CURBLASTER(6)

📦 version 1.15, in fedora 43, fedora 44

💖 CURBLASTER 💖

okay bestie, sit down, we're talking about curblaster — an NCurses sidescroller from the User Manuals section of the manual, and no I will not be normal about it 🦋

✨ NAME ✨

curblaster — an NCurses sidescroller, with gameplay loosely based on a few others. lowkey a whole vibe, highkey a whole genre tribute 🎀

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

curblaster

Grab pods and drop them in the gate, while fighting enemies in your way. that's it, that's the whole job description 💅

👑 DESCRIPTION 👑

Get as many pods as you can through the gate, avoiding landers, crawlers, and possibly even a large flying saucer. yes bestie, a flying saucer. the drama of it all 🛸

Written to assuage my longing for my long-deceased Amiga. that's not me being poetic, that is literally in the manual and honestly? iconic 😭💜

🎮 CONTROLS 🎮

  • Movement: Arrow keys ⬅️➡️⬆️⬇️
  • Shoot: Z 🔥
  • Shield toggle: S 🛡️
  • Smart bomb: A 💥
  • Pause: Space ⏸️
  • Quit: Q 🚪

🧚 RESOURCES 🧚

Requires ncurses, and SDL_mixer for sound. two dependencies, zero notes 💖

Curblaster is Copyright (c) 2022 Gwyn Ciesla

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

no cap, that warranty disclaimer is doing the most, but it's doing it for a reason. read it. 🫶

💀 BUGS 💀

None so far, but looking to improve gameplay. not me saying "no bugs" and "please make it better" in the same breath 😭

🫶 AUTHORS 🫶

Gwyn Ciesla E-mail : gwync at protonmail dot com

and that's the page, bestie — this one's living in the Linux March 2022 release of the CURBLASTER(6) manual, so go shoot some landers and kiss a pod through the gate for me. slay. 💅✨

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