EXCELLENT-BIFURCATION(6)

✨ EXCELLENT-BIFURCATION(6) ✨

okay bestie, sit down, because we are playing excellent-bifurcation, and it's giving abstract two-sided vertical shooter in the absolute best way 💅

🌈 SYNOPSIS 🌈

excellent-bifurcation

that's it. that's the whole invocation. no flags, no drama. iconic.

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so the aliens have attacked (of course they have 😭), and their whole thing is that they can exist in either or both of their world and ours at the same time. which is, ngl, an almost unsurpassable advantage. rude of them fr fr.

but guess what — you get to take command of a special fighter craft that can also exist in both realities at once. slay. drive them back, bestie. 🫶

now here's the tea about your two forms:

• the form your fighter takes on the left has double fast-firing cannons and can charge to release up to eight seekers. this one is ideal for destroying small and weak but numerous enemies. crowd control queen 👑
• the right-hand form has a single powerful cannon which fires slowly but does far more damage, and is more suited to taking out larger enemies. it can charge up to release a wave which passes through things, damaging them as it goes — and that is unlike the beam weapons, which only hit anything once no matter how thick it is. so yeah, big enemy? right side. periodt.

and you can switch them between the worlds depending on what kind of firepower you need where. main character energy, honestly ✨

🎀 KEYS 🎀

• Left, Right, Up, Down — move the fighter across the screen 🦋
• Z — fire the main weapon 🔥
• X — charges your weapons ⭐
• C — switches your two forms between the two worlds (screens) 🌸
• A — turns on or off the autofire mode (autofire is just like holding down Z) 💜
• Esc — return to the main menu 🙈

also!! key controls can be modified inside the game options menu. customize ur lil heart out 💅

✨ CONFIGURATION ✨

okay so excellent-bifurcation doesn't accept any command line arguments. none. zero. it's not that kind of girl. 🎀

configuration is via the file ~/.config/excellent-bifurcation/init.txt — or a different path if the environment variable XDG_CONFIG_HOME has been modified. and that same file also records scores and your configured key controls. so don't go deleting it unless you're ready to lose everything, bestie 😭

the following configuration can only be done by editing init.txt (under the heading [Misc]):

• Windowed — use Windowed = 0 for fullscreen, Windowed = 1 to run in a window (default). 🪟
• vsync — turning vsync on (vsync = 1) eliminates a graphic shearing effect which some people might find annoying, but can slow things down on older systems. default is vsync = 0. ⚡

💜 AUTHOR 💜

excellent-bifurcation was written by Linley Henzell. 💖

this manual page was written by Barry deFreese <bdefreese@debian.org> for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others). 🫶

and that's the whole vibe check, bestie — this page is from the Games Manual, EXCELLENT-BIFURCATION(6), dated January 2015. go forth and bifurcate 💅✨🌈