Ubuntu Manpage: Nikwi_Deluxe - platform game where the goal is to collect candies

Provided by: nikwi_0.0.20120213-4_amd64

NAME

       Nikwi_Deluxe - platform game where the goal is to collect candies

SYNOPSIS

       nikwi [--fullscreen]

DESCRIPTION

       You  play as a 9 year old boy in a game about his absolute dream: a world made of candies!
       Your role is to guide Nikwi through all the 30 levels, eat all the candies in  each  level
       and  avoid the monsters and the hazards that each level has. Nikwi has a talent on jumping
       high - although his falls are not as good as he would like - and this is  his  only  armor
       against the monsters which try to turn his dream into a nightmare.

       Every six levels, the theme changes and the gameplay is altered a bit. Every two levels or
       so, new monsters appear - monsters which require different approaches to be taken in order
       to avoid them.

USAGE

The game contains two main screens, the menu and the game:

The menu
The menu is the screen in which you enter when the game starts. It contains three options:
New Game, Credits and Quit. You can use the arrows keys up and down to select a menu
option (two bobbing candies appear at the left and at the right of the selected option)
and the Enter key to activate the selected option. The options act as follows:

New game - This option begins a new game. If you already have a game in the process and
you went to the menu by pressing ESC (see the Controls part of this manual below), the
current game is ended and a new game begins from the first level.
Credits - It shows a screen with information about the game's developers.
Quit - It immediately quits the game. The shareware version will show some teaser
screenshots of the full version before quitting.

The game
This is where all the fun takes place. In the game screen you see your character, Nikwi,
the monsters, the hazards, the candies and the setting itself. For information about
controlling Nikwi, see below.

Some screens -like the Credits screen- wait from the user to press a key in order to
dissappear and others -like the logo screen at the beginning on the game- to wait for a
few seconds.

Controls
You control Nikwi using the keyboard. The keys are presented in the table below:

Arrow left/right - Make Nikwi walk to the left or the right direction. If Nikwi is in
the air, he turn to that direction.

Arrow up - Make Nikwi jump. Nikwi needs to be on ground in order to jump, but he can
also air-jump: if he leaves the ground without jumping (by falling), he can jump in the
middle air. Mastering air jumping will help the player to complete the game faster.

F6 - Restart level. If you get stuck in a level or you think you can't go back, use F6
to restart the level. There are unlimited times you can play a level, so don't feel bad if
you restart a level.

F10 - Quick quit. If, for any reason, you want to exit the game as quickly as possible,
press F10 and your wish will become true: the game will exit instantly, like if nothing
has happened. Note that the shareware version will pop a message reminding you to obtain
the full version.

ESC - Pauses the game and goes back to the menu.

OPTIONS

       These command line options are available:

         --fullscreen
              You can use fullscreen mode by running the game as "nikwi --fullscreen"

REQUIREMENTS

       Nikwi requires at least a Pentium 3 or later CPU to work (it may work with older CPUs, but
       the use of older CPUs than Pentium 3 is not recommended  and  definitelly  not  supported)
       running at least at 600MHz. It also requires a graphics card that can support 640x480 with
       16bits of color (most cards that are available for Pentium 3 support this  mode).  Lastly,
       it requires at least 32MB of system RAM memory.

       For  smooth gameplay, a CPU running at 2GHz and a video card with 2D acceleration and 16MB
       of video ram is recommended. In order to take advantage of the 2D acceleration, Nikwi must
       be run in fullscreen mode.

       Nikwi requires Windows 2000, Windows XP or newer or Linux with kernel 2.6 or newer. It may
       work on other operating systems, but we cannot provide support for them.

       For Linux users: Nikwi requires the latest version of SDL (has been  tested  and  compiled
       with  SDL  1.2.9).  Most  Linux distributions include SDL, but if yours doesn't -or if the
       version included is very old- visit http://www.libsdl.org/ to obtain it.

       Note: the game may or may not run in order and weaker systems than those mentioned  above.
       In any case, the use in such systems is discouraged and not supported.

AUTHOR

       Nikwi was written by Kostas "Bad Sector" Michalopoulos <badsector@slashstone.com>.

       This manual page was written for Debian by Miriam Ruiz <little_miry@yahoo.es>.