gball (1) - Linux Manuals

gball: The Console Ball and Racket Game

NAME

GBall - The Console Ball and Racket Game

SYNOPSIS

gball [OPTIONS]

DESCRIPTION

GBall is a simple yet nice implementation of the well known ball and racket game. It is designed to run under the GNU/Linux console (including terminal emulators). The aim of the game is simple: control your racket and move it around to bounce the ball and hit all the bricks. If the ball hits a wall, it will bounce. If it fell down the screen without bouncing on the racket, you lose. The game includes 10 levels with an option to play levels randomly, and a high score board.

The racket is controlled by using the arrows keys, or the "a" and "d" keys as shown below.

 +---+                 +----+
 |   |                 |    |
 +---+                 +----+
+---+---+---+ +----+----+----+
| a | | d | | LT | | RT |
+---+---+---+ +----+----+----+

OPTIONS

-h, --help

Print command line help

-v, --version

Display program version and exit

-l, --level n

Start playing from level 'n'

FILES

~/.gball Special file used to store highscores information.

TODO

- Testing and debugging

AUTHOR

Mohammed Isam <mohammed_isam1984 [at] yahoo.com>