				Roswell Racer Readme

Roswell Racer is ShellShocked Entertainment's entry to TheGameCreators Alienware competition (2003).  
Roswell Racer was completed in under 4 months by 1 programmer (Eric Clayton) and 1 artist (Alec Moody).  
All visual media included with Roswell Racer belongs to Alec Moody.

Controls:
Left/Right: Steer
Up: Accelerate
Down: Brake
Spacebar: Hop
Shift: Look behind you
Control: Use power up
Adjust Camera: []   (not recommended)

Running Roswell Racer:
Roswell Racer has been tested on the following machines:

P4 2.8C :: MSI Neo-2LS running PAT:: 1gb Mushkin PC-3500 DDR High Perf level 2@ 2,2,2 :: ATI Radeon 9800 Pro AIW :: 120Gb Seagate Barracuda 7,200RPM SATA HD:: Direct X 9 :: Win XP Pro SP1

P4 2.53b ghz :: Asus P4B533 :: 512mbs of PC2100 DDR at loose timings :: ATI Radeon 9700 Pro :: 60gb 7,200RPM ATA 100 HD :: DirectX 9 :: Win XP home SP1

P4 2.4b ghz :: Dell 845 motherboard :: 256mb pc2100 DDR at loose timings :: Nvidia   Geforce 4 MX 440 :: 50gb 5200 RPM ATA 100 HD :: DirectX 9 :: Win XP home 

Roswell racer ran at playable frame rates on all of these machines.  If you are experiencing poor performance in Roswell Racer try turning particles and reflections off.  
Additionally to improve image quality (on all machines) set your desktop resolution to 1024x768 32bit color.  

Roswell Racer requires a 32mb graphics card with 32bit color to run.  We recommend a Radeon 9500/ Geforce 4 TI 4600 or better.


Credits/contact info:

Programming:
Eric Clayton
ericclayton@shellshockede.com

Art:
Alec Moody
alecmoody@shellshockede.com

Music:
Leif Taylor
leiftaylor@shellshockede.com



