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1. PARTY DOSSTERS pey a Fea lt Party dossiers The Party Dossiers option allows you to review the three political parties plattorms The three parties are bJ on Christian Reform National Liberation and Popular Christian Reforn Party Stability Francisco Ferrante Oberon Formed in the 19405 as a popular alternative Christian Refora had its heyday during the short lived reformist governnent of Leonard Flores 1958 1954 Long the only tolerated aayesi visi party it managed to avoid banishment even during the worst of the dictator s excesses Its appeal is strongest prong the small urban middle class though it C s 15 also favored by elements of the coffee producers and the leadership of the Catholic Fe ie Church Fe It gives you a general idea of the party s positions in the past and its direction for the future When a party is selected a description of the party appears on the screen Minister dossiers Preparing to appoint ministers The Minister Dossiers option is active after you have To begin appointing ministers to your cabinet you first appointed at least one minister to your cabinet Use this need to select a party Select Party Dossiers and review a option to review minister dossiers or fire ministers party s dossier EN GENOSS i ao Cristian Reforn Party CONFIA uS i 4 f Ignacio Nunez Laranjera Liliana Ontiz Lana Francisco Ferrante Oberon hapiculture Minist2. Ha ie bI 20 sI oO Oo Oo 12 12 16 17 19 20 21 24 36 43 53 54 58 59 63 63 Introduction About this manual Before You Begin Hardware and software requirements Making a working copy Quick Start Starting Hidden Agenda Basic operations On line help Playing Hidden Agenda Instructions Overview A game begins Signing in ceremony Press conference The Presidente s office Desktop options Contacts Encounters Consultations Logbook Reports Drawer choices Save Restore Help 63 64 65 66 67 69 69 71 71 Quit Interrupts Memos Hidden Agendas Time in Hidden Agenda Calendar Verdict of History Ending the game Playing anew game 72 Author s Notes 76 About the Authors Springboard License Agreement Introduction You are about to step onto a stage populated witha world of characters generals and guerrillas shopkeepers and workers aristocrats and ambassadors As soon as you appear on the stage called Chimerica a small nation in Central America everyone s attention focuses on you Chimerica has just overthrown a thoroughly unpopular dictator and you are the new Presidente The fate of the nation is in your hands Asa key character in dramatic circumstances you will have face to face encounters with other strong willed characters Full of advice about what they think you should do they will be quite frank about their reactions to your decisions It will not be possible to
3. ministerial positions see the definitions in the Glossary and press Enter The minister reacts to the appointment section of the Reference Manual A member s dossier must be on the screen in order to we leong bhis pee opportunity to serve n Liliana Ortiz de lanza n Hei country with a deep sense or humility will begin the appointment process endeavor to prove myself equal to the task Select Appoint To and the four ministerial positions appear Christian Reform A forner teacher mother of Liliana Ortiz de Lanza four and member of the hoard of trustees of aa several social service agencies Widow of Agriculture Minister Armando Lanza popular university professor politician and critic of the Farsantes whose Defense Minister assassination in the last year of the sue ai chatorese helped spark the dictator s Internal Affairs Minister final fall from power Still carries the Been banner of her outspoken and influential husband but has now become an important figure in her own right Age 4 Recent statements indicate her support for Christian Reform aoe assistance to needy farmers 7 civilian control over the military Party Dossiers A increased funding for education and health from the three different parties and select the individuals you want to serve in your government Party Dossiers Dossiers care stable relations with all countries 33 Firing m
4. s name is used the way we use last names For example the full name of the President of Costa Rica who won the Nobel Peace Prize is Oscar Arias Sanchez but he is usually referred to as President Arias Sanchez is his mother s name When a woman marries she keeps her father s name In place of her mother s name however she will usually use her husband s name prefaced with de Margarita Penon de Arias the wife of President Arias was known until her marriage as Margarita Penon Gongora You may want to follow this style in entering your name 18 Press conference Your first press conference begins immediately after the signing in ceremony Your screen looks like this when the press conference begins crowd of reporters presses toward you Presidente Taylor lone calls there has been much talk recently of the need for justice Which of these would he most important in achieving aj more just society The reporters ask you three questions Your answers establish your goals as Presidente Read the reporters question then select the response you feel is appropriate see the Quick Start section for instructions on selecting 19 options When the questions are finished select the desk icon and an animated screen appears and provides you with information on the current season Tn the First Year of your Presidency the parvest Season ends and the Dry Season gins
5. The Reports feature provides you with two ways to monitor your progress the Press Digests option contains articles from local and international newspapers and the Progress Charts option illustrates how your decisions are affecting important social indicators Press Digests Progress Charts Press digests Think of the press digests as a file drawer of newspaper reports filed in chronological order from the date each was published Only thirty newspaper articles are available at any time Once thirty articles have been read the older ones are discarded and new ones appear You may notice the Reports icon blinking when you enter your office This indicates that there are newspaper articles that you have not read As you play Hidden Agenda the Reports icon blinks whenever there are new articles to read The Reports icon continues to blink whenever you enter your office to remind you of the unread articles When you select Press Digests the oldest unread E Back to read the report immediately preceding the newspaper article appears one on the screen a E EH E Newest News to read the most recent available The journal of Stability Honor amp Dignity The date Year One Heek B of the Dry Season OEE Progress charts Vi Progress charts show the progress of Chimerica as measured by a variety of indexes The charts indicate how your leadership is affecting the country sthe new Presidente faces a deteriorat
6. action If you want to delay your decision on an issue raised during an Encounter you can place the issue ona minister s agenda and deal with it later or not at all When you postpone your decision until you consult with your ministers a lot of time is spent on one issue Perhaps that issue deserves the time but it delays your attending to other problems and issues There are four things you can do while in Consultation onan issue E You can accept the advice of one of your ministers at almost any time E You can review a list of the advice of all of your ministers m You can consult closely with any minister to get a full Once an issue is placed on a minister s agenda there are description of his or her position three ways to remove it You can review issues that you have put ona u You arrange a Consultation with the minister on minister s agenda during an Encounter whose agenda the issue was placed and make a decision e You have another Encounter or Consultation during the current season on the same issue e At the end of a season all undecided issues are dropped from the agendas 42 43 To begin a Consultation select Consultations in the Presidente s office The following screen appears ASUNTOS INTERNOS ASUNTOS EXTERNOS 4 4 You must initially consult with one minister When you select a minister his or her agenda appears The agenda lists the issues of concern to the minister and
