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 triangle, 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 purpose 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>