Games PC Buried in Time User Manual

- Buried in Time Manual -

Contents

The Journeyman Project Recap
Installation - Windows 95 / 98 / Macintosh
File Functions and Command Keys
Interface Overview
Jumpsuit Overview
Getting Started
Tips & Hints
Scoring
Credits

The Journeyman Project Recap

In Buried in Time, you once again assume the role of Gage Blackwood,
better known as Agent 5 of the Temporal Security Agency. As an agent of the
TSA, it's your responsibility to ensure that history is not altered by anyone
with the ability and inclination to do so. Following is a recap of recent Earth
history, the founding of the TSA, and the plot of the original Journeyman
Project.

After a brutal third world war, Earth finally achieved peace and unity in the twenty-second century. Two
hundred years later, in 2308, the planet was visited by an alien race who called themselves the Cyrollans.
They broadcasted a message saying that they had come to invite Earth into a consortium of intelligent space
faring races known as the Symbiotry of Peaceful Beings. They indicated that they would give us
exactly ten years to consider their proposal, and then departed.

Meanwhile, the accomplished physicist Elliot Sinclair had built a prototype time
machine under government contract. However, after its maiden voyage, the project
was scrapped. The time machine, known as Pegasus, was dismantled and secretly
reconstructed in the Temporal Security
Annex, a top-secret government facility
established for the purpose of
safeguarding history from sabotage.

Earth, Agent 5 was on duty at the TSA. As the Cyrollan fleet
came into sight, the temporal distortion warning alarms began to
wail. Someone had gone back in time and altered history in three places. With only minutes to spare before
history was changed forever, Agent 5 jumped back in time to investigate the distortions. It didn't take him
long to find the sources - three androids that had been sent back into the past, each with a mission to
significantly alter history. Drawing on years of training, Agent 5 managed to disable each of the robots and
access their memory recordings to piece together what was going on.

The robots had been sent by Dr. Elliot Sinclair. Fearing that the Cyrollans were planning an
invasion, Sinclair constructed a new time machine and sent his android servants back in time
to change history so as to make Earth a less appealing target. And should they have failed,
Sinclair was prepared to assassinate the Cyrollan ambassador as a sign of defiance.

With only moments remaining until the ambassador walked into the line of fire, Agent 5

located Sinclair's rooftop emplacement and apprehended the crazed scientist, thereby ensuring humanity's
acceptance into the Symbiotry of Peaceful Beings.

On the day of the Cyrollans' return to

Installing & Launching - Windows

TO INSTALL

Begin at the Windows desktop.

Insert the Buried in Time Disc 1 CD-ROM into your CD-ROM drive.
Locate and run the "SETUPBIT.EXE" file on Buried in Time CD-ROM.
Follow the on-screen instructions to install Buried in Time.

TO PLAY

Begin at the Windows desktop.
Insert the Buried in Time Disc 1 CD-ROM into your CD-ROM drive.
Click the Start button, point to PROGRAMS, BURIED IN TIME.
Click the BURIED IN TIME menu item to start the program.

*NOTE: Before installing Buried in Time, confirm that your CD-ROM drive and sound card are installed
and working properly.

Installation - Macintosh

Copy the folder "Copy Contents to Hard Drive" to your hard disk. You may rename this folder "Buried in
Time Folder" if you like.

NOTE: If you have QuickTime 2.5 or later installed, you may skip this step. Otherwise,
open the "Files for System Folder" folder on the CD-ROM and drag "QuickTime", "Sound Manager", and
"Apple Multimedia Tuner" onto your System Folder (copy "QuickTime Power Plug" too if your Macintosh
has a PowerPC processor), then click OK at the prompt. If a dialog box prompts you again that a newer
version of one or more of these extensions already exists, click the CANCEL button. However, if a dialog
box prompts you that an older version already exists, choose to replace it. If any of these extensions are
"already in use", you will need to manually remove the existing copy(s) from the Extensions folder within
your System Folder and try again.