7. ulio Farsante If you do not want to continue the Encounter select the desk icon to return to your office 38 f you select Continue This Encounter the meeting begins Presidente many of the coffee pickers are Sergio Espinosa Castaneda really food growers Espinosa Says gesturing at a crowd of workers m t ae ithe needs of og families ie mist work as pickers for the coffee harvest Oy are treated as the least important of our sarats even though it is they who feed our people any Should they not get credit from the Bank Just as we coffee growers do so they E more corn and beans My pro pro pani Divide credit pesources between 00 the crops growers and the producers of export Again you have three options for action Ask For Advice to request advice from your advising minister E Agree to Proposal to agree with the Influential s proposal The reactions of the Influential and advising minister appear on your screen after you select this option Refuse this Proposal to refuse this proposal The reactions of the Influential and advising minister appear on your screen after you select this option 39 If you select Ask For Advice the advising minister offers an opinion on what you should do To make sure that no Chimerican goes to bed Gloria Jimenez Fleming hungry we must encourage the many small farmers who grow our corn and beans This wil wean a mayor change in our n
8. Charts the Military Expenses chart appears on the screen To view a different chart select its name from the list on the right side of the screen Use the charts to help you make decisions For a complete listing of the charts and how to interpret them see the Reference Manual Drawer choices Your desk in the Presidente s office contains four drawer choices Save Use the Save drawer to save the game you are currently playing When you select the Save drawer a save window appears on the screen Enter the nane of the file you wish to save Hidden Agenda allows you to save the game you are currently playing so you can continue it later Games may be stored on a separate floppy diskette or on a hard drive if you are using one The disk must already be formatted to use as a data disk See your operating system manual if you need information on preparing data diskettes Do not store your games on your program disk Make sure your program disk is write protected 59 Saving on a 3 1 2 floppy drive You must save your Hidden Agenda games ona separate data disk When you are ready to save a game remove the Hidden Agenda program disk from the floppy drive and insert the formatted data disk Saving on a 5 1 4 floppy drive To save your Hidden Agenda games on a separate 5 1 4 floppy disk remove one of the program diskettes and insert a formatted data disk When you type ina filename be sure to specify t
9. consulted See List of Advice Allows you to seek advice from your other ministers When you select See List of Advice the following screen appears Your Agriculture Minister advises DM Hy advice Increase funding for heal th care The screen is an excerpt from your logbook It describes posal w de it and when it was made sat the proposal vho made i Sepre bse Kp My advice Keep allocations for health Again there are four options similar to those on the care to a MINIMUM previous screen Your Defense Minister advises eeni Your Internal Affairs Minister advises u Review Minister s Advice to return to the minister s gt My advice Increase funding for health advice screen coat g a Agree To This Proposal to decide in favor of the proposal The reaction of the minister involved Your External Affaivs Minister advises Get Detailed Advice appears hy advice Increase funding for heal th i renll 49 46 Each minister presents a short statement of advice You can accept a minister s advice or receive a more detailed explanation of his or her position on the issue To accept a minister s advice select the minister s statement and press Enter The reaction of the minister originally consulted appears For more in depth advice from one of the ministers select Get Detailed Advice and choose a minister from the list that appears on the screen Your Agriculture Minister advises N My
10. te Press any key to continue and you land squarely in the Presidente s office ready to begin playing the game The Presidente s office From your office you perform most of your actions Your desk holds five desktop choices and four drawers The calendar on the wall keeps track of game time elapsed 20 Your office appears on the screen as follows 3 1 i 7 S k E E 3 a aim g ave nits es SS a a cet mrja ea ee aaas oe ue end on m RESTORE Al TERHET i y pa ee cece eee eee ee ee The icon that represents your office is a desk Whenever you want to return to your office select the desk icon Sometimes the desk icon appears dimmed When that happens the icon is not active and you cannot return to your office at that point Desktop options The five desktop choices lead to other screens as represented in the following charts 21 Internal Affairs Minister External Affairs Minister Apr oiie Landless Laborer USSR Ambassador Minister Dossiers ii io The Teacher Rights Activist Contacts nterna Coffee Grower Shopkeeper Party Dossiers Externa US Ambassador Coftee Worker Guard Leader The Doctor Trade Union Leader Cotton Cultivator aes TNC Representative Sub comandante ee ai Ignacio Nunez Laranjera IMF Representative The Bisho Christian Reform Liliana Ortiz Lanza The Campesino industrialist Francisco Ferrante Oberon Army Colonel Ba
11. without making a decision You must either accept a minister s advice or the Influential s proposal when such a proposal exists 46 The minister offers advice on the issue you selected Our nation has a paghag ag ish Infant Ignacio Nunez Laranjera Nertality Kate Babies a usands die of diarrhea when simple onal jat oa ra Ae techniques exist that would easily rg then jalive Respiratory infections measles malaria wags A cough and tetanus kil thousands more children every wear can people who make tuo dollars a day attend Medicine The government is the only institution with the resources to address these problems My advice Increase funding for health care PIHE jii EE NTN Ha After reading the advice you have several options Review Original Proposal This option appears only if you select an issue that you placed on the minister s agenda If you select Review Original Proposal the following screen appears E See List of Advice to see a list of all your ministers proposals The date Year One Week 4 of the Dry Season Met with Commissioner of Health apasal PON Koca Increase funding for health care u Consult Other Ministers to seek advice from the other ministers Accept This Advice Select to make a decision on the issue When you accept the advice of a minister or agree to the request presented by an Influential you receive the reaction of the minister you originally
12. SPRINGBOARD IBM Tandy amp compatibles aie the challenge of leadership in penta erica N Customer Support Hotline 612 944 3912 Springboard Software Inc 7808 Creekridge Circle Minneapolis MN 55435 1989 TRANS Fiction Systems All rights reserved This manual and the software it describes may not be reproduced in whole or in part in any form whatsoever except for a backup copy of the software for archival purposes without the written permission of Springboard Software Inc Springboard and Hidden Agenda are trademarks of Springboard Software Inc IBM is a registered trademark of International Business Machines Tandy is a trademark of Tandy Corporation Hidden Agenda Face the challenge of leadership in Central America User Manual Credits This product was conceived designed and coded by TRANS Fiction Systems The following people were responsible for its development TRANS Fiction Systems Hidden Agenda by Jim Gasperini Systems Design Greg Guerin Jim Gasperini Ron Martinez Programming Ron Martinez William Herdle Graphics Angela Greene Title Video Steven Kolpan Springboard Software Inc Software Manager Dan Patten Documentation Gerri Johnson Manager Christine Brunkhorst Layout Lisa Stein Writer Anthony Signorelli Writer Software Technicians Mark Schneider Manager Special Thanks Jody Wilson Dedication In memory of my fat
