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Game-PlatformsOfPeril-0.11
River stage zero No dependents
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NAME

pperil - the platforms of peril

SYNOPSIS

Usage: pperil [--err=file] [--level=N] [--prefix=path] [--seed=N]

  --err    - send STDERR to this file if not already redirected
  --ddelay - draw delay in seconds between moves
  --level  - level integer to start on
  --prefix - path to the levels directory (containing the files
             level0, level1, ...)
  --rdelay - delay (secs) following a rotation
  --seed   - PRNG uses the given integer as the seed

DESCRIPTION

Platforms of Peril is a terminal-based game. Help text should be printed when the game starts. Use the ? key in game to show the help text again.

You are the only spawn (son, daughter, etc.) of a Xorbian Ranger and as such are duty bound not to peruse pointless background material such as this. You have long hair, green eyes, and start the game with a bomb, and need to collect gems all the while avoiding the enemies. The enemies have been blessed with pretty much bog standard A* pathfinding yet do know a thing or two about gravity. Gems can be made into bombs (the details as to how are not entirely clear) and bombs in turn will explode on contact with things that move. You also have two magic boots, one on each foot. These do something when activated.

P.S. Do not drop a bomb while falling, as it will fall with you and then explode.

P.P.S. You can make bombs while falling. This is perhaps a more productive use of that time than mashing space or the . key.

Customizing the Game

pperil accepts a number of options that do not do very much:

Usage: pperil [--err=file] [--level=N] [--prefix=path] [--seed=N]

  --err    - send STDERR to this file if not already redirected
  --level  - level integer to start on
  --prefix - path to the levels directory (containing the files
             level0, level1, ...)
  --seed   - PRNG uses the given integer as the seed

Otherwise customizing the game will involve hacking directly at the module code or level maps, see "Known Issues".

Terminal Setup

This game may benefit from the use of a square font; ~/.Xdefaults might contain something like:

# "White Rabbit" square font (the name is "New" in the
# "whitrabt.ttf" file that I downloaded from who knows where)
wrterm*background:black
wrterm*colorMode:true
wrterm*cursorBlink:false
wrterm*cursorColor:white
wrterm*dynamicColors:true
wrterm*faceName:New
wrterm*faceSize:24
wrterm*foreground:gold
wrterm*geometry:70x24
wrterm*termName:xterm-256color

And with that loaded by X11 an xterm could be launched via:

xterm -class wrterm

to play the game in.

AUTHOR

Jeremy Mates