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TENMADO(6)							  tenmado manual							TENMADO(6)

NAME

       tenmado - hard-core shoot 'em up game in blue-or-red world

SYNOPSIS

       tenmado [ --dump stage ] [ --full-screen ] [ --help ] [ --slow ] [ --stage stage ] [ --undump stage ] [ --undump-default ] [ --version ]

DESCRIPTION

       tenmado	is  a  vertically scrolling, late 1990s style (that is, a massive number of enemy shots against a smaller-than-it-looks spaceship)
       shoot 'em up game.  A very accurate collision detection makes it a game of dexterity.  If something looks like a triangle, it is  a  trian-
       gle, not a rectangle of similar size.

       However,  surviving  is only 20% of the game.  The main feature of tenmado is the "color chain bonus".  You can get a very big score (about
       100 times bigger than a normal enemy-destruction point) by destroying enemies of the same color successively.   It  is  easy  or  difficult
       depending on how greedy you are.

       In  the game, use cursor keys to move, press space key to shoot (auto-repeat).  A joystick is also available for move and shoot.  Note that
       you must plug the joystick before you invoke tenmado.  For more information, see the tutorial demo by choosing it  from	the  menu  in  the
       title.  Also check the README file which can be found at /usr/share/doc/tenmado/README .

OPTIONS

       --dump stage
	      Write  high  score  data to standard output and exit.  Usually you save the output in a file and later use that file as the input of
	      --undump.  stage must be between 0 and 5.  stage 0 means total score.  stage 1 -- 5 means each stage score.

       --full-screen
	      Run the game in the full screen mode.

       --help Print a help message and exit.

       --slow Run the game at the half speed.  Technically, the length of waiting between each frame is doubled.  This slows  down  everything	in
	      the  game,  including  your  ship.  The idea is to study the enemy formations for a later (normal speed) play.  The animation may be
	      rough because this option gives you only about 16 fps.  You can't enter the high score lists with this option.

       --stage stage
	      Start the game at the specified stage.  stage must be between 1 and 5.  Note that you can play only one stage  (the  specified  one)
	      and you can't enter the high score lists.

       --undump stage
	      Read  high  score data from standard input, save them and exit.  The input is usually the output of --dump.  stage must be between 0
	      and 5.  stage 0 means total score.  stage 1 -- 5 means each stage score.	Only the superuser may use this option.

       --undump-default
	      If at least one high score list is empty, read the default high score data, save them and exit.  If not, do nothing.  The main  pur-
	      pose of this option is to create high score database files at installation time so that you can set their permission.

       --version
	      Print version information, license information and the disclaimer, then exit.

BUGS

       Please report any bugs you find to Oohara Yuuma <oohara@libra.interq.or.jp>.

AUTHOR

       Oohara Yuuma <oohara@libra.interq.or.jp>

Project Geeste							 Thu, 16 Jan 2003							TENMADO(6)

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SNAKE(6)							 BSD Games Manual							  SNAKE(6)

NAME

     snake, snscore -- display chase game

SYNOPSIS

     snake [-w width] [-l length] [-t]
     snscore

DESCRIPTION

     snake is a display-based game which must be played on a CRT terminal.  The object of the game is to make as much money as possible without
     getting eaten by the snake.  The -l and -w options allow you to specify the length and width of the field.  By default the entire screen is
     used.  The -t option makes the game assume you are on a slow terminal.

     You are represented on the screen by an I.  The snake is 6 squares long and is represented by s's with an S at its head.  The money is $, and
     an exit is #.  Your score is posted in the upper left hand corner.

     You can move around using the same conventions as vi(1), the h, j, k, and l keys work, as do the arrow keys.  Other possibilities include:

     sefc    These keys are like hjkl but form a directed pad around the d key.

     HJKL    These keys move you all the way in the indicated direction to the same row or column as the money.  This does not let you jump away
	     from the snake, but rather saves you from having to type a key repeatedly.  The snake still gets all his turns.

     SEFC    Likewise for the upper case versions on the left.

     ATPB    These keys move you to the four edges of the screen.  Their position on the keyboard is the mnemonic, e.g.  P is at the far right of
	     the keyboard.

     x	     This lets you quit the game at any time.

     p	     Points in a direction you might want to go.

     w	     Space warp to get out of tight squeezes, at a price.

     To earn money, move to the same square the money is on.  A new $ will appear when you earn the current one.  As you get richer, the snake
     gets hungrier.  To leave the game, move to the exit (#).

     A record is kept of the personal best score of each player.  Scores are only counted if you leave at the exit, getting eaten by the snake is
     worth nothing.

     As in pinball, matching the last digit of your score to the number which appears after the game is worth a bonus.

     To see who wastes time playing snake, run snscore.

FILES

     /var/games/snakerawscores	database of personal bests
     /var/games/snake.log	log of games played

BUGS

     When playing on a small screen, it's hard to tell when you hit the edge of the screen.

     The scoring function takes into account the size of the screen.  A perfect function to do this equitably has not been devised.

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