Blocks - a small tty based games using ncurses 
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 Written by marc welz (rather : kluged by marc welz) - Redistribution is
 subject to the GNU public license.

Installation 
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 To Compile :

<make block>               to make the game 
<make bed>                 to make the level editor
<make install>             to install the entire game on your system

 If you would rather use curses (instead of ncurses) do :

<make cblock>
<make cbed>

 Some installations have trouble finding some of the #defines when
 using curses - the only solution (I know of) to that snag is to use
 ncurses ;-).

 Other options include :

<make nocolor>             to disable colours
<make old>                 to run with older versions of ncurses

 Have a look at the makefile -- it tries to be helpful.


Running the Game
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 To run the game simply type <block>
 To run the game with 'another' as level type <block another>
 To edit level complex type <bed complex>

 Blocks comes with 4 levels (default, pyramid, complex and another, each
 stored in a seperate file - they can be modified or new levels added by
 using bed).

 For help try <block -h> or hit ? when in the game. When running bed you
 can also try ?.

Notes
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 Good idea to restrict file names to 20 chars.

 The editor tries to fill the entire screen - so if you write a level on
 a big screen, you will not be able to play it on a small one.  And
 remember to save the game you are editing before exiting.

 Probably contains bugs - but if I knew what they were they would not be
 there ...

Thanks
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 A big THANK YOU goes to Joey Hess (jeh22@conell.edu) who contributed
 the pyramid level, wrote the man pages for the game and pointed out a
 couple of minor bugs.

marc (marc@mbs.bch.uct.ac.za)