Now make sure that you are running in THOUSANDS of colors and that Virtual Memory is turned OFF by
accessing the Monitors and Memory control panels, respectively. Like Virtual Memory, software such as
RAM Doubler and OptiMem are incompatible with Buried in Time, and should also be turned OFF. Finally,
restart with only necessary extensions active. Buried in Time only needs QuickTime, QuickTime
PowerPlug, Multimedia Tuner (for QuickTime 2.0 or older only), Sound Manager, and your CD-ROM
driver. Finally, double-click the appropriate "Buried in Time" file that you copied to your hard drive to
launch the game. You may discard the version of Buried in Time that does not match your processor.

File Functions and Command Keys

To access the 'File' menu options and other game controls, activate the Interface Biochip by selecting it in
your inventory display area, and then clicking on its picture icon. Now click the 'Menu' button on the
'Biochip Display Panel' to bring up the file options and preferences.

To save your game-in-progress onto your hard drive so that you may return to it later, click the 'Save'
button. This will bring up a standard dialog box for saving a file. You will not be able to save your game
onto the CD-ROM, so be sure to select your hard drive as the volume on which to save the game. You may
return to a previously-saved game by clicking the 'Restore' button.

The 'Flicker' and 'Transition Speed' controls effect the presence of animation on still frames and the speed
of turning, respectively. If the game seems sluggish on your computer, you may want to turn off flicker and
set the transition speed to maximum. Additionally, while playing the game you can hold down the 'Control'
key on your keyboard ('Option' key on the Macintosh) for 'Quick Mode', which will skip the walking
animations when you press the forward button, and jump you to the next stopping point.

The following functions may be accessed with command keys:

Function PC Macintosh

Save: CTRL + 'S' + 'S'
Restore: CTRL + 'O' + 'O'
Pause: CTRL + 'P' + 'P'
End Game: CTRL + 'Q' + 'Q'
Biochip Quick Access: CTRL + 1st letter of biochip name + 1st letter of biochip name
Quick Mode (skip transition): CTRL + walk forward or turn OPTION + walk forward or turn

Interface Overview

A - Message Window:

The message display above the main view window will alert you
to any situations or dangerous conditions that you need to be
aware of. Pay close attention to the information displayed here - it
could save your life.

B - Inventory:

The inventory controls are just below the main view window.
You can scroll through your possessions by clicking the up
and down arrows next to the item list. Clicking the Inspect button
between the arrows (the magnifying glass icon) brings up an
information screen on the selected item. To pick something up,
click and drag it from the view window down into your inventory and let go. Keep in mind that you can
only have one of any item in your possession. Also, inanimate objects can only exist in one place at any
given time. Thus, if you pick something up in a time zone, and later return to that same time zone, that
object will not be there again if you are still carrying it. To use an inventory item, click and drag its picture
icon into the main view window, and drop it on top of the object you want to use it on. Items used by or on
your Jumpsuit are activated by simply clicking on their pictures.

C - Biochips:

Biochips are program modules that allow the Jumpsuit to perform specific tasks. Biochips may be added
to the Jumpsuit to give it new functions. To activate a Biochip, click on its picture in the inventory item icon
window. This will bring up a control panel for that Biochip. To get information about what a Biochip does
or how it works, click the inspect button. As mentioned earlier, the Interface Biochip is how you access the
game's file functions and preferences. The other Biochips you have in your possession at the beginning of
the game include the Jump, Files, Cloak, and Evidence Biochips.

Jump Biochip:

The Jump Biochip is your time travel control panel. To jump to another time zone, activate the Jump
Biochip and click the 'Jump Menu' button. This will bring up a menu which allows you to jump to any of
the four altered time zones. You can also get a mission briefing on each of these time zones here (don't
confuse these with your own mission; they were the future Agent 5's TSA research missions). To return to
the present, click the 'Recall' button on the Jump Biochip's menu display.

Files Biochip:

By accessing the Files Biochip, you can get background information on the Temporal Security Agency the
Jumpsuit, and the agents of the TSA.

