NAME¶

toppler - clone of the old "Nebulus" game

SYNOPSIS¶

toppler [-f] [-h] [-s] [-dNUM ]

DESCRIPTION¶

This manual page documents briefly thetopplercommand.
The goal of the game is to reach the target door of each of the 8towers in currently 2 missions with this little green animal. Thisdoor is usually at the very top of the tower.
But finding the way by using elevators and walking trough a maze ofdoors and platforms is not the only problem you have to solve. Thereare a bunch of other creatures living on the tower that will hinderyou to reach your target by pushing you over the edge of theplatforms.
The only weapon of defence you have is to throw a little snowball. Butmost of the other creatures just don't care about this. So you mustavoid them.
A little submarine brings you from one tower to the next. On this wayyou have the chance to get some bonus points by catching fish. All youhave to do is to catch a fish in a bubble with your torpedo and thencollect the fish.

CONTROLS¶

In the menu you can select the mission you want to play next with theleft and right cursor keys. Press space or return on the start menuitem to start the game.
The animal is controlled by the cursor keys and space (or return).Leftandrightmake the animal walk.Upanddownmake the elevatorsmove if you are on one. (The elevator platforms are a littlebit smaller than the normal platforms.)If you are in front of a door press up to enter it.Pressing thespacekey will either throw a snowball if you arestanding still or make the animal jump if you are walking.
In the level designer, pressF1orhfor the online help.

OPTIONS¶

The program understands the following command line options.

-f

Starts the game in fullscreen mode. But be careful! If the gamecrashes it doesn't restore the original resolution, it stays in 640x480pixel mode.

-h

Display short usage information and exit.

-s

Makes the game silent. If you don't have a soundcard or for anotherreason get an "can't open audio" error try this option.

-dNUM

Sets the debugging level; NUM is between 0 and 9, and the higher it is, the more information toppler will print out to the console. (The default debugging level is 0.)

AUTHOR¶

Toppler was written by Andreas Röver <roever@users.sf.net>. Later PasiKallinen contributed a lot of code.
This manual page was written by Ben Bell <bjb@debian.org>for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).It was revised by Dylan Thurston <dpt@math.harvard.edu>,and by Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>.