ketm(6)

💖 ketm — the manual, but make it cute 💖

okay bestie, welcome to ketm(6), the arcade-like 2D space shooter page. it's giving "arcade cabinet but the cabinet is your terminal" energy and i'm obsessed. let's get into it 🦋

✨ NAME ✨

Ketm</purpose> — Kill everything that moves 💅

periodt. that's the whole brand. no notes.

🌸 SYNTAX 🌸

ketm [-hfjd(16|24|32)]

that's it, that's the summoning circle. type it and the chaos begins ✨

🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

💀 Status / Is it playable?

so like… a bit, but ngl not much fun yet. (there are no real levels, it's literally just a testbed for the enemy-formations 🫠). but the good news?? it's stable and runs without throwing coredumps around, which honestly is more than a lot of us can say 😭

start the game with ketm. in the game you only need the cursor-keys and space. and with ESC you can abort a game — like, escape the situation, we love a girl who knows how to leave 🔥

👑 OPTIONS 👑

• -h — get this help. your little hand-holding moment, bestie 🫶
• -f — fullscreen mode. main character energy, take up the WHOLE screen 💅
• -j — enable joystick-support (preliminary). it's lowkey a work in progress, so be nice to it 🙈
• -d — enable debug messages. and heads up: this is forced in this alpha version, so you're getting those messages whether you asked or not 😭
• -16 — force 16 bit screen (this one's the default, the moment the game wakes up) 💖
• -24 — force 24 bit screen. fancier pixels, same chaos ✨
• -32 — force 32 bit screen. maximum colour, maximum vibes 🌈

⭐ quick recap so you don't scroll: -h help, -f fullscreen, -j joystick (preliminary), -d debug (forced in this alpha), and -16 / -24 / -32 to force the screen depth — with -16 being the default. the -d one is not optional rn, that's just the alpha life 💀

that's the whole page, bestie 💜 go kill everything that moves (in the game. in the game!! 😭). this was version 0.0.6 of the ketm(6) manual page — slay, iconic, go play it, mwah 🎀🦋✨