Frozen-Bubble Help

Frozen-Bubble Description

The Frozen-Bubble game is a free software implementation of a popular arcade/reflex game. The game mainly consists of firing randomly chosen bubbles across the board. If the shoot ends up having a clump of at least 3 bubbles of the same color, they all pop. If some bubbles were sticked only on the popping clump, they fall. In 1-player mode, the goal is to pop all the bubbles on the board as quickly as possible. In 2-player mode, you have to get your opponent to "die" before you.

Default Keys for Gameplay

Left Player (p1):

d Center

x Aim left

v Aim right

c Fire

Right Player (p2):

down Center

left Aim left

right Aim right

up Fire

Misc. Keys:

p Pause game

Note: Right Player (p2) keys are used for the single player game, you may define your own keys from the main menu.

Where are preferences stored?

Frozen-Bubble stores the window position and other Cocoa-specific settings in the ~/Library/Preferences/org.frozen-bubble.frozen-bubble.plist file. All other Frozen-Bubble preferences, high scores (don't cheat!) and preferences are stored in the ~/Library/Preferences/Frozen-Bubble folder. '~' means that these folders are in your user folder.

What is this "Toggle Colorblind Bubbles" setting?

This option, when on, will add glyphs to the bubbles to make them discernable by feature AND color. This preference is saved, but MUST be toggled from the main menu, or else it will do nothing.

Level Editor Description

This editor lets you manipulate level-sets, in which you can add, remove and modify levels thanks to a mouse-oriented interface (there are also many interesting keyboard shortcuts). The interface is very straightforward: click on the written planches on the left an right parts of the screen to perform the relevant actions, and on the level area to change the bubble color; use the "void" bubble (or right-click) to remove a bubble.

Key Shortcuts for the Level Editor

The following key shortcuts are available during level editing:

p, h, left	previous level
n, l, right	next level
up	first level
down	last level
a	append level
i	insert level
d	delete level
q, ESC	quit
Return	accept dialog
ESC	cancel dialog

How do I distribute/install custom levelsets?

Levelset files are stored in the Library/Preferences/Frozen-Bubble/fblevels folder inside your home folder. If your levelset is named "mylevels", the filename will be "mylevels". To install on another machine, just drop this file in somebody else's Library/Preferences/Frozen-Bubble/fblevels folder!

Level Editor Authors

Written by Kim Joham and David Joham. Integration work by Guillaume Cottenceau, plus some fixes and added features. The level editor manual was originally written by Guillaume Cottenceau.

Mac OS X Port

The Mac OS X port was done by Bob Ippolito.
Fullscreen mode is not available in Mac OS X.

Mac OS X Changelog

1.0.0d
* Allow cmd-Q to quit

1.0.0c
* Made all of the transitions work with Millions of colors
* Attempt to solve a screen corruption bug

1.0.0b
* Rework the build system entirely
* Redid the port to isolate platform dependent changes
* Port to SDL_perl 1.20.3a
* Use customized SDL with Altivec acceleration
* Embed the Perl interpreter and include a stripped distribution
* Dropped support for Mac OS X 10.2.x

1.0.0a
* Now autosaves window position
* Added mouse support for main menu
* Made PAUSE key configurable, and set the default to a key ('p') that's actually on Apple keyboards ;)
* Level editor now saves/loads files properly, thanks to help from David and Kim Joham!
* Colorblind bubble preference is now saved
* Added dialog that states the Fullscreen mode is NOT AVAILABLE in Mac OS X, many users were confused.
* Fixed a little bug where the version would disappear off of the wooden sign when returning from high scores view
* Enhancements and corrections to the Helpbook.

1.0.0
* Initial Mac OS X release.

License

This is Free Software; this software is licensed under the GPL version 2, as published by the Free Software Foundation. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

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