asciipat(6)

🎀 asciipat(6) — the manual page, bestie edition 🎀

okay so this is the manual page for asciipat, and it lives in section 6 of the manual (that's the games section, iykyk) 💅

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✨ NAME ✨

asciipat — a retro ASCII art game inspired by Moon Patrol. yes really. it's giving 1982 but make it terminal 🌈

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

asciipat [option] [.rec file]

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay bestie, asciipat is a command-line game and it is literally nostalgia in a terminal 💖 It's inspired by the classic Moon Patrol game, and the whole vibe is: guide your character through a treacherous terrain, dodge the obstacles, and shoot down the enemies. That's it. That's the game. Survive as long as possible to achieve a high score 👑

After finishing the game you may notice there's an “asciipat.rec” file sitting in your home directory 🫶 So what's it for? Two things: it can be used to replay the game, or to validate your score. (Yes, your score. Your flex is auditable. iconic.)

Also — little lore drop — this manual page was written for the Debian distribution because the original program does not have a manual page 😭 Instead, it has documentation in the GNU info(1) format; see below, bestie.

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🌟 OPTIONS 🌟

• 0 [ .rec file] — Score validation (no graphics) — this is used by the hi-scores server. no visuals, just receipts.
• 1 [ .rec file] — Time lapsed (fast) playback. speedrun the replay, periodt.
• 2 [ .rec file] — Normal playback — Used it to capture videos. this is the one you want for the content creation arc 🎬

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💖 FILES 💖

• ${HOME}/asciipat.cfg — This file is created when you change your player name, avatar, or key bindings. so basically the moment you make it yours 🪞
• ${HOME}/asciipat.rec — This file is created when you start playing the game, and get a score. your whole run, immortalized 💾

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🧚 ENVIRONMENT 🧚

• ASCII_PATROL_CONFIG_DIR — If used, the defined directory is used to store the asciipat.cfg (see also the section called “FILES”). yes we're doing cross-references, we're thorough like that.
• ASCII_PATROL_RECORD_DIR — If used, the defined directory is used to store the asciipat.rec (see also the section called “FILES”). same energy, different file 🫶

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💀 BUGS 💀

The program is currently limited to workaround some issues 😭 so please refer to the following upstream Problems section at:

https://github.com/msokalski/ascii-patrol/tree/1.7#problems

(not me sending you straight to the upstream Problems section. read it. fr fr.)

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

For more details about the options see what the author shared at:

http://ascii-patrol.com/forum/index.php?topic=63

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

Raul Cheleguini ⟨raul.cheleguini@gmail.com⟩Wrote this manpage for the Debian system.

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🌈 COPYRIGHT 🌈

Copyright © 2023 Raul Cheleguini

This manual page was written for the Debian system (and may be used by others).

Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 3 or (at your option) any later version published by the Free Software Foundation.

On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.

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so yeah, that's the whole thing — page version “June 20 2023”, and it's asciipat(6), section 6, games section, exactly where it belongs 🎀💜 go play it, get a high score, validate that score, slay 💅✨