frozen-bubble

Synopsis

Description

Control

1-player game

If you want to train for multiplayer, choose Multiplayer Training which reproduces the conditions of 2-player or network mode; the only difference is that created malus bubbles are counted in your score, and you must get the highest score you can in 2 minutes.

2-players game

Network game

If your computer is connected to Internet, you can choose NET GAME to play against others on Earth (or beyond?). Frozen-Bubble will retrieve the server list from the master server and propose you to choose between available servers. The flag in front of a server indicates the preferred language for chatting with others before the game is started. The ping is the roundtrip when talking with the server, choose a low ping when possible.

Options

--help

show command-line options summary

--fullscreen

start the game in fullscreen mode

--no-fullscreen

don't start the game in fullscreen mode

--no-sound

disable music and sound effects

--no-music

disable music (but not sound effects)

--no-sfx

disable sound effects (but not music)

--playlist directory

use all files of the given directory as music files and play them

--playlist file

use all files listed in the given file as music files and play them

--slow-machine

use this option if frozen-bubble runs too slowly on your machine (disables a few animations)

--very-slow-machine

same as before, if it is not enough (disables all that can be disabled)

--solo

directly start solo (1p) game, with random levels

--direct

directly start 2p game (don't display menu)

--gameserver host[:port]

directly start NET/LAN game connecting to this game server (if port is omitted, default port is used)

--chain-reaction

enable chain-reaction

--level number

start directly the game, at level number

--colour-blind

use special bubbles for colourblind people

--no-time-limit

disable time limit for shooting (e.g. kids mode)

--player-malus number

add number malus to the left player (can be negative - doesn't work in network mode)

--mp-training-difficulty number

set the average duration between receiving malus bubbles in 1 player multiplayer training (default 30 (= every 30 seconds on average), the lower the harder)

--joysticks-info

print information about detected joystick(s) on startup (if Frozen-Bubble doesn't see your joysticks/joypads, try loading the joydev module with modprobe joydev as root, then retry)

--no-echo

when sound is enabled, disable echoing each typed character with a typewriter sound (it may get on your nerves)

--my-nick nick

for NET/LAN games, use this nick instead of username (max 10 chars, ASCII alphanumeric plus dash and underscore only) - notice that the /nick command is also available when connected to a server to set your nick

--private

after connecting to a server for a NET game, don't use http://hostip.info/ to retrieve your geographical position to send it to other players

--record directory

specify the recording directory (normally, records are saved in the directory '.frozen-bubble/records' down your home directory)

--auto-record

automatically record all applicable games (normally, a record is triggered by hitting the Print Screen key during a game)

--comment '...'

add the comment enclosed between simple quotes to records (must not contain anything else than ASCII), it will be shown on console when playing back the record later

--replay record_file|URL

playback the specified record file

--save-frames directory

specify a directory where all (game) frames will be recorded; as the game is slowed down, can only be used with --replay; warning, output is huge as 50 frames of each 900 KB are saved per second (e.g. 43 MB per second); a typical use case is then to build a video out of the frames with e.g. this kind of command:

mencoder mf:///tmp/fbframes/frame* -mf fps=50 -o /tmp/output.avi -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4

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