COLOBOT(6)

💖 COLOBOT 💖

okay bestie, welcome to colobot (that's the manual page name right there, section 6, games, iykyk) — Colonize with Bots!! it's an educational game whose whole vibe is teaching you programming through entertainment, which is honestly genius. you're playing as an astronaut on a journey with your little robot helpers trying to find a planet to colonize 🪐🤖. it features 3D real-time graphics and a C++ and Java-like, object-oriented language called CBOT, and you use CBOT to program the robots that exist in the game. no cap, that's the whole premise and it ATE.

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

colobot

just... the binary name, bestie. that's it. she contains multitudes 💅

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so Colobot (short for Colonize with Bots) is an educational game and its entire mission statement is teaching programming through entertainment — like, learning but make it fun, fr fr.

you're an astronaut 🧑🚀, you're on a journey with your robot helpers, and your goal is to find a planet for colonization. the game ships with 3D real-time graphics ✨ and a C++ and Java-like, object-oriented language called CBOT, and you use that language to program the robots available in the game. that's the whole loop. iconic. periodt.

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🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• -help — shows you a short help text. literally a little cry for help, but make it documentation 🫶
• -resolution WxH — sets the runtime screen resolution. W is width, H is height, you got this.
• -graphics default|auto|opengl|gl14|gl21|gl33 — changes the graphics device. pick your fighter: default, auto, opengl, gl14, gl21, or gl33.
• -glversion default|#.# — sets the OpenGL context version to use. it's default or a version number written like #.# (yes, literally a number dot number).
• -glprofile default|core|compatibility|opengles — sets the OpenGL context profile to use. options are default, core, compatibility, or opengles 🌈

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🦋 RUNTIME PATH OVERRIDES 🦋

these ones let you point the game at your own directories, bestie. custom paths, custom vibes ✨

• -langdir /path/to/lang/ — set a custom language directory path
• -datadir /path/to/data/ — set a custom data directory path
• -savedir /path/to/save/ — set a custom save directory path. heads up: this one must be writable, so don't be pointing it at something locked down 💀
• -mod /path/to/mods/ — set datadir mod path

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🔥 DEBUG OPTIONS 🔥

for when you wanna see behind the curtain 👀

• -loglevel trace|debug|info|warn|error|none. — set log level. your choices are trace, debug, info, warn, error, or none.
• -debug all|event|models|... — enable debug mode, which prints more info in the logs. the possible values are listed below, and you can use any comma-separated combination of them. mix and match, she's flexible 💅
  • sys_events — system events
  • update_events — update events
  • app_events — application events
  • events — all of the above events
  • models — models-related debugging
  • all — all of the above debugging statements
• -headless — run in headless mode. this disables graphics, sound and user interaction, so no pictures, no audio, no touching. fully ghost mode 👻
• -runscene scenecodename — run the given scene on start, skipping the menus entirely. straight to business.
• -scenetest — win every mission right after it's loaded. yes, every single one. instant victory, no effort, absolutely cheating but the game said it's fine 😭👑

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🌈 ENVIRONMENT 🌈

• LC_MESSAGES — used to determine the runtime language. that's it, that's the one variable, she's the whole environment section 🫶

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💜 AUTHOR 💜

this manpage was written by Didier Raboud <odyx@debian.org>. thank you for your service, legend 🙏✨

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and that's the whole page, bestie!! this was Colobot, version 0.2.2-alpha, dated 2025-01-24 — go colonize a planet with your robots and write some absolutely unhinged CBOT, i believe in you 🎀🤖💖