gnome-nibbles(6)

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💖 gnome-nibbles — Games Manual 💖

okay bestie, gather round, because we're talking about gnome-nibbles, aka the worm game for GNOME, and it's genuinely iconic. 🐛✨

✨ NAME ✨

Nibbles — a worm game for GNOME. that's it, that's the name, slay.

🌈 SYNOPSIS 🌈

gnome-nibbles [OPTION...]

🫶 DESCRIPTION 🫶

so the whole vibe is: you control a worm. the worm has a quest. the quest is eating bonuses and getting longer. that's the dream. 🍎

you're outmaneuvering enemy worms the entire time while you eat apples and bananas to increase your length. every worm gets six lives, and you lose one of them by running into a wall, into another worm, or into yourself. the enemy worms are after the exact same bonuses you are, so be careful, fr fr. and lowkey, if the worms become too large, you won't have much room to move — it gets cramped in there. 💀

the adventure progresses through 26 maps of increasing difficulty. the early levels are mostly open with a few walls, but later on, cramped spaces and teleporters make things more interesting. it's giving glow-up, it's giving chaos. 🔥

you can play on your own against up to five enemy worms, or share your keyboard to play with a friend. couch co-op main character energy. 👑

💅 OPTIONS 💅

  • -d, --disable-fakes — turns off the fake bonuses. cannot be set with --enable-fakes, pick a lane bestie.
  • -e, --enable-fakes — turns on the fake bonuses. cannot be set with --disable-fakes.
  • -l, --level=NUMBER — start at the given level (1-26).
  • --progress=NUMBER — how you move through the boards: 0 = sequentially, 1 = randomly, 2 = fixed board.
  • -n, --nibbles=NUMBER — set the number of nibbles (4-6).
  • -p, --players=NUMBER — set the number of players (1-4).
  • -p, --speed=NUMBER — set the worms' speed (4-1: 4 is the slowest and 1 is the fastest). and yes, the page really does list -p twice — that's not me being messy, that's the manpage. iykyk. 🙈
  • -3, --3D — set three dimensional view.
  • -2, --2D — set two dimensional view.
  • --start — start playing immediately. no waiting, no small talk, we go.
  • --mute — turn off the sound.
  • --unmute — turn on the sound. also: if the two options are given together, the game is muted. so --unmute doesn't get the last word, sorry. 😭
  • -v, --version — print the release version and exit.

this program also accepts the standard GNOME and GTK options, so go wild. ✨

🎀 AUTHORS 🎀

gnome-nibbles was written by Sean MacIsaac, Ian Peters and Andreas Røsdal. legends, truly. 🫶

this manual page was written by Sven Arvidsson <sa@whiz.se>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others). giving, sharing, generous. 💖

🌸 SEE ALSO 🌸

  • gtk-options(7)
  • the online documentation available through the program's Help menu.
no cap: run into a wall, another worm, or yourself and that's a life gone. six lives, use them wisely. 🐛💀

and that's the whole page babes — this one's from the GNOME crew, dated 2024-05-31, living in the Games Manual as gnome-nibbles(6). go eat some apples, stay long, stay hydrated. 💜🍓✨

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