
Squishy Bugs v0.0.1
October 1999
Horms <horms@valinux.com>
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Overview
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Squishy Bugs is a console based game, much in the vain of the X
game xbill.  Bugs '0' crawl up your terminal and the aim is to
"squish" them by pressing any mouse button with your cursor over
the mouse. Squished bugs appear as a '*' until another bug passes
over this character of the terminal.  The idea for this game came
from Felicity, <flea@flea.org>.


Running
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To run just type "squishy_bugs".
There are not configuration files or command line options.

To exit hit CTRL-g

Scoring
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The status bar at the bottom of the terminal displays;

population: Number of live bugs on in the terminal
escaped:    Number of bugs that have made it beyond the
            top of the terminal without being squished
squished:   Number of bugs that have been squished
score:      squished-escaped

In addition *squished* will briefly show up on the status bar as
you squish a bug.

Levels
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There are no levels but the delay between bugs moving is inversely
proportional to the number of bugs on the screen so it gets
harder if you keep missing. 

Caveats
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Mouse seems to only work in an X terminal such as Eterm, rxvt or xterm.
Terminal mouse control isn't reset properly on exit.