Cloak Biochip:

The Cloak Biochip activates the Jumpsuit's light-bending polysilicate membrane, creating the illusion of
invisibility. This is an essential feature of the Jumpsuit, as it allows you to avoid being seen while you're
exploring the past. However, as movement destroys the illusion of invisibility, the navigation buttons will
be disabled while you're cloaked.

Evidence Biochip:

As you explore the past, the message window will occasionally alert you to the presence of 'historical
anachronisms,' or temporally inappropriate items. These anachronisms are the pieces of evidence you're
looking for. To locate and document the anachronisms which are not immediately apparent, you will need to
use the 'Locate' feature of the Evidence Biochip. When you're in Locate mode, your cursor will change to
a crosshair. When this cursor is rolled over the anachronism, it will change to indicate that you've
discovered its exact location. You can now click to zoom-in on the evidence and register it. To review the
evidence that you've collected, click the 'review' button on the Evidence Biochip's menu display. You can
then click on any of the images in the picture menu to enlarge it to full-screen.

D - Navigation:

The Jumpsuit's navigation buttons, located in the lower right-hand corner of the interface, allow you to turn
left and right, look up and down, and move forward in the direction you're currently facing. When a
navigation button is lit, that means you can turn or move in that direction. You'll stop walking forward
when you reach the next decision point.

Jumpsuit Overview

The Time Displacement Unit, more
commonly known as the Jumpsuit,
is the Temporal Security Agent's mode
of time travel. Each of the TSA's 10
Jumpsuits have been coded
specifically to the DNA of the agent to
which it has been assigned, and cannot
be used by anyone other than the
assignee. Unauthorized tampering
with the suit will result in the
self-destruction of its
neurocircuitry.

Though the Jumpsuit offers freedom
of travel, it does not provide the agent
with much protection. For this reason,
it has been equipped with cloaking
technology that renders it invisible to
onlookers. This feature is vital to the
members of the Deep Time Unit,
who must exercise extreme discretion
while researching the past. However,
as moving destroys the illusion of
invisibility, the suit's navigation
buttons are disabled while it is
cloaked.

The Jumpsuit has also been equipped
with an oxygen re-breather and
compressed air supply for
environments with little or no oxygen. This reserve will immediately refill once the agent has returned to an
oxygenated environment.

The final significant feature of the Jumpsuit is the temporal pocket. Items collected by an agent are stored
in this pocket, which is actually a null-space void. When placed in the void, objects take up no space and
are not a burden to the agent. Such items can be easily retrieved by just dragging their inventory display
icons into the main view window.

Getting Started

You will first need to follow the appropriate installation procedure to get Buried in Time running on your
computer. After you've launched the game, you can press the space bar to skip the splash screens and
credits, and bring up the main menu. At the main menu, click the 'Interface Overview' button to get a
guided tour of the game's interface.

When the overview is finished, you will be brought back to the main menu. After reading the message on
the left side of the screen, choose a play mode, set the volume, and press the 'New Game' button.

After the opening animation, the Jumpsuit will automatically pull you forward in time, and control of the
game will pass over to you. At this point, you will want to get your bearings. Start by exploring the game's
movement interface in the lower right corner of the screen. Try turning to your left and right, and looking up
and down.

Once you've gotten used to looking around, turn to face the round greenhouse-like room and press the
forward arrow button. When you're directly in front of that room, turn to your right so that you're facing it,
look down. An opening will appear and the forward arrow button will highlight. Click the forward arrow
button. You will be moved forward into the room. Turn to your right and walk forward once. Turn right
again and look down at the seat. Move your cursor over the object you see there. The hand cursor means
that you can pick that object up. Click on it, and with the mouse button held down drag it down off the
bottom of the view screen and then let go. You just picked up the remote control. Click the Inspect button
(magnifying glass icon) between the inventory scroll arrows. This will bring up an info screen on that
object. Click again to remove it. Now look up, turn to your left, and press forward again. Turn to your

right, look down, and click on the seat in front of you. Once you're sitting down, move the cursor over the
object at the bottom of the screen. It will turn into a magnifying glass to indicate that you can zoom-in on
that object. Click on it. This is the Environ system. The Environ system has three modes: Environ mode,
cartridge mode, and network access mode. These are accessed with the 'Environ' button, the center area,
and the 'All-Sat' button, respectively. Click the 'All-Sat' button to go into network access mode. Watch
each of the four stories on INN - they will give you some important information.

