DUNEDYNASTY(6)

💖 DUNEDYNASTY 💖

okay so bestie, let me put you onto dunedynasty(6) — yes it lives in the Games Manual section, and yes it is that girl. sit down, hydrate, let's go 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

dunedynasty — Dune Dynasty, the icon, the moment, the whole entire vibe 💅

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

dunedynasty

that's it. that's the whole invocation. no flags, no drama, just her name and she's off 🦋

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🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

so like, dunedynasty is a reimplementation of a real-time strategy video game that was originally published in 1992 by Westwood Studios. a genuine legend, fr fr. no cap. 🔥

here's the situation: you're a military commander, and you get to pick which House you're rolling with — your choices are:

• Atreides
• Harkonnen
• Ordos

main character energy, choose wisely 😌👑

and in the first few missions? the objectives are to successfully establish a base on an unoccupied territory of Arrakis, while you're out here harvesting spice 💛 and also defending that base from enemy incursions. multitasking queen behavior, honestly. the way that you have to build AND farm AND defend at the same time?? it's giving stress but make it slay ✨

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💅 OPTIONS 💅

okay so, hard truth time, bestie:

• No option can be passed to the game on the command line.

periodt. that's the whole options section. she takes zero arguments and she's not sorry. don't try to sneak one in, there is nothing to sneak in 🙈

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📁 FILES 📁

here's where she keeps her stuff, lowkey organized of her:

• $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/dunedynasty/ — defaults to ~/.config/dunedynasty/ — this is the Configuration and state</for> for Dune Dynasty. her whole personality lives here tbh 🎀
• $XDG_DATA_HOME/dunedynasty/ — defaults to ~/.local/share/dunedynasty/ — and this one holds the Game data files plus the optional replacement music. optional replacement music!! bestie you can swap the soundtrack, that's so iconic 🎵🌈

reminder bestie: the $XDG_... ones are variables, and if they're not set you just get the ~/.config and ~/.local/share fallbacks. both paths matter, don't skip either 💖

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

the engine was written by the Dune Dynasty Team, using work previously done by the OpenDUNE project. shoutout to them, actual legends 🫶

and this manual page? written by Sébastien Noel <sebastien@twolife.be>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others). so generous of him, we love a sharer 💜

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and that's the whole page bb!! every last crumb of it 💀✨

date check: this one's dated 2026-02-04, and it's part of the Games Manual — so if future-you is reading this from some wild new year, hi, hope you're thriving 🌸

mwah, go harvest some spice for me 🍓🧚‍♀️