IRONSEED(6)

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💖 IRONSEED(6) 💖

okay bestie, listen up — this is the manual page for IRONSEED, from the Games Manual section. Yes it's filed under section 6, yes that means it's a game, yes we're gonna read the whole thing together like it's a group chat. 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

is — Ironseed 🦋

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

is [options]

💫 DESCRIPTION 💫

The Ironseed is a 2D inter-galactic adventure game. Gameplay is real-time, and it's giving trading, diplomacy, and strategy all at once, and honestly it somewhat resembles Star Control 2 / Ur-Quan masters. no cap. 🚀

👑 STORY 👑

It is the thirty-eighth century. The fall of Earth is but a legend, and humanity has migrated to a terraformed Mars. The Pentateuch, a group of five priests, rules the newly risen technocracy with an iron fist. In a bold attempt to eliminate the last of their political opponents, the five began the purgation trials. With guerilla tactics their followers went about convicting those who would oppose them. 😭

To counter them an underground movement was initiated and an elaborate plan was conceived. A virus was spread throughout the circuit matrix. A thousand days from inception, the virus was scheduled to delete all personality files. The Ironseed movement as it was called, hoped that by stealing a ship they could escape, leaving behind Mars — and the Pentateuch. Their intent was to return after the fall of the technocracy, but a computer malfunction turned a thousand days into a thousand years. 💀

As the captain, you are awakened along with the crew by an alien attack... 🛸

🎮 EXTRA SDL IN-GAME KEYS 🎮

  • ALT-F11 — will change windowed/fullscreen ✨
  • Scroll-Lock — press and hold for time speedup 🔥

💅 OPTIONS 💅

Valid command line options:

  • /done — skip the intro on game startup. (yes it's a slash, not a dash, we don't make the rules, we just report them 🫶)

🌈 ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES 🌈

The following environment variables are supported:

  • NOSOUND=1 — stops the game from trying to initialize audio. 🤫
  • DEBUG=1 — shows game initialization info. 🔍
  • SDL_QUALITY=nearest|linear|best — changes how SDL extrapolates the original 320x200 resolution to your screen resolution. 🖼️

🧚 AUTHOR 🧚

The Ironseed is an SDL port of the 1994 DOS game by Channel 7. See /usr/share/doc/ironseed/copyright for a complete list of authors. 💖

🔗 SEE ALSO 🔗

Game manual: /usr/share/doc/ironseed/ironseed-manual.txt.gz 📖

periodt. that's the whole page, every flag, every variable, every path, untouched. go play the game bestie 💅✨

Ironseed, Games Manual, version dated 2024-04-11 — mwah, sending you off with a lil sign-off, iykyk 🌸🦋💜

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