NAME

       blupimania - a mind boggling (brain twisting) game of logic

SYNOPSIS

       blupimania [optional...]

DESCRIPTION

       Blupi  comes out of a hole holding on to a balloon. Unfortunately he lets it blow away. Blupi is lost, he
       turns to the left or the right and does various unpredictable things of his own. The object of  the  game
       is  to  help  him  find another balloon, so that he can move on to the next riddle. Blupimania offers the
       option of creating your own riddles in level 5.

       There are more than 120 riddles in  the  game  grouped  in  four  different  levels  according  to  their
       difficulty.  You  have  to  solve  one riddle to be able to move onto the next, but you can always change
       levels.

       Blupi has no antenna

       In this phase you have to direct one or more independent Blupi, by modifying the décor, e.g. by placing a
       fence to prevent Blupi from falling down a hole.

       Blupi has an antenna

       In this mode Blupi can be remote controlled. There may also be other independent Blupi moving around  the
       screen.  They  too must be helped, as the riddle is not solved until every Blupi has found a balloon! You
       have to modify the world around them, e.g. to put  a  fence  in  place,  you  have  to  move  the  remote
       controlled Blupi to the place you have chosen.

CONFIGURATION

       Blupimania  supports  at  least GNU/Linux 3.2, macOS 10.13 and Microsoft Windows Seven. If your OS is not
       listed, maybe it's possible to build yourself the game. Most Unix and Unix-like OS should be supported.

       For the sound card, any cards supported by ALSA, PulseAudio, macOS or DirectSound should work fine.

SCREEN

       The game Blupimania runs in windowed mode. Of course you can decide  to  change  in  fullscreen  via  the
       settings screen.

       If the game cannot run, maybe you should try to start the game with the software renderer. Start the game
       with the --renderer software command line option.

       Another possibility exists. You can try to change the driver used by the accelerated renderer. By default
       it  uses  "direct3d"  on  Windows,  you  can change by "opengl" with "driver": "opengl" with the --driver
       opengl command line option.

DOCUMENTATION

       A very complete documentation is available in game.

KEYBOARD

       •   Arrows: Move Blupi or move the view

       •   Spacebar: Shows or hides items

       •   F1..F4: Places corresponding object from the icon palette in front of a radio-controlled Blupi

       •   F5: Turtle speed

       •   F6: Normal speed

       •   F7: Hare speed

       •   F8: Fast panorama ON/OFF

       •   F9: Save game

       •   F10: Recall game

       •   F12: Music ON/OFF

       •   .: Pause

       When you switch to another application, the game is automatically paused.

OPTIONS

       •   -?, --help: Print this help message and exit.

       •   -V, --version: Print version and exit.

       •   -s, --speedrate: Change the speed rate [0;1;2] (default: 1).

       •   -t, --timerinterval: Set the timer interval (refresh). The default value is 50ms. This is an advanced
           option because it changes the main events loop frequency.

       •   -f, --fullscreen: Load in fullscreen [on;off] (default: off).

       •   -z, --zoom: Change the window scale (only if fullscreen is off) [1;2] (default: 2).

       •   -r, --renderer: Set a renderer [auto;software;accelerated] (default: auto). Use the software renderer
           if the accelerated renderer is bugged. Note that you can try other drivers (option -d) before forcing
           the software renderer.

       •   -d, --driver:  Set  a  driver  [auto;direct3d;direct3d11;opengl;opengles2;opengles]  (default:  auto,
           ignored with software renderer).

AUTHOR

       Blupimania is an original creation of Epsitec SA.

       https://www.blupi.org info@blupi.org

COPYRIGHT

       blupimania is Copyright (C) 1994-1996, Daniel Roux & EPSITEC SA and Copyright (C) 2023, Mathieu Schroeter

                                                   March 2025                                      BLUPIMANIA(6)