xcentipede 0.01 - a simple game for x --------------------------- You control a centipede, and the aim of the game is to eat all the mushrooms. Each mushroom you eat increases your length, whilst eating a heart reduces it. Colliding either with your own tail or a skull means starting the level from scratch. When you have eaten all the mushrooms, you can progress to the next, harder, level. The default keys are z, turn clockwise, x, turn anticlockwise and q to quit the game. Command line options: --------------------- -s You use this option to specify how slow you want the game to play. The default value is 1000, you'll need to fiddle to get it right for your system and personal preferences. Ideally, this would have been in centi- seconds, but I wanted to keep this portable, and a simple, portable way of timing in units smaller than seconds proved hard to find. -a, -c, -q Set the control keys. -w, -h Set the width and height of the game window, in 16 pixel units. -d Set the difficulty level (default is 0). -t Disables wraparound, so there's walls around the edge of the playing area. Bugs: ----- Xcentipede doesn't handle the window being the wrong size gracefully. You can freely copy and distribute these files, provided they are left unaltered, and this notice is present. No warranty is given. If you've enjoyed this game, you've found a bug, or have a suggestion, please drop me an email. :) Peter Warden 30th July 1996 wardenp@cs.man.ac.uk