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NAME
       xbubble - an X Window based puzzle bubble clone

SYNOPSIS
       xbubble [OPTION]

DESCRIPTION
       XBubble is a Puzzle Bubble (PB) / Bust-A-Move (BAM) clone for Unix/X11
       platforms. It was written from scratch with no real intent to exactly
       reproduce the original game.

OPTIONS
       -d DISPLAY
              Set X display to DISPLAY.

       -s <scale>
              Set game window size ( 5 <= scale <= 100 ).  The game window
              size is normally automatically scaled to your screen size.  This
              option is useful to reduce load on slow/loaded systems. See also
              the -f option.

       -f <framerate>
              Adjust frame rate (in frames per second). Usual values are 100
              (default), 50, 33, 25, etc. The actual frame rate may be
              different from the one you specified, depending on system timer
              resolution. You can use this option to reduce load on
              slow/loaded systems (e.g. if sprite animation is jerky). See
              also the -s option.

       -r <resourcepath>
              Tell XBubble to look for its graphics files, fonts, etc. in
              directory <resourcepath>.

       -t <themename>
              Use the given theme (possible values are: plain, frozen, fancy).

PLAYING
       The goal is to clear all bubbles from your board and avoid bubbles
       dropping below the line at the bottom of the screen. You can rotate and
       fire a canon that launches colored bubbles. Bubbles bounce against the
       walls until they get stuck to another bubble. If you get three or more
       adjacent bubbles of the same color they all explode, while any bubble
       left hanging free falls down.

       In single player mode, the ceiling goes down every 12 launches so that
       you must clear the board before the ceiling touches the ground.

       In multi-player mode, the ceiling does not move but a fresh row of
       bubbles is added on top of the board while all bubbles are lowered by
       one row. Additionally, each time you explode three or more bubbles, all
       extra bubbles are sent ( with random colors ) to your opponent, as well
       all falling bubbles.  You win the round when your opponent loses ( has
       bubbles dropping across the bottom line ).

       After a few seconds delay, your canon launches its bubble anyway. You
       can tune this delay when selecting your handicap.  The higher the
       handicap, the shorter the delay.  When you receive bubbles from your
       opponent, you canon is blocked from firing until all received bubbles
       get stuck.

GAME CONTROL
       The game is entirely controlled using the keyboard:

       Player 1

              Left arrow / Keypad 4   =  Rotate canon left

              Right arrow / Keypad 6  =  Rotate canon right

              Up arrow / Keypad 5     =  Launch bubble

       Player 2

              x  =  Rotate canon left

              v  =  Rotate canon right

              c  =  Launch bubble

       General

              Up arrow / Keypad 8    =  Menu navigate up

              Down arrow / Keypad 2  =  Menu navigate down

              p                      =  Pause

              Escape / q             =  Abort

              There is no command-line option for changing control keys yet.

PLAYER VS COMPUTER MODE
       You can choose between 5 levels of difficulty.  Beware of the highest
       level if you have a slow machine, as it is quite CPU consuming.

BUGS
       Please report any bugs you find to Ivan <ivan@savannah.gnu.org>.

LICENSE
       xbubble is covered by the GNU General Public License (GPL).

SEE ALSO
       frozen-bubble(6).

AUTHOR
       Ivan Djelic <ivan@savannah.gnu.org> Martin Quinson
       <martin.quinson@tuxfamily.org>

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