Now try jumping to a time zone. To do so, scroll to the 'Jump Biochip' item in your inventory, and click
on its picture. Next click the 'Jump Menu' button and select a time zone. Your future self has hidden some
information somewhere in the house which is vital to your success, and you can't jump to any of the time
zones until you've gotten it. Take some time to explore the house. Once you've found the message and are
somewhat confident that you know what you're looking for, you can begin jumping to the other time
zones.

Tips & Hints

The most important thing to remember while playing Buried in Time is to save often. If you remember to
save your game regularly, and under a different name each time, you'll create a record of your journey that
will allow you to restart from any point along the way. If you die while playing in Walkthru Mode, you can
return to where you were before the tragic event by clicking the 'Try Again' button, but don't forget to
save your game before quitting!

If you're having difficulty progressing in a time zone, try moving on and returning to it later. A
solution may present itself elsewhere.
If you find 'Adventure Mode' too difficult, try playing the game in 'Walkthru Mode.'
Take some time to familiarize yourself with the Biochips. Every one of them is useful.
Pay attention to the stories on the Interactive News Network.
Look up and down and scan the screen with your cursor to find hidden interactions.
Pressing the forward button while Arthur is speaking will cause him to stop in mid-sentence. If you
would like him to repeat the last thing he said (or was in the middle of saying), press the space bar.

Scoring

As in The Journeyman Project, you will receive a score based on
your performance. The factors you will be scored on include the
amount of evidence you gather, the number of puzzles you
solve, how much research you do, and whether or not you
finished the game. But unlike the first game, you will not be
judged on the amount of time it takes you to complete a time
zone. So don't feel rushed - spend as much time as you like
exploring each of the environments. 15,000 points is a perfect
score.

Credits

Presto Studios

Story By David Flanagan

Phil Saunders
Michel Kripalani

Written By David Flanagan

Project Manager Farshid Almassizadeh

Conceptual Design Phil Saunders

Victor Navone

Art Director E.J. Dixon III

Lead 3D Modeler Jose Albanil

3D Modeler Leif Einarsson

Texture Designers E.J. Dixon III

Frank Vitale

Computer Animators Shadi Almassizadeh

Eric Fernandes
Eric Hook

Original Music & Sound Design Bob Stewart

Lead/Mac Programmer Greg Uhler

MPC Programmer David Black

Systems Engineer Prakash Kripalani

Executive Producer Michael Grant

Creative Director Phil Saunders

Producer Michel Kripalani

Additional Crew

Death Scene Illustrations Gary Glover

Additional Writing (Arthur) Matt Weinhold

Soundstage IOF Studios

Studio Arrangements James Stone

Lighting Steve Raines

Camera Michael Gerdes

Audio Rad Corn

Makeup Michelle Streiter

Jumpsuit Prototyping All Effects Company

Eric Allard
Bill Bryan
Erik Stohl

Jumpsuit Technical Support Hunter Scott

Calligraphy Charlene Alexander

Image Processing Lauren Morimoto

Latin Translation Eric Dallaire

Windows audio drivers John Miles Design

Talent

Michelle Visard Michele Scarabelli

Gage Blackwood Todd McCormick

Voice of Arthur Matt Weinhold

Mark Johnson Ray Uhler

William Daughton Victor Navone

Martin Walker Eric Fernandes

Sarah Michaels Susan Beninghoff

Lisa Long Melissa Tan

Jack Baldwin Daniel Mann

Agent 8 Bert Benvenuti
Castle Guard 1 Randy Lefkowitz
Castle Guard 2 David Verbeck
Castle Guard 3 Braulio Busquiazo

Cheese Girl spokesperson Frank Vitale