13. advices Increase funding for health gare Defense Minister Your Defense Minister advises Internal Affairs Minister U2 My advice Keep allocations for health External Affairs Minister care to a minimun y Your Internal Affairs Minister advises iii Ny advice Increase funding for health care Your External Affairs Minister advises IAI My advice Increase funding for health care NOTE Be careful when asking for more detailed advice that you first select Get Detailed Advice and then the minister to be consulted If you press Enter while highlighting a minister s advice in See List of Advice you have made a decision cn Consult Other Ministers Allows you to seek advice from your other ministers When you select this option and choose a minister the minister s advice screen appears I must sau am suspicious of massive Antonio Alejos Espinales government handouts programs that give cet a for nothing to people who haven t learned it When visit a doctor I expect to pay for the services myself Mith all the serious problems facing us shall we just throw our limited resources about like bindseed My advice Weep allocations for health care tO AInikuN You can select the minister from whom you next want advice or select one of the other options with the results as described above Eventually you will have to accept someone s advice and make a decis
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15. any issues that you placed on the minister s agenda ee Affairs Minister is concerned Ignacio Nunez Laranjera about Nationalism Popular Organizations and Democracy Corruption Improvements to Infrastructure Issues you ve placed on the minister s agenda Increase funding for health care SE li aie iii 0 Arrest the members of the defeated Farsante Guard When you are at the minister s agenda screen your options are as follows e If you have not selected an issue to discuss you can cancel the Consultation by selecting the desk icon a Ifthe issue you want to discuss does not appear on the agenda of the minister select Consult Another Minister to return to the Consultations screen so that you can view the agenda of a different minister e The Select an Issue option enables you to choose the issue you want to discuss When you choose the Select an Issue option the topic boxes become active Find the issue you want to discuss and select it Hoa l Internal Affairs Minister is concerned Jonacio Nunez Laranjera anor p Nationalism Popular Organizations and Democracy F Improvements to Infrastructure Corruption Issues you ve placed on the minister s agenda DM Increase funding for health care ESE ae me UL DL UWE Se eck AA Mane yt Yl Inet patie Hiid gt Arrest the members of the defeated git ob Farsante Guard it NOTE If you choose Select an Issue you cannot exit the Consultation
16. at to US interests and the highest priority must be given to the maintenance of stability Our view of other people is deeply conditioned by our particular cultural perspective The reports we watch about Central America and popularizations in films novels and plays often tend to portray the region as a mystifying place where bloodthirsty Latins continually engage in passionate but irrational battle By asking the player to take the role of a Central American character we hope to show that when Central Americans battle each other they do so for reasons with deep historical roots The interactive medium a new species of drama shows its greatest strength when it lets the player test his or her own assumptions about the world If two people play the game the same way and receive the same Verdict of History it should be possible for one to decide I won and the other I lost The most important character encountered in Hidden Agenda is the player s own Flaubert once said that the world exists to be turned into a novel Before long we should see many attempts to update this sentiment Jim Gasperini 79 About the Authors Jim Gasperini writer designer and programmer has been working in the interactive mode since writing the first three titles of the Time Machine series of reader active juvenile historical fiction for Bantam Books With Ron Martinez he wrote Star Trek The Promethean Prophecy an intera
17. ational agricul tural priorities At the same time we must not move so quickly as to bankrupt the rest of the nation Like it or not owr economy depends on the sale abroad of coffee and cotton For the present we must continue to rely on those who produce then iy advice Divide credit resources between the food growers and the producers of export ccor jerops jj jaa Wail ae At this point you can choose to Reconsider Proposal to return to the Influential s proposal screen Accept this Advice to accept your minister s advice on this proposal The reactions of the Influential and your minister follow Put Proposal on Agenda to give you the opportunity to think about the proposal and listen to the advice of your other ministers Later you can 40 reconsider the proposal by arranging a meeting with the advising minister on whose agenda the issue was placed Eventually you will have to make some sort of decision even if it is to put the proposal on your minister s agenda You can have Encounters with as many Influentials as you want but you can meet with a particular Influential only once during a season You can avoid meeting with Influentials but you may miss some important information or options by avoiding them for too long For example you will have to meet with the International Monetary Fund representative in order to receive an IMF loan Your ministers can advise you on these l
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19. c Discuss issues of greatest concern to them Logbook Read the logbook to review decisions you have made recently Reports Read Reports to see what the domestic and international press say about you and review charts of important social and economic indicators 5 Review the news Select the Reports icon Choose Press Digests to see what the newspapers have to say about you When you are finished reading the news select the miniature desk icon to return to your office This is the way you ll always be able to return to your office except when you are in the middle of an Encounter or Consultation or when an Influential decides to interrupt your schedule 6 Appoint a cabinet Select the Contacts icon to appoint ministers to the four posts in your cabinet Select Party Dossiers Read the party dossiers Then review the dossiers of the members of each party These people are all members of the Junta of the Insurrection Decide who to appoint to your cabinet posts When that person s dossier is on the screen select Appoint to and a list of available posts appears Agriculture Defense External Affairs and Internal Affairs Now select the post for that person After appointing a full cabinet return to your office 7 Face the people From now on the game consists mostly of talking to Influentials in the Encounters section and ministers in Consultations In Encounters Influentials decide what issue they wis
20. ctatorship were numbered The president that replaced Farsante destined to last less than two years in pouen was one Lisa Taylor Weinman At the head of a broad based junta ae ci sg eA of the three major Review Verdict itical alignments with the support of E 0 the vast majority of the Chimerican populace the new president announced new priorities for the revolutionary government the elimination of government The VOH is too long for one screen Press any key to see the next screen After reading your VOH you have three options e Review Verdict to re read your entire Verdict of History E Play a Saved Game to continue playing a game you previously saved e Quit to exit Hidden Agenda and return to the system prompt 70 Ending the game There are three ways to end a game You complete your three year term of office and receive your Verdict of History Your term ends due to a coup assassination etc and you receive your Verdict of History You use the Quit drawer in your office and receive no Verdict of History Playing a new game To start a new game while in Hidden Agenda select the Restore drawer in the Presidente s office Type newgame ha in the name box and press Enter Then select OK and press Enter You will be returned to the signing in ceremony ready to play a new game Author s Notes Chimerica is a chimera of a country Body of El Salvador neck of Nicaragua claws o
