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Roundz Docs Page

Documentation is very limited, because this is very simple to use.

User Documentation

Game play is self-explanatory: kill the bad guys and get to the next level.

Keyboard usage:

  • arrow-keys: up, down, left, right move your ship. The diagonal (pgup,home,end,pgdn) may work too.
  • SPACE: fire. NOTE: there is no need to tap the spacebar: holding it down fires at the maximum rate automatically. (there is a rule: the player may only have one shot on the screen at a time. consequently, holding down space near the top of the screen generally causes you to shoot much faster, since your shots disappear faster.)
  • ESCAPE: quit the game.

Developer documentation

Authoring an XML file level.

TODO: write me!
  • parallel run a set of commands in parallel.
  • sequence run a set of commands one at a time.
  • burst ...
  • sleep ...
  • banner ...
  • fixture ...
  • level ...
  • repeat ...

Authoring a C 'motion' (a bad guy)

TODO: write me! (see examples in motions directory)

Authoring a C 'command' (an new game primitive)

TODO: write me! (see examples in commandz directory)