GEARHEAD(6)

💖 GEARHEAD 💖

okay bestie, listen up — this is the manual page for gearhead, from the Games Manual section of your friendly neighbourhood man pages. It's a game. It's a whole vibe. Let's get into it. 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

gearhead — roguelike mecha role playing game 🦋

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

gearhead

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

gearhead is a roguelike adventure game involving giant mechas and a post-apocalyptic but recovering world. It's giving wasteland but make it hopeful, no cap. 🤖✨

👑 KEY BINDINGS 👑

You can pull up the whole list of key bindings mid-play by hitting the h key. Menus? Navigate them with the arrow keys and enter, easy. And walking into an object generally does the expected thing — use it, talk to it, or attack it, whatever makes sense. 😌

The action names listed below are the actual names, and you can use them to redefine the keys in a configure file. iykyk.

• a — Attack — Attack. periodt.
• A — AttackMenu — Attack, choosing the weapon or body part from a list. picky behaviour, we love it 💅
• B — PartBrowser — Examine the individual components of the player character.
• C — CharInfo — Show character information.
• e — Equipment — View character's equipment.
• E — Eject — Eject from a mecha. 🪂
• H — FieldHQ — Examine mechas and allies.
• i — Inventory — View inventory.
• l — Look — Look around.
• L — LearnSkills — Learn new skills by spending accumulated experience. glow up time ✨
• m — Messages — Review all current adventure memos, news and email.
• Q — QuitGame — Quit the game. Does not save the game.
• r — RunToggle — Toggle running on or off.
• R — Recenter — Recenter the game display on the character.
• S — Search — Search the area for secrets and enemies.
• t — Talk — Initiate a conversation with an NPC. 💬
• T — Telephone — Call an NPC. 📞
• u — UseScenery — Uses stationary scenery such as doors or computers.
• V — History — Show past game messages.
• X — SaveGame — Saves the game. Does not quit the game.
• Z — Rest — Take a break for one hour of game time. self care 💖
• . — SwitchGears — Toggle the movement mode (e.g. flying, walking).
• [ — TurnLeft — Turn to left.
• ] — TurnRight — Turn to right.
• keypad keys 1-9 — Stop, Dir-NorthWest, etc. — Move around or stop.
• + — FullSpeed — Move forward at full speed. 🏃‍♀️💨
• = — NormSpeed — Move forward at normal speed.
• - — Reverse — Move backwards.
• <, > — Enter, Enter2 — Enter scenery.

🎯 the target-selection keys 🎯

These ones are usable when you're selecting a target, bestie. Different mode, different moveset.

• / — CalledShot — Toggle the Called Shot option while selecting a target.
• > — SwitchBv — Toggle the Burst Fire option while selecting a target.
• ; — SwitchTarget — Switch to next visible enemy when selecting a target.

🍓 FILES 🍓

• /etc/gearhead.conf — System-wide configuration file.
• $HOME/.gearhead/gearhead.conf — User specific configuration file. If this is present the system-wide configuration file is not read.

⚠️ heads up: that second one overrides the first. if your user conf exists, the system-wide one is simply not read. no merge, no blend, just vibes. 💀

🧚 AUTHOR 🧚

gearhead was written by Joseph Hewitt <pyrrho12@yahoo.ca>.

This manual page was written by Kari Pahula <kaol@debian.org>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

nethack(6). More documentation for gearhead can be found in the /usr/share/doc/gearhead directory.

and that's the whole page, bestie 💜 — this one came from the Games Manual, dated 26 Mar 2016, and it lives in the gearhead man page source. go forth and pilot a giant robot, you absolute icon. 🫶✨