21. ctive screenplay published by Simon amp Schuster A 1974 graduate of Williams College Jim has published articles on historical subjects and computer gaming theory in Language Technology Museum and other journals Hidden Agenda was inspired by a visit to Costa Rica Nicaragua and El Salvador in 1985 Ron Martinez producer designer and programmer is founder of TRANS Fiction Systems Corp an independent software production company devoted exclusively to interactive storytelling In addition to his work as series producer Ron designed and implemented with Greg Guerin the interface systems used in Hidden Agenda Ron s other credits include writing interactive children s books comic strips multiplayer mystery games and software adaptations of major literary television and motion picture properties Gregory Guerin programmer and designer has been programming his Macintosh since the machine s introduction A long standing interest in simulations and user interfaces eventually led him to develop with Ron Martinez the DEUS programming system which 76 underlies the complex behavior of artificial personalities encountered in Hidden Agenda Angela Greene TRANS Fiction s art director has been designing animation and graphics for computer activities since the character block days She has worked with Bank Street College Children s Television Workshop and Apple Bill Herdle additional IBM programming assem
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23. e to consult with the minister and that requires another two weeks Thus four weeks is spent on that issue On the other hand if you place it on the minister s agenda and do not make a decision before the end of the season the issue is dropped from the agenda If dropped from the agenda the issue absorbed a total of two weeks of your term in office e During an Interrupt you must make a decision on the issue presented Your decision absorbs two weeks one move 68 Calendar The calendar in the Presidente s office tells you the season and year in your presidency One UTERO LETEA ETETEN ET EETE T SEASON Dry Verdict of History The Verdict of History VOH presented at the end of the game allows you to judge your own performance as Presidente of Chimerica It is an encyclopedia excerpt written nearly a century after your term in office 69 Because there is no right or wrong way to play Hidden Agenda you will be the judge of your leadership at this critical time in Chimerica s history Permission to reproduce va 40 the end all segments of Chinerican this excerpt from the pocie ty united to overthrow an pong Encyclopedia Paxfnericana orty years of notorious corruption an iE Tri ial Editi repression eventually isolated him eo gaat internationally as well When the United E dol esa y States finally cut off all aid to the acknon edged country it was clear that the days of the di
24. er Defense Minister Formed in the 1940s as a popular ee ag ag ee Re orn y its regtay 3 ini WING The Short Lived PETOPALST JOvernnent ee ee lof Leonard Flores 1950 1954 Long the only er foe Minieton tolerated opposition party it managed to pore Ste meee avoid baniswwent even during the worst of the dictator s excesses Its appeal is strongest anny the small urhan middle class though it ae o N i ie 15 also favored hy elements of the coffee euer and the Leadership of the Catholic i Church Each party has three members who can be appointed to ministerial positions Select a member s name and press 28 29 Enter The member s dossier appears and provides information on the member s past positions and future plans Christian Reform forner teacher nother of Liliana Ortiz de Lanza our and member of the hoard of trustees of yee several social service agencies Widow o Armando Lanza popular university professor politician and critic of the Farsantes whose assassination in the last year of the HAT helped spark the dictator s final fall from power Still carries the banner of her outspoken and influential husband but has now become an important figure in her own right Age 47 Recent statements indicate her support for assistance to needy farmers civilian control over the military increased funding for education and health care Stable relations with all c
25. es tell you right away whether they are pleased with your choices They may complain about the consequences of your decisions or praise you to the skies The Verdict of History Whatever way the game ends you will be able to read the Verdict of History an excerpt from an edition of an encyclopedia written nearly a century after your term of office It discusses the history of Chimerica and your tenure as Presidente After reading the Verdict it is up to you to decide whether you won the game or lost Playing Hidden Agenda again The long term challenge of Hidden Agenda is to play it many times and compare what happens when you try different approaches For example the game looks very different when played with a cabinet dominated by the 14 National Liberation party than if the Popular Stability party advisors predominate A word about game playing style Although Hidden Agenda rewards a careful methodical approach such an approach is not required The game can be played in many different ways Some people read every word of every character s biography before setting up a cabinet others appoint the first face they see and move on You can gather information from as many sources as possible before making any decision For example you can read the historical information in the Reference Manual for an overall picture of Chimerica s past and present problems Or you can make quick decisions on the spot Another approach is t
26. f Cuba head of Haiti it is a composite of different parts that together form a beast representative of all In creating such a composite we do not mean to suggest that the various countries used as models are all essentially the same There are of course profound differences between Nicaragua and El Salvador between Guatemala and Honduras between Haiti and Cuba Paradoxically we feel we can present a more realistic portrayal of the region s conflicts by creating an imaginary country If we had instead attempted to model Guatemala in 1954 say or Nicaragua in 1979 our simulation would inevitably distort historical fact To create a comprehensible experience for the player we would have been forced to leave out certain important historical actors alter the motives of others overstress the importance of others still The game would have had to incorporate both the way it happened and various what ifs depending on choices the player made Our Guatemala would soon have become as imaginary as our Chimerica The logic of game design makes its own demands The way we chose to position the Chimerican Army is a good example The range of options open to the leader of a Central American country depends significantly on the power and structure of the armed forces If we had chosen to model the Chimerican army on that of 72 present day Guatemala or on the other hand that of Sandinist Nicaragua in each ca
27. h to discuss with you In Consultations you have a choice each minister presents an agenda from which you can select an issue to discuss From time to time an Influential will decide not to wait for you to visit and willinterrupt you When this happens you have to make a quick decision either to accept the Influential s proposal or accept the advice of the advising minister For further information see Interrupts in the Instructions section of this manual You will also occasionally receive memos from Influentials and ministers telling you of some action taken without your consent For further information see Memos in the Instructions section of this manual 10 8 Make decisions and watch time pass Time in Hidden Agenda is divided into moves seasons and years There are three seasons per year and three years in the game unless you are voted out of office or overthrown You can check what season and year it is by looking at the calendar in your office During an Encounter Consultation or Interru pt each decision counts as one move Every nine moves an animated screen lets you know that a season has passed Time does not elapse when you are in the Contacts Reports or Logbook areas Though there is a lot more to know about the world of Hidden Agenda this is all you really need to start the game Good luck Presidente 11 Instructions Overview Chimerica s struggle to oust the dictator Far
