ATOMIX(6)

✨ ATOMIX — the molecule puzzle game that lives in your terminal ✨

okay bestie, so this is the Games Manual page for atomix, and it's giving extremely niche but also extremely iconic 💖

🎀 NAME 🎀

atomix — molecule puzzle game 🧪✨

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

atomix [OPTION...]

that's it. that's the whole summoning ritual 🫶

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so atomix is a Sokoban-like puzzle game, but make it chemistry. your whole job is to build full molecules — starting with the simple inorganic ones in the first levels and graduating to extremely complex organic ones by the last levels — out of isolated atoms that are just... laying around the playfield among walls and other obstacles. no cap, they're literally just vibing there until you come along 💅

and here's the twist that makes it chef's kiss: once you push an atom in a certain direction, it will move until it hits something that makes it stop — which could be a wall or another atom. that's the whole mechanic. that's the vibe. 🔥

this behaviour is exactly what makes playing it not trivial and, therefore, fun, because you need to think quite a lot about how to have your molecule organized. like, quite a lot. planning era fr fr 🧠✨

💖 OPTIONS 💖

🍓 Help Options:

• -h, --help — show help options 👑
• --help-all — show all help options 🌈
• --help-gtk — show GTK+ Options 🎀

🧚 Application Options:

• --display=DISPLAY — X display to use 🖥️✨

bestie reminder: the atom doesn't stop when you want it to, it stops when the wall says so. the wall is the main character in that moment. respect it. 💀

and that's the whole page, diva 💜 this was the Games Manual for atomix, dated January 30, 2013 — yes she's an elder but she still ate. go build some molecules, i'm obsessed with you already 🫶🌸✨