Shmester5000 by DrPetter
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      March 2006
  drpetter@gmail.com
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This is DrPetter's entry for shmup-dev's Horizontal Shmup With Boss compo.

Control your amazing... Glaeoid in its quest for... destruction.
You must navigate the perilous caverns and biostructures of... planet Rq.
Prepare for the final encounter!


Controls:

Move   - Arrow keys or D-Pad
Fire   - Z or Gamepad buttons 1/2
Select - X or Gamepad buttons 3/4
Quit   - Esc


Weapons/Shield combo system:

Collect flashing bliplets to gain more power spheres.
Yellow power spheres mean you can absorb one hit. Red means two.
Power spheres can also be spent on upgrading your weapon by pressing
Select+Up. This will remove four power spheres and upgrade the weapon
by one step. To revert to a weaker weapon press Select+Down, this will
provide you with four new power spheres.
Use this mechanism to balance between offensive and defensive capabilities,
but be careful of wasting spheres - if you downgrade your weapon when you
already have full sphere capacity (red) you can not upgrade again for free.


config.txt:

You can select fullscreen or windowed mode by changing the value.


Have fun!