28. he drive the data disk is in Saving on a hard drive A Hidden Agenda game will be saved in the Hidden Agenda subdirectory that was created when you installed Hidden Agenda Or you can create a separate subdirectory on your hard drive to store all of your game files See your operating system manual for instructions on creating subdirectories Naming games When you save a Hidden Agenda game you need to give it a filename Hidden Agenda already supplies you with a name SaveGame HA If you want to use a different name use the Backspace key to delete the current name then type in a new one A filename can have 1 8 alphanumeric characters You can use either upper or lowercase letters numbers and 60 certain symbols to name games You also have the option of adding a 1 3 character extension An extension is separated from the rest of the filename by a period You also can type in a full pathname to store your files on a floppy diskette or in another subdirectory Here are some examples of acceptable filenames lisagame 1 Istzgame Carol 3 8 89 gam game5 ha NOTE If you enter a filename that is longer than eight characters Hidden Agenda accepts the name but your operating system records the name as the first eight characters you entered Avoid using the following list of symbols and extensions because they are used by your operating system for program and system files 61 It would be a good idea to deve
29. her Edwin L Gasperini who liked to say Young people today should train for careers that don t even exist yet Jim Gasperini Acknowledgments For long hours of advice inspiration background information and story suggestions our chief consultants have been invaluable William Gasperini Managua correspondent for In These Times The Christian Science Monitor and Pacifica Radio Susan Besse Assistant Professor of Latin American History City College of the City University of New York To the extent that the world of Chimerica reflects Central American reality their work has been invaluable To the extent that it does not the errors are our own We would also like to thank Anne Teshima whose patience and support sustained TRANS in ways few people will ever know let alone comprehend Jeanne North Emile Nava and the All Souls Central America Study Group Carolyn Reed and the Upper West Side Tipitapa Sister Cities Project Steven Golub Ellen Oxfeld Basu and Dipu Basu David Durrell Lynel Horne and Dennis Long Bill Fleming Eric Ehrmann Eugene Epstein and the photogenic doormen of West End Avenue and Riverside Drive For photographic sources William Gasperini Jim Gasperini Jeff Perkell and Kate Pourshariati Our thanks also to Elise Witt and the Small Family Orchestra for the use of excerpts from their video Notes from Nicaragua Pegajosa Productions 1083 Austin Avenue NE Atlanta GA 30307 Contents
30. ing economic situation a splintered military shortages of food and a potential power vacuum now that the strong hand of rarsante no longer guides the nation searching for historical parallels one might hest yg current situation to the fall of Haitian despot Baby Doc Duvalier in ki if SET ie To see the charts select the Progress Charts option The following screen appears ei gt cy a OO Newesthews ERMIN Jiii PILITARY EXPENSES in millions of US dollars incial Spending Infant Mortality Reports T ERNIE Land Distribution Select different options to move through the different newspaper reports The options have the following OPS functions TA e Oldest News to read the very first news report on or your government It is a quick way to move to the plus military expenditures beginning of the reports Hi litary purchases amp aid fron US lfi itary purchases amp aid fron Next to read the news report immediately following USSR amp Cuba the one on the screen YOUR PRESIDENCY BEGINS The lines on the chart between 1 and 0 indicate the trend of a specific factor Military Expenses for example during the year prior to the Revolution Your presidency begins at 0 and the chart reflects how decisions you make during your three years in office affect each specific factor Every time you select Progress
31. inisters You have the power to remove a minister from office To fire a minister select the Minister Dossiers option A list of the minister positions appears Select the minister you want to fire dimmed button ASUNTOS EXTERNOS If a button appears dimmed that means the ministerial post has not been filled A dimmed button cannot be selected 34 The minister s dossier appears National Liberation Grew up in a well to do Julio Olivares Las Casas family since taking his vows has been a tireless advocate for the rights of the poor gave refuge to the ver Fi opposition during the Insurrection narrowly eones i arrest on numerous ll known writer and preni of Liberation Theology after adwonishment fron the Vatican against direct involvement in political affairs left the Society of esus in order to devote his full energies to the service of my people Age 39 pt his writings and sermons he has called sweeping land reform to help the poorest Chimericans to help themselves curbing the abusive power of the military phe natiguwide campaign to teach the poor or reducing dependency on larger nations To fire the minister select Request Resignation 35 The minister s response appears on your screen Julio Olivares Las Casas The newly ousted minister stands before you id iy with are Sut for the deep and jabiding love I hold for our dear nation nothing would have induced me
32. ion Consultations provide you with the most complete range of advice concerning a particular issue Although you can make every decision on the spot with Influentials you may miss important warnings from your ministers 9l regarding the consequences of your decisions Therefore the safest route is to consult with your ministers A disadvantage to making all your decisions through Consultations is that you can lose touch with your people Ministers may be reluctant to raise certain issues of concern to your people because they fear your decision may divert resources away from their pet projects For example your Internal Affairs Minister may know that the campesinos are concerned about the educational system but the minister is much more concerned with large scale economic development projects Your minister may not raise the education issue with you and the only way you would hear of the problem is to meet with the campesinos Gaining support through Consultations The support of your ministers and Junta members is tied directly to the decisions you make on issues of importance to them You increase a Junta member s support by appointing him or her to a ministerial post and by making decisions that agree with his or her position on an issue On the other hand if you fire a minister or make a decision against his or her position you may lose some support The support of your ministers is critical to the effective implementation
33. ive B At the A gt prompt type ha or agenda and press Enter Within a few seconds you will see the Hidden Agenda introduction screen At this point you are ready to begin the game Hard drive users If you want to install Hidden Agenda on your hard drive follow these steps Turn on the computer Create a directory for Hidden Agenda using the DOS Make Directory command For example type MD HADIR and press Enter E If you are using a 3 1 2 disk drive insert the Hidden Agenda disk into the disk drive Then use the DOS copy command to copy all the files For example type COPY A C HADIR then press Enter w If you are using two 5 1 4 disk drives insert Disk 1 into drive A Type COPY A C HADIR and press Enter Then remove Disk 1 and insert Disk 2 into drive A Again type COPY A C HADIR and press Enter Basic operations Choices are made in Hidden Agenda by selecting icons buttons or drawers The term select means you highlight an item by using the up and down arrow keys on your keyboard then choose it by pressing Enter Whenever an item is highlighted and you press Enter an action takes place Be careful to notice what is highlighted before you press Enter selected option lwssiers On line help On line help is available if you need more information about the program feature you are currently using Whenever you need help select the question mark icon A help window will appear Af
