ARMAGETRONAD(6)

✨ ARMAGETRONAD ✨

okay bestie, sit down, we're talking about armagetronad from the Games Manual section 6 — yes section 6, that's the games one, iykyk 💅

🎀 NAME 🎀

armagetronad — a 3D Tron-like high speed game 🏍️✨

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

armagetronad [-h, --help] [-v, --version] [--doc] [-f, --fullscreen]
[-w, --window, --windowed] [--fastforward] [--benchmark] [--record]
[--playback]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

the rules are genuinely so simple bestie. you ride a lightcycle — that's a kind of motorbike that can only turn 90 degrees at a time, leaves a wall behind it, and cannot be stopped 🛑. so: avoid running into a wall. then make your opponent run into a wall. that's it. that's the game. this whole idea comes from the 1982 Disney movie "Tron" 👑

but here's the one thing that's different from all the other Tron clones: you can accelerate 🚀. and the catch? the only way to accelerate is to drive close to player walls. the way that opens up such interesting tactics?? obsessed. every single time you make a turn, you lose 5% of your speed — so don't be too nervous, bestie, because speed is literally your only resource against other players 😭🔥

first thing you should do (and yeah the manpage says "shold", we don't judge, we love her 🙈) is go into the "Player Menu" to set your name and your keyboard and mouse configuration. then go into the "Game Menu" and start a single player game against one AI opponent (the game mode does not really matter here, don't stress). and then — get some friends together and try the multiplayer modes!! main character energy fr fr 💖

SHIFT-ESC is the "boss key" and quits Armagetron as fast as possible 🫣💨

💅 OPTIONS 💅

• -h, --help — shows the help message 🫶
• -v, --version — prints the version number ⭐
• --doc — prints documentation for all console commands. these are also configuration settings for config files, so lowkey important 👑
• -f --fullscreen — starts in fullscreen mode 🖥️✨
• -w --window, --windowed — starts in windowed mode 🪟
• --fastforward TIME — lets time run very fast until the given time is reached ⏩
• --benchmark — renders frames as they were recorded 🎬
• --record FILENAME — creates a DEBUG recording while running 🔴
• --playback FILENAME — plays back a DEBUG recording ▶️

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

Armagetron Advanced is documented fully by the provided HTML docs, found under /usr/share/doc/armagetronad-common/html/ 📚✨ (go read them, bestie, they ate)

💜 AUTHOR 💜

Armagetron Advanced was written by Manuel Moos <zman@users.sourceforge.net> and the Armagetron Advanced development team 🫶

This manual page was adapted from the original HTML version by Marcelo E. Magallon <mmagallo@debian.org>, (and later Christine Spang <spang@mit.edu>) for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others, she's generous like that 💖)

and that's the whole page, no cap ✨ this one's from the Armagetron Advanced crew, dated February 07, 2007 — yeah she's an elder but she's still iconic, periodt 👑🎀 bye bestie, go build some walls 💅