GARDEN(6)

📦 version 1.0.9, in debian bookworm, debian trixie, ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

💐 GARDEN(6) 💐

okay bestie, pull up a chair because we're about to talk about garden — aka the Garden of Coloured Lights, from the Games Manual section of your friendly neighbourhood Unix system 💖

✨ NAME ✨

garden — Garden of Coloured Lights 🌈

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

garden

that's it. that's the whole thing. she's a low-maintenance queen 💅

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so Garden of Coloured Lights is an abstract vertical shooter with music elements, and honestly? the enemies are kind of musical. like, that's not a vibe, that's literally what they are 🎵

and the part everyone's obsessed with is the graphics. they're kept pretty simple, but they're carefully taken care of — every single ship still has moving parts and mechanisms that open and close, and every level is different even though all of them share a common theme. the way that's so much work for no reason and she did it anyway?? main character energy fr fr 👑

⌨️ KEYS ⌨️

  • Left, Right, Up, Down — move the fighter across the screen 🛸
  • Z — fire weapon 1 🔥
  • X — fire weapon 2 🔥
  • C — fire weapon 3 🔥
  • V — slow down movement 🐢

ngl, key controls can be modified inside the game options menu, so if this layout isn't giving, just fix it yourself bestie 🫶

⚙️ CONFIGURATION ⚙️

here's the tea: garden doesn't accept any command line arguments. none. zero. it said "I don't do that" 💀

configuration is via the file ~/.garden/init.txt, which also records scores and configured key controls. so she's carrying a lot, lowkey 😭

the following configuration can only be done by editing init.txt (under the heading [Misc]):

  • Windowed — use Windowed = 0 for fullscreen, Windowed = 1 to run in a window (default).
  • vsync — turning vsync on (vsync = 1) eliminates a graphic shearing effect which some people might find annoying, but can slow things down on older systems. Default is vsync = 0.
okay so real talk: vsync = 1 is the cure for that shearing thing but it can make older systems chug. pick your fighter ⚖️

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Garden of Coloured Lights was written by Linley Henzell <l_henzell@yahoo.com.au>.

This manual page was written by Vincent Cheng <vcheng@debian.org>, for the Debian project (and may be used by others).

💖 that's the whole page, bestie 💖

sign-off time: this was GARDEN(6) from the Games Manual, dated January 2015 — version coded into the footer like a little timestamped scrapbook entry 📸 slay, go play some coloured lights 🎀🦋✨

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