34. lop your own filenaming code to make it easier for you to remember specific games Here are a few suggestions e Use the date that you played the game as the filename 9 10 89 Add the extension gam for game to the end of each filename Tony gam E Adda number extension at the end of each filename savegame 3 e Add the extension ha for Hidden Agenda to the end of each filename Istgame ha Once you have named the game select OK and press Enter to save it NOTE You can specify full path names when saving games See your operating system reference manual for information on path names If you have previously saved a game and want to save it again the name you originally gave the game appears in the name box Either choose OK or type in a new name If you choose OK a prompt asks if you want to replace the previous game Replacing means that the current game will be saved and the previous one erased To keep both the previous game and the current one give the current game a new name and save it Restore To continue a game that you saved choose the Restore drawer When you select Restore the following box appears on your screen Enter the nane of the file you wish to retrieve Type in the name of the game you want to restore Then select OK and press Enter The game is retrieved and you are in the Presidente s office ready to continue playing Help The Help drawer gives a brief description of the mai
35. n features in the Presidente s office To close the help window press any key Quit Choose the Quit drawer only when you want to end a session of Hidden Agenda When you select Quit you are returned to the system prompt 63 During an Interrupt you must either accept the eaten Influential s proposal or the advising minister s advice Occasionally Influentials or ministers interrupt your ees PERSE OT AN PE trat ey feed JS have been Hector Ferrera tucks his hard hat under his Hector Ferrera Contreras neglecting and demand a decision from you The ame and strides forward following is an example of an Interrupt Presidente the situation is intolerable Ihe same heans that last week cost one chimera today cost five Workers with good Jobs can barely afford to pay the family grocery hill And what about the really poor the ones with no jobs at all They cannot even afford corn and beans Something must he done isk Jor Havice Agree to Proposal Streets of Poyais n gry Ponsa Set price controls for hasic gods Thousands of urban residents both workers and unenploved arch through the streets of the capital protesting skyrocketing food prices Union organizer Hector Ferrera Contreras is among them Memos A minister or an Influential may send a memo to inform you of some action taken without your prior knowledge Although your power to run Chimerica is granted by Memos provide you with clues
36. nker Gloria Jimenez Fleming Cuban Consul Julio Olivares Las Casas Manuel Calderon Iglesias Chimerica Ahora Press El Independiente Bernardo Whitm re Alvarado Digests Edition Mondiale Popular Stability Antonio Alejos Espinales USA Yesterday Francisco Rosario Rosanes Agriculture Minister Encounters Influentials Consultations Defense Minister National Liberation 1 Military Expenses Social ending Infant Mortalit Logbook Meetings 1 9 Land Distribution Progress Food Crops Charts Export Crops Hard Currency Earnings Currency Reserves etc Loans and Aid 22 23 Contacts Use the Contacts option to appoint fire and reappoint ministers One of your first tasks as Presidente is to appoint your cabinet ministers Your cabinet will consist of you and the ministers of four departments Agriculture Defense Internal Affairs and External Affairs You select your ministers from the members of the Junta of the Insurrection The ministers advise you by presenting policy options on the issues that confront your government They also carry out your decisions Once you select Contacts in the Presidente s office you have two options Party Dossiers and Minister Dossiers A dossier is a description of the background and political positions of a party or individual If you have not yet appointed any ministers the Minister Dossiers will be inactive The Party Dossiers are always active
37. o quickly zip through the first time you play to get a feel for the game and then play again so you can figure out what all the fireworks were about There is no right or wrong way to play the game each of these styles produces a rewarding experience 15 A game begins When you start Hidden Agenda see Quick Start section for information on starting the following screen appears by Jim Gasperini Gregory Guerin Jim Gasperini Ron Martinez GRADHICS Angela Greene Hidden Agenda iin A DOST REVOLUTIONARY GAME Press Enter and your signing in ceremony begins 16 Signing in ceremony Enter your name After typing in a name press Enter to move to the next name box Congratulations Presidente Hith the completion of a formal Signing in ceremny your term as Presidente of Chimerica will officially kegin Please sign the official fora and get ready for your first press jconference In the 2nd Last name box enter your mother s maiden name If you make an error in entering a name and want to go back and correct it use the up or down arrow key to move the cursor When the cursor moves to a name box use the Backspace key to erase the name and type in the correct name A word about Spanish naming conventions In Spanish speaking countries people use two last names their father s surname and their mother s maiden name 2nd Last The father s name comes first and the mother s name last but the father
38. oans but the negotiations must be carried out with the IMF representative Gaining support through Encounters Each character in Hidden Agenda has an opinion of how well you are performing the duties of Presidente Characters opinions indicate their level of support for you As you make or fail to make decisions support goes up or down Just having an Encounter with an Influential increases your support a little but to really make an Influential happy you have to agree with his or her requests Agreeing to one Influential s requests however will often make another Influential unhappy You may be able to tell how an Influential s support has shifted by observing changes in his or her behavior For example if an ambassador s support decreases you 41 may notice the ambassador s government changing Consultations some of its policies toward Chimerica If someone attempts a coup your survival depends on how much support you have among the Influentials Consultations are meetings with your ministers You meet with an individual minister initially but can ask for advice from all your ministers In a Consultation you choose the issues to discuss review all the options and Placing issues on a minister s agenda ta make your decision It is completely up to you Influentials usually want quick decisive action on your part but sometimes you will want to consult your ministers to get a wider range of advice and options for
