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Name

xkobo - a video-oriented game for X

Synopsis

xkobo [ options ]

Description

Xkobo is a single player action game. The play is quite simple. Your object is to destroy all the fortresses. You can control your ship by pressing the cursor keys (or moving the mouse cursor), and shot beams by pressing the SHIFT key (or the left mouse button). The game can be paused by pressing 's' (or the right mouse button).

Options

-display displayname
This option specifies the name of the X server to use.
-fit
This option causes xkobo to use the default colormap. Without this option, xkobo uses a private colormap.
-wait value
This option specifies the speed of the game. The default value is 30(msec).
-doublesize
This option causes xkobo to enlarge the size of the window. But it costs HUGE memory.
-fast
This option causes xkobo to use a faster algorithm. But it costs much memory.
-cheat
Cheat mode. It allows any level to be played, does not update score file.
-hiscores
Print the high score table to standard out, and exit.

Files

/usr/local/games/xkobo-scores/* - records of the game.

Author

Akira Higuchi (a-higuti@math.hokudai.ac.jp)

Copyright

Copyright (c) 1995,1996 Akira Higuchi

Xkobo is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License.


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