NAME

       powermanga - shoot-'em-up game

SYNOPSIS

       powermanga [OPTIONS]

DESCRIPTION

       Powermanga is a shoot'em up game; you will have to fight more than 60 different types of enemies.

       You  start with a ship, and enemies show up throwing bombs at you. Shoot them, and get better weapons for
       your ship (otherwise, you won't go too far!)

       To get better weapons, you will have to catch green and red gems. Whenever you  pick  a  green  gem,  the
       highlighted option at the right side of the screen goes up one unit.

       The options are, from the bottom to the top:

       - More speed

       - More energy to your ship
              If you get out of energy, you lose your ship. Losing your ship means either going back to the ship
              you were using before you "upgraded' it, or dying if you had no previous ship! You can check  your
              energy  level  in the little bar at the bottom (the bar at the right is yours; the one at the left
              is your enemy's, in case you're fighting a big one)

       - Several options for different weapons

       - The last option gets you a better ship

       If the current option is "more power to the leftside straight weapons", for example, you  may  select  it
       and they will immediately take effect.

       If the current option is already the last, and you pick a green or red gem, you will go back to the first
       one (but you will get an extra side-weapon). Also, whenever you pick an option, the current  option  goes
       back to the first one.

THE GEMS

       During the game, you will sometimes see gems falling down when an enemy is destroyed. You may catch those
       gems:

       - Green gems
              As we said before, makes the current option go up one unit.

       - Red gems
              Similar to the green gem, but it increases 2 units instead of 1.

       - Pink gems
              Gives energy to your ship. If your energy is at the maximum level, this gem will give you  a  full
              blast that destroys all enemies currently on the screen.

       - Blue gems
              They  multiply  the score points for each destroyed enemy by 2. If you get the blue gem again, the
              score points are multiplied by 4; you can see the "2x" or "4x" blinking at the sidebar.

       - Yellow gems
              These give you protection balls. If you already have six protection  balls  and  you  get  another
              yellow gem, you will get a special weapon!

CHANGING SHIPS

       When  you  get  a  better  ship,  you  will be able to accumulate more energy, becoming more resistant to
       attacks. But whenever you "upgrade" your ship, a few things will happen:

       - Protection
              You will lose all your protection balls (let's say they're not "compatible" with your new ship).

       - Weapons
              You will lose one "degree" in your weapons (if you had used green gems to get  the  best  possible
              weapon  for shooting straight forward, for example, after upgrading your ship you will have to get
              one more green gem if you want your weapons at the maximum power.)

       - Score
              If your score was getting multiplied by 2 or 4, it won't be anymore (go get more blue gems!)

KEYS

       In the main menu, use the arrow keys and enter. To play the game, use the arrow keys to move,  space  for
       shooting and control to pick a selected option.

       Also:

        CTRL+S           enable/disable the music
        CTRL+Q           finish the play current
        CTRL+A           about Powermanga
        ALT+F4           quit Powermanga
        P or Pause/Break enable/disable pause
        F or F11         switch between full screen and windowed mode
        PAGE UP          volume up
        PAGE DOWN        volume down

OPTIONS

       Valid command line options:

       -h, --help
              prints help message and exit

       --version
              prints version information and exit

       --window
              windowed mode (full screen by default)

       --2x   scale2x effects which scale the image of 2x

       --3x   scale3x effects which scale the image of 3x

       --4x   scale4x effects which scale the image of 4x

       --320  the game will run in a 320*200 window

       --fullscreen
              the game will run in full screen

       -v     verbose mode

       --verbose
              verbose mode (with more messages)

       --nosound
              disable sound

       --sound
              enable sound

       --nosync
              disable timer

       --easy make the game easier by giving more bonuses

       --hard make the game harder

FILES

       /usr/share/games/powermanga/graphics/
              Graphics files.
       /usr/share/games/powermanga/data/
              Levels and data files.
       /usr/share/games/powermanga/sound/
              Sound files.
       /usr/share/games/powermanga/texts/
              Texts files.

ENVIRONMENT

       HOME   Used to search for graphics and sounds.

AUTHOR

       Powermanga  -  Copyright  TLK Games. You are free to redistribute and/or change it under the terms of the
       GNU General Public License. See the /usr/share/doc/powermanga/copyright for details.
       This manual page was written by Jeronimo Pellegrini <pellegrini@mpcnet.com.br>, based on the previous one
       by Sam Hocevar <sam@zoy.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).

                                                   2014-08-17                                      POWERMANGA(6)