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Your speaking my language with "begin your search at the dingiest, most poorly-organized used bookstore you can find, one with piles of unsorted books lying around and a huge shelf of yellowed, crumbling sci-fi paperbacks." Unfortunately, these sorts of places are in the process of suffering the same fate as Mr. Schmierdorf: largely being forgotten and closing down. I will keep my eyes open. I now have a quest! To find Mr. Schmierdorf's tomes!

In your game you wrote that it's loosely based on works by  Joe Schmierdorf. A quick google search turned up nothing on ol' Joe. Now I am intrigued. Do you know where a fella could find some of Mr. Schmiedorf's esoteric writings?

Okay

Yes, it still crashes when I click on anything in the Guide outside the starting village.

I haven't. I'll try that. Thanks!

Hitting F5 worked for me.

It's actually F5. But, its great to have it in full-screen! How do I break down bushes into sticks? I can sort of read the Guide if I go into the Save file and peruse guide.ini However, I've tried interacting with bushes and trees with everything I can think of and I don't get any sticks. Thanks!

This looks like a great game! Is there a download or demo available? Thanks!

Sorry, I should also add that the crash only happens after I open the guide by hitting 'C'. If I select any topic in the guide it crashes. I can open and close the guide fine. But, when I click on a topic in the guide, it crashes.

It happens all the time. I even re-downloaded it and had the same problem on the new download. Thanks for responding! Also, how do you make the game full screen? Alt+Enter doesn't work and there doesn't seem to be an option for full screen. Thanks!

The game keeps crashing on me. The game errors log reads: 

ERROR in
action number 16
of  Step Event
for object Control:

Error in code at line 3:
   
if biome_lighting[area_biome]="normal" then light_daynight()
                                 ^
at position 32: Cannot compare arguments.

ERROR in
action number 16
of  Step Event
for object Control:

Error in code at line 3:
   
if biome_lighting[area_biome]="normal" then light_daynight()
                                 ^
at position 32: Cannot compare arguments.