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Welcome to EASe Airshow!

The most important element in all EASe games is the music. The Electronic Auditory Stimulation effect music can teach your child to habituate to noise and allow them to experience life in a more comfortable, less frightening way. This in turn will enable other therapies your child is receiving to more effectively do their job.

Before you start the game, click on the small speaker icon in the bottom right corner of Windows and set your system speaker volume to maximum. You can then set the desired level for the music in the audio setup screen. Click the Setup screen to access the Graphics, Audio and Controls pages. Click on the Audio button and then click on Test Music. When the music starts playing, set the volume to a level that is soft and comfortable for you to listen to. Put the headphones on your child, and if your child says the music is too loud, turn it down more. In each subsequent mission, turn the music up slightly, until it is playing at a robust, but not uncomfortable level.

The second most important element of EASe games is the sense of movement and balance. We have created a visual motion environment that will dramatically stimulate your child's sense of balance. We call this effect Virtual Vestibular Stimulation. If you are not a game player, you may even notice yourself getting nauseous watching! This is intended.

As a flying game, EASe Airshow is more complex than our EASe driving games. The player can not only turn the jet plane left and right, like a driving game, but also up and down. Therefore, EASe Airshow should not be the first EASe game a young child is given to play. Instead, give them an EASe driving game first to get them used to the mouse controls.

At the same time, the sense of free flight creates excellent visual/vestibular stimulation. Your children will love it! Flying through the clouds popping big balloons! What more could a kid want?

EASe Airshow has additional input options that you may want to configure before playing a full game. To modify these options, click on the Controls button in the Setup screen. In particular, the horizontal and vertical sensitivity of the mouse can be adjusted. If you find that the jet reacts too quickly, reduce the mouse sensitivity, and if it is too hard to turn, increase the sensitivity. Furthermore, some players like to use the mouse in "flight stick" mode. That is, moving the mouse forward to tilt down and backwards to tilt up. Others find that confusing and want to move forward to tilt up and backwards to tilt down. If you find someone who has this trouble, you can toggle the Inverted mouse pitch check box. This will reverse the up/down behavior.

To set up the game graphics, click on the Graphics button in the Setup screen. We recommend 1024 x 768 or higher screen resolution with Fullscreen Video if your graphics card can run well at this size. Be sure to click Apply after you have finished changing the settings. After the computer has reset its screen resolution, click OK.

Click Start Mission to select your vehicle speed and mission difficulty.

There are three mission difficulty levels in EASe Airshow: easy, medium, and hard. You gain points by hitting the colored balloons. The green balloons are worth 100 points and the red balloons are worth 500. In the easy mission, the balloons are very large and immobile. In medium difficulty, the balloons rise slowly to the sky. Lastly, in the hard mission, the balloons are much smaller and move more quickly. These missions can be paired with mountain or island scenery.

We recommend that your child play in the following order to gradually increase visual stimulation and keep the game fresh. Allow your child to play up to one half hour at a time, two times a day for up to ten hours of play. Other schedules with shorter session times and a maximum of ten total hours of play are also possible.

Speed	Mission	Level	Time limit
1. Slow vehicle	Island	Easy	1 hour max
2. Slow vehicle	Mountains	Easy	1 hour max
3. Slow vehicle	Island	Medium	1 hour max
4. Slow vehicle	Mountains	Medium	1 hour max
5. Fast vehicle	Island	Easy	1 hour max
6. Fast vehicle	Mountains	Easy	1 hour max
7. Fast vehicle	Island	Medium	1 hour max
8. Fast vehicle	Mountains	Medium	1 hour max
9. Slow vehicle	Island	Hard	1 hour max
10. Slow vehicle	Mountains	Hard	1 hour max
11. Fast vehicle	Island	Hard	1 hour max
12. Fast vehicle	Mountains	Hard	1 hour max

For more variety, all of these levels can also be played in first person mode by pressing Tab after the game starts.

Set the time limit in the box in the upper right corner of the screen. Initially select a 5 minute mission to allow your child to get used to driving.

Click Launch Mission.

Tell your child to fly the plane around and have fun. If they wish, they can tag the balloons to accumulate points and hear the sounds. The points will show up in the upper right hand screen.