kobodl - Kobo Deluxe, an enhanced version of the scrolling game XKobo

kobodl [ options ]

Kobo Deluxe is a 3'rd person scrolling 2D shooter with a simple and responsive control system - which you'll need to tackle the tons of enemy ships that shoot at you, chase you, circle around you shooting, or even launch other ships at you, while you're trying to destroy the labyrinth shaped bases. There are 50 action packed levels with smoothly increasing difficulty, and different combinations of enemies that require different tactics to be dealt with successfully.

Kobo Deluxe has an improved graphics engine that can take full advantage of any video frame rate, without affecting the game logic and timing. It also adds sound effects, flashy "dashboard" graphics, full-screen mode and various other features expected from a modern game. Kobo Deluxe is based on SDL, and therefore builds and runs on all major operating systems, as well as some more unusual platforms.

In short, Kobo Deluxe is loads of classical arcade style fun for just about any machine with graphics and sound!

The ship can be controlled with the keyboard, or optionally a mouse or joystick. With the keyboard, the arrow keys move the ship, and the shift key shoots. Escape can be used to exit the game.

Note that most options can be configured in the game or via the config file.

-hiscores

-highscores

List high scores.

-showcfg

Display configuration file.

-noframe

Don't display frame around play field.

-fps

Display frames per second in corner of window.

-maxfps n

Limit the framerate (fps). Saves power on laptops. 75 works well.

-debug

Display more debug output.

-[no]fullscreen

Enable/disable full screen mode.

-buffer n

Display buffer mode.

-depth n

Display depth.

-[no]filter

Enable/disable motion interpolation filter.

-[no]cheat

Enable/disable cheat mode, which gives you infinite ships and does not update high score file.

-[no]indicator

Enable/disable collision testing mode.

-wait n

Set game speed.

-[no]sound

Enable/disable sound.

-latency n

Set sound latency.

-vol n

Set sound volume.

-reverb n

Set reverb level.

-threshold n

Set limiter gain.

-release n

Set limiter speed.

-files

Specify the root path of the game.

-gfx

Specify the path to the game's graphics data.

-sfx

Specify the path to the game's sound data.

-scores

Specify the path to the game's score file.

-[no]joystick

Enable/disable joystick control.

~/.kobodlrc

The per-user configuration file for Kobo Deluxe.

Originally written by Akira Higuchi (a-higuti@math.hokudai.ac.jp), XKobo was turned into Kobo Deluxe by David Olofson <david@olofson.net>

Copyright (c) 1995,1996, Akira Higuchi

Copyright (c) 2001-2003, David Olofson

Kobo Deluxe is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License.