Technical Information

There are three "versions" of the game. One each for Windows, Mac, and Unix (includes Linux).

You're going to need WinZip, or a similar program that can extract .zip files. Windows XP can read it automatically. Linux users can use "unzip" to extract the file.

The Downloads

Windows: chapter1-windows.zip (1.06MB)
Unix: chapter1-unix.zip (29KB)
Unix: chapter1-unix.tar.gz (27KB)
Mac: chapter1-mac.zip (29KB)

Windows: chapter1-windows.zip (1.01MB)
Unix: chapter1-unix.zip (27.6KB)
Unix: chapter1-unix.tar (29KB)

Credits and Thanks

Disclaimer: This game is based on the book series Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer. No profit is being made from this and all is done purely for the sake of entertainment. No claim is being made to the ownership of Artemis Fowl. The rights to this series and all fictional elements associated with it go to Eoin Colfer, Puffin Books, Penguin Books, Hyperion and Miramax Books. No infringement of any international copyright law is intended here.

The ASCII art in the game was obtained from an Internet ASCII generator
(http://www.network-science.de/ascii/) based on FIGlet.

HTML-Frontend (c) 1996-2004 by Jörg Seyfferth
FIGlet (http://www.figlet.org/)
(c) 1991, 1993, 1994 Glenn Chappell and Ian Chai

Credits for the 140-150 fonts are listed in the font database
(http://www.figlet.org/fontdb.cgi)

Thanks to: The White Lily for alpha testing and her hard work to help me. Kitty Rainbow, Matt, Juliet, Foaly, LEPrecon, hello, Scamp, Diana, and Hoonah* of AFC, and Brightness, FairyHunter, Anordir, Annoying Schizoid and MichaelM for beta testing.

If you wish to modify or use the source-code, please give credit to Gus and inform him that you wish to do so.