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6 toppler - clone of the old "Nebulus" game
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9 toppler [-f] [-h] [-s] [-dNUM ]
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12 This manual page documents briefly the toppler command.
13 The goal of the game is to reach the target door of each of the 8 tow‐
14 ers in currently 2 missions with this little green animal. This door is
15 usually at the very top of the tower.
16 But finding the way by using elevators and walking trough a maze of
17 doors and platforms is not the only problem you have to solve. There
18 are a bunch of other creatures living on the tower that will hinder you
19 to reach your target by pushing you over the edge of the platforms.
20 The only weapon of defence you have is to throw a little snowball. But
21 most of the other creatures just don't care about this. So you must
22 avoid them.
23 A little submarine brings you from one tower to the next. On this way
24 you have the chance to get some bonus points by catching fish. All you
25 have to do is to catch a fish in a bubble with your torpedo and then
26 collect the fish.
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29 In the menu you can select the mission you want to play next with the
30 left and right cursor keys. Press space or return on the start menu
31 item to start the game.
32 The animal is controlled by the cursor keys and space (or return).
33 Left and right make the animal walk. Up and down make the elevators
34 move if you are on one. (The elevator platforms are a little bit
35 smaller than the normal platforms.) If you are in front of a door
36 press up to enter it. Pressing the space key will either throw a snow‐
37 ball if you are standing still or make the animal jump if you are walk‐
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39 In the level designer, press F1 or h for the online help.
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42 The program understands the following command line options.
43 -f Starts the game in fullscreen mode. But be careful! If the game
45 crashes it doesn't restore the original resolution, it stays in
46 640x480 pixel mode.
47 -h Display short usage information and exit.
49 -s Makes the game silent. If you don't have a soundcard or for an‐
51 other reason get an "can't open audio" error try this option.
52 -dNUM Sets the debugging level; NUM is between 0 and 9, and the higher
54 it is, the more information toppler will print out to the con‐
55 sole. (The default debugging level is 0.)
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58 Toppler was written by Andreas Röver <roever@users.sf.net>. Later Pasi
59 Kallinen contributed a lot of code.
60 This manual page was written by Ben Bell <bjb@debian.org> for the De‐
61 bian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others). It was revised by
62 Dylan Thurston <dpt@math.harvard.edu>, and by Bill Allombert <bal‐
63 lombe@debian.org>.
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