39. of your policies When a minister supports you he or she is likely to accept your authority and implement your policy even if he or she doesn t agree with it However if a minister s support is weak he or she may do one of the following resign from the cabinet demand your resignation pretend to agree with you but implement his or her own policy instead or even attempt a military coup against your government Logbook The logbook records your meetings during the current season It shows who you met with meeting dates the issue or proposal discussed and your decision To view the logbook select Logbook in the Presidente s office A screen appears which lists the meetings you have had Meeting 1 i hee ting T The jate First Year Dry Season Week O m Meeting 2 Met with Coffee Horker Advising Agriculture Kinister Meeting 3 The Coffee Worker s proposal Meeting Hd Divide credit resources between the food growers and the producers of export crops Meeting Decided itil i J Mee itig i ATE to place this on minister s agenda naniii itekeiigiatii A ii aT ji Meany Hi it iff iit HL ee iii mh 53 Review a different meeting by selecting the number of the meeting from the list To print a copy of the entire logbook select Print Entire Log Reports Like any Presidente you need to be concerned with public opinion and with the economic and social progress of your country
40. ountries You now have five choices Appoint To to appoint this individual as minister review e Christian Reform or other party name another party member s dossier 30 e Party Dossiers return to the party dossier screen to select a different party e Dossiers return to the main dossier screen E Desk icon return to your office without making an appointment It s up to you to decide what strategies to pursue in appointing ministers You can try to build as broad based a coalition as possible or to concentrate on pushing through a consistent program by appointing as many advisors as possible from one party Here are some things to consider Broad coalition if you appoint at least one minister from each party you will probably receive the broadest range of advice possible in Consultations Focused platform to build a cabinet that thinks alike on major issues you can appoint as many ministers as possible from the party you support This results in fewer problems with ministers disagreeing with your policy decisions However a focused platform will strengthen the strong polarizing forces that already exist in Chimerica which may lead to an early coup attempt Appointing ministers There are four ministerial positions to fill Agriculture Minister Defense Minister Internal Affairs Minister External Affairs Minister For descriptions of the 31 Select the position you want to appoint the member to
41. please everybody Will you give the cotton cultivators what they ask for and ignore the wishes of the landless laborers If you do your schedule may soon be interrupted by an angry crowd massed outside the National Palace The next step is up to you All of Chimerica all of Latin America all the world wait to see just what course of action you have in mind About this manual There is no elaborate system of rules and procedures to master before you can begin playing Hidden Agenda Most people will benefit from looking over the information in the Quick Start section but you can master the mechanics of playing the game in a few minutes Later sections of this manual offer more detailed discussion of game play additional suggestions and background material designed to enrich the experience and put it in context You may wish to read this after you play through the game once or twice See the Reference Manual for historical information on Chimerica descriptions of political parties charts and a glossary of terms This manual has three sections E Before You Begin describes the hardware and software requirements and tells you to make the working copy you will need to run Hidden Agenda Quick Start tells you how to start the program and describes basic keyboard operations and on line help Playing Hidden Agenda highlights the principle game features and actions you will perform as Presidente of Chimerica Read this
42. s in the way ministers react to your decisions Time in Hidden Agenda Time is of the essence in Chimerica You have a limited amount of time to make decisions and some decisions take longer than others There are three units of time in Chimerica move season and year Move A move occurs when you meet with an Influential or minister and make a decision Each meeting or decision you make requires two weeks Therefore a move equals two weeks Your first decision is recorded at the date Year 1 Week 0 The second decision or meeting occurs in Year 1 Week 2 It is important to keep this in mind because your term in office is only three years and you should take care of the most important decisions as soon as possible The calendar in your office keeps track of how much time has elapsed 67 Season The three seasons are Dry Rainy and Harvest Each time a season passes an animated screen appears to inform you of the change A season consists of nine moves Year A year is made up of three seasons Your term of office can last for three years if you are not assassinated or forced to resign There are three basic ways time elapses in Chimerica E You make a decision during an Encounter with an Influential or in a Consultation with a minister Each decision uses two weeks To put an issue on a minister s agenda also uses two weeks but no decision is made at that point In order to make a decision on the issue you hav
43. sante is finally over By the time he left his legendary corruption and brutality managed to alienate all sectors of Chimerican society None of the groups that opposed Farsante were strong enough to dominate this post Farsante era so they have joined together ina coalition Junta of the Insurrection The Junta has decided that someone must lead Chimerica in its hour of need By popular mandate that someone is you You are now Presidente Your powers as Presidente The powers granted to you by the Junta are vast but not unlimited Your policy options in Hidden Agenda are presented through dialogue in face to face Encounters with members of the public known as Influentials or in Consultations with the ministers of your cabinet In each dialogue someone gives a short speech explaining his or her position on the current issue and proposes what you should do You decide which proposals to accept but keep in mind that you do not have the power to make proposals of your own The Junta Your fellow Junta members represent three very different political parties and usually argue radically 12 different points of view The Junta members you appoint to each ministry determine which policy issues you hear about and they carry out your decisions Each of the three parties contains three Junta members which gives you a total of nine people from which to pick your cabinet Since there are only four ministry positions you can make one part
44. se the range of options available to the player would have been drastically curtailed So instead we present a situation of tension between two antipathic forces merged into one modelling events and characters on the recent military histories of Haiti the Philippines El Salvador Guatemala Honduras and Nicaragua Though such a merger of contesting forces has been proposed many times in El Salvador there is no real historical precedent for the situation that meets the player at the outset of the game We nevertheless feel that such a dynamic offers the player the fullest opportunity to explore the complexities of the role of the military in Central America Inevitably we have had to schematize reducing complex life and death conflicts to battles of words between spokesmen for professions and classes Many important aspects of Central American life have been left out entirely relations with neighboring countries ethnic conflicts inflation An entire simulation could focus on only one of the issues we touch on here such as land reform Someday somebody will create such a game For now we hope Hidden Agenda will shed some light on the central conflicts behind today s and tomorrow s headlines The Japanese observe about foreigners After a week in Japan they re ready to write a book After a month they re ready to write an article After a year they re too 73 confused by the facts to write anything at all Some
