it before it’s too late...

Meanwhile, Mort Kittensoft is telling a captivated crowd his ambitions for the future... and his dream to own reality.

TROUBLESHOOTING:

PROBLEM: The game won’t run on my PC!!!

Get a new PC.

PROBLEM: I’m stuck after entering Cliffville. I can’t walk in to the town!

Click around a bit. People sometimes get stuck here, but a lot of mouse clicking should fix it.

PROBLEM: Ian is stuck and won’t move anywhere for me.

Click the RIGHT mouse button once to clear the previous command mode.

PROBLEM: I can’t see anything; the screen goes blank when I load Beyond Reality.

Turn on your computer.

PROBLEM: I can’t save my game progress!

F5 or F7 load or save your game respectively.

Got a problem I couldn’t solve? Email me with the details at YUFSTER@YAHOO.COM