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NAME
       powermanga - shoot-'em-up game

SYNOPSIS
       powermanga [OPTIONS]

DESCRIPTION
       Powermanga is a shoot'em up game; you will have to fight more than 60
       different types of enemies.

       You start with a ship, and enemies show up throwing bombs at you. Shoot
       them, and get better weapons for your ship (otherwise, you won't go too
       far!)

       To get better weapons, you will have to catch green and red gems.
       Whenever you pick a green gem, the highlighted option at the right side
       of the screen goes up one unit.

       The options are, from the bottom to the top:

       - More speed

       - More energy to your ship
              If you get out of energy, you lose your ship. Losing your ship
              means either going back to the ship you were using before you
              "upgraded' it, or dying if you had no previous ship! You can
              check your energy level in the little bar at the bottom (the bar
              at the right is yours; the one at the left is your enemy's, in
              case you're fighting a big one)

       - Several options for different weapons

       - The last option gets you a better ship

       If the current option is "more power to the leftside straight weapons",
       for example, you may select it and they will immediately take effect.

       If the current option is already the last, and you pick a green or red
       gem, you will go back to the first one (but you will get an extra side-
       weapon). Also, whenever you pick an option, the current option goes
       back to the first one.

THE GEMS
       During the game, you will sometimes see gems falling down when an enemy
       is destroyed. You may catch those gems:

       - Green gems
              As we said before, makes the current option go up one unit.

       - Red gems
              Similar to the green gem, but it increases 2 units instead of 1.

       - Pink gems
              Gives energy to your ship. If your energy is at the maximum
              level, this gem will give you a full blast that destroys all
              enemies currently on the screen.

       - Blue gems
              They multiply the score points for each destroyed enemy by 2. If
              you get the blue gem again, the score points are multiplied by
              4; you can see the "2x" or "4x" blinking at the sidebar.

       - Yellow gems
              These give you protection balls. If you already have six
              protection balls and you get another yellow gem, you will get a
              special weapon!

CHANGING SHIPS
       When you get a better ship, you will be able to accumulate more energy,
       becoming more resistant to attacks. But whenever you "upgrade" your
       ship, a few things will happen:

       - Protection
              You will lose all your protection balls (let's say they're not
              "compatible" with your new ship).

       - Weapons
              You will lose one "degree" in your weapons (if you had used
              green gems to get the best possible weapon for shooting straight
              forward, for example, after upgrading your ship you will have to
              get one more green gem if you want your weapons at the maximum
              power.)

       - Score
              If your score was getting multiplied by 2 or 4, it won't be
              anymore (go get more blue gems!)

KEYS
       In the main menu, use the arrow keys and enter. To play the game, use
       the arrow keys to move, space for shooting and control to pick a
       selected option.

       Also:

        CTRL+S           enable/disable the music
        CTRL+Q           finish the play current
        CTRL+A           about Powermanga
        ALT+F4           quit Powermanga
        P or Pause/Break enable/disable pause
        F or F11         switch between full screen and windowed mode
        PAGE UP          volume up
        PAGE DOWN        volume down

OPTIONS
       Valid command line options:

       -h, --help
              prints help message and exit

       --version
              prints version information and exit

       --window
              windowed mode (full screen by default)

       --2x   scale2x effects which scale the image of 2x

       --3x   scale3x effects which scale the image of 3x

       --4x   scale4x effects which scale the image of 4x

       --320  the game will run in a 320*200 window

       --fullscreen
              the game will run in full screen

       -v     verbose mode

       --verbose
              verbose mode (with more messages)

       --nosound
              disable sound

       --sound
              enable sound

       --nosync
              disable timer

       --easy make the game easier by giving more bonuses

       --hard make the game harder

FILES
       /usr/local/share/powermanga/graphics/
              Graphics files.
       /usr/local/share/powermanga/data/
              Levels and data files.
       /usr/local/share/powermanga/sounds/
              Sound files.
       /usr/local/share/powermanga/texts/
              Texts files.

ENVIRONMENT
       HOME   Used to search for graphics and sounds.

AUTHOR
       Powermanga - Copyright TLK Games. You are free to redistribute and/or
       change it under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
       This manual page was written by Jeronimo Pellegrini
       <pellegrini@mpcnet.com.br>, based on the previous one by Sam Hocevar
       <sam@zoy.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by
       others).

                                  2014-08-17                     POWERMANGA(6)