45. section if you want to jump right in and try Hidden Agenda E Instructions provides an overview and explains each program feature in detail Before You Begin Hardware and software requirements To run Hidden Agenda you need IBM Tandy or true compatible computer One 3 1 2 disk drive or two 5 1 4 disk drives 512K memory Color graphics adaptor card CGA or any graphics card that emulates CGA 640 x 200 e DOS 2 0 or higher Optional hardware e Hard drive m Printer For information on how to set up your system printer or other hardware refer to the related hardware manuals You will find the specifications you need there Making a working copy As a convenience to registered users Hidden Agenda is not copy protected This allows you to make a copy of your software to use as a working copy Use your favorite copy utility to make a backup copy Once you have made a backup copy of Hidden Agenda be sure to write protect your backup copy and your original program disk Put the original in a safe place and work only with your backup Please do not give a copy to anyone that is a violation of copyright laws Quick Start Starting Hidden Agenda Floppy drive users Insert your operating system disk in a drive and turn on the computer If you are using a 3 1 2 disk drive insert the Hidden Agenda disk into the disk drive If you are using two 5 1 4 disk drives insert Disk 1 into drive A and Disk 2 into dr
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48. ter you are done reading the information press any key to close the window When you are in the Presidente s office select the Help drawer for information on the office features Playing Hidden Agenda This section is for players who want to jump right in and play Hidden Agenda with very little instruction before beginning For more details on Hidden Agenda read the Instructions section For history and background information on Chimerica refer to the Reference Manual 1 Start the program 2 Sign in Type in the name you will use during the game 3 Hold your first press conference A group of reporters asks you three questions Your answers define your goals for your term as Presidente Select an answer to each question 4 Become familiar with your office This is your office in the National Palace From your desktop select a desktop icon or drawer to move to other areas of game play Here s a brief description of the desktop icons Contacts Choose Contacts to review the dossiers biographies of members of the Junta of Insurrection appoint them as ministers to your cabinet or request that they resign Consultations Choose Consultations to meet with the ministers you have appointed select issues to discuss from their agendas and make decisions about important matters of state Encounters Choose Encounters to meet with Influentials business leaders union officials ambassadors from other countries et
49. thing similar happened to us in the process of researching writing and designing Hidden Agenda We ve gone from thinking we understood something about Central America to thinking we understand little more than the limits of our own ignorance We have tried to give our characters as wide a range of opinions as possible and to present events through their eyes Not being from Central America ourselves however we can only present what we imagine to be Central American perspectives If this game has a hidden agenda of its own it is to demonstrate the untapped power of the interactive medium Since combat is relatively easy to simulate in a computer game most simulations that touch at all on political themes assume there is a war on and cast the player as combatant Others portray the world as a giant superpower chessboard in which smaller countries are something less than pawns We hope Hidden Agenda will give players a taste of how it feels to live in one of those pawns US policy towards Central America in the game though closely modelled on that of a recent Administration is based on perceptions that have guided US policy for over a century 1 Central America is part of the US sphere of influence our back yard The influence of other countries Bolshevik Mexico in the 1920s communist Cuba 74 ey can be seen in the conflicts that periodically erupt there 2 Instability in the region is a thre
50. to join your wretched government in the first place I will use all my influence to rid this land of the Shadow you cast upon it Dossiers a Reappointing ministers The reappointment process is the same as the appointment process Encounters An Encounter is a meeting with an Influential The people with whom you hold meetings as Presidente are called Influentials All hold positions of leadership in your country During an Encounter an Influential presents a proposal on some issue Because you usually decide which Influential you want to meet with and when you control which issues you confront 36 When you select Encounters from the desktop in your office a list of Influentials you can meet with appears The Encounter begins when you select an individual Select Someone to Encounter LIMF Representative The Doctor The Teacher The Campesino Cotton Cultivator TTI USA Ambassador The Bishop Guard Leader Rights Activist Industrialist Banker ee Worker Cuban Consul In an Encounter you have three choices a Continue This Encounter to meet this Influential e See Bio to get further information on the Influential 37 Have Another Encounter to meet with a different Influential Sergio Espinosa Castaneda Encountering Sergio Espinosa Castaneda Coffee producing estate in Trinidad Province Fonwer y Tee CU ie mR AE a Continue This Encounter Have Another Encounter
51. to other characters popular mandate you do not have unlimited power hidden agendas While you carry out your course of action your ministers or Influentials may be following their own private agendas which may not agree with yours 64 65 Like Interrupts memos can appear at any time The following is an example of a memo Message from US Ambassador Buffard I am pleased to report that wy government has decided to resume Shipments of military ald to the Chimerican Army Arrangements are presentia being made with Colonel oracio Ehrlich NOTE Some memos are too long to fit on one screen A blinking rectangle cursor at the bottom of the screen indicates that more text follows Pressing almost any key shows you the next screen Hidden Agendas As Presidente you are not the only person making decisions in Chimerica Other characters in the game have their own goals and ambitions which they may attempt to hide from you A character who seems to be proposing one thing may in fact be proposing something 66 else or something with more far reaching consequences than the original proposal would suggest These plans are called hidden agendas The most obvious hidden agendas appear when ministers begin to withdraw their support When you make a decision against their proposals rather than accepting defeat or resigning the ministers may decide to ignore you and implement their own policies Watch for sudden change
52. y dominate the cabinet or you can try for a more balanced coalition You can also elect to change your cabinet by demanding the resignation of one character and appointing another in his or her place Options change as the game proceeds As time goes on you may find your range of options diminishing as certain characters depart into exile die or resign in disgust from your cabinet Influentials unhappy with the course of events may interrupt your schedule and force you to quickly decide on an issue Ministers may pretend to accept your decisions but then proceed to follow hidden agendas of their own The Junta may lose confidence in you and demand your resignation Someone on the Junta may even try to overthrow you If this happens whether you remain in office depends on how much support your policies have among the people of Chimerica Passing time Every time you make a decision time passes Your term in office can last for up to three years provided you aren t overthrown or voted out of office The Junta has indefinite plans for elections and you decide when or if they occur 13 Gauging your progress There are several ways to gauge your progress throughout the game Excerpts from four different newspapers provide clues about how your decisions have been received Charts track social indicators like the Infant Mortality Rate and economic indicators such as the Foreign Exchange Reserves e The characters themselv
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