NAME

       excellent-bifurcation - an abstract two-sided vertical shooter

SYNOPSIS

       excellent-bifurcation

DESCRIPTION

       The  aliens have attacked, and their ability to exist in either or both of their world and ours has given
       them an almost unsurpassable advantage.

       Take command of a special fighter craft capable of existing in both realities  at  once  and  drive  them
       back!

       The  form  your  fighter takes on the left has double fast-firing cannons and can charge to release up to
       eight seekers. It is ideal for destroying small and weak but numerous enemies. The right-hand form has  a
       single  powerful  cannon  which  fires  slowly but does far more damage, and is more suited to taking out
       larger enemies.  It can charge up to release a wave which passes through things, damaging them as it goes
       (unlike  the  beam  weapons, which only hit anything once no matter how thick it is). You can switch them
       between the worlds depending on what kind of firepower you need where.

KEYS

       Left, Right, Up, Down
              move the fighter across the screen

       Z      fire the main weapon

       X      charges your weapons

       C      switches your two forms between the two worlds (screens)

       A      turns on or off the autofire mode (autofire is just like holding down Z)

       Esc    return to the main menu

       Key controls can be modified inside the game options menu.

CONFIGURATION

       excellent-bifurcation doesn't  accept  any  command  line  arguments.   Configuration  is  via  the  file
       ~/.config/excellent-bifurcation/init.txt (or a different path if the environment variable XDG_CONFIG_HOME
       has been modified), which also records scores and configured key controls.

       The following configuration can only be done by editing init.txt (under the heading [Misc]):

       Windowed
              Use Windowed = 0 for fullscreen, Windowed = 1 to run in a window (default).

       vsync  Turning vsync on (vsync = 1) eliminates a graphic shearing effect which  some  people  might  find
              annoying, but can slow things down on older systems.  Default is vsync = 0.

AUTHOR

       excellent-bifurcation was written by Linley Henzell.

       This  manual  page  was  written by Barry deFreese <bdefreese@debian.org> for the Debian GNU/Linux system
       (but may be used by others).

                                                  January 2015                          EXCELLENT-BIFURCATION(6)