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Welcome to EASe UFO!

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 UFO is more complex than our EASe driving games. The player can not only turn the vehicle left and right, like a driving game, but also up and down. Therefore, EASe UFO 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 over distant worlds, collecting alien artifacts! What more could a kid want?

EASe UFO 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 vehicle 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.

There are three missions in EASe UFO: the Moon, Mars, and a strange alien world. You gain points by hitting the colored objects. The Moon is the easiest, with lots of point pickups about. Mars is populated by large pyramids left by some unknown ancient civilization. Lastly, the alien world is off in some distant part of the universe, made of a strange blue rock and never before visited by humans.

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	Time limit
1. Slow vehicle	Moon	1 hour max
2. Slow vehicle	Mars	1 hour max
3. Slow vehicle	Alien	1 hour max
4. Fast vehicle	Moon	1 hour max
5. Fast vehicle	Mars	1 hour max
6. Fast vehicle	Alien	1 hour max
7. Mix and match	Mix and match	2 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 flying.

Click Launch Mission.

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