BATRACHIANS(6)

NAME
batrachians - A fly-eating frog game

SYNOPSIS
batrachians

DESCRIPTION

batrachians is a game where you control a red frog and your goal is to eat more flies and score more points than the computer's frog, which is gray. A game lasts three minutes, during which day becomes night.

Above your frog, you will see crosshairs of the same color. You can move it with the four arrow keys. The crosshairs designate the highest point of the jump you want your frog to make. Typically, you should put the crosshairs near the fly you want to catch, and then hit the left Ctrl key to jump.

While in the air, you must press the left Shift key to make your frog stick out its tongue. Your frog will eat any fly that its tongue touches.

Avoid falling in the water: you frog will waste time while it swims back to a lily pad.

The Escape key quits the game.

OPTIONS

--help
    display a help page and exit

--version
    display version information and exit

--ms-per-frame=N
    N milliseconds per animation frame. Default is 25. Minimum is 1. Maximum is 1000. 25 means 40 frames per second.

--no-sound
    Disable the sound effects, which are enabled by default.

--full-screen
    Attempt to use the full screen mode. The default is to display the game in an ordinary window.

LICENSE
This program is free software; you may redistribute it under the terms of the GNU General Public License. This program has absolutely no warranty.

AUTHORS
Pierre Sarrazin (code)

FILES
This program uses the flatzebra library, by the same author. This library is itself based on the SDL graphics library (see http://www.libsdl.org).

See the Batrachians Home Page:
http://sarrazip.com/dev/batrachians.html

BUGS
The sound effects may be annoying.

High scores are not remembered.

No attempt was made to emulate the exact behavior of the original game.