LINCITY-NG(6)

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version 2.15.0 · 2 versions
, in debian trixie, fedora 43, fedora 44, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

💖 LINCITY-NG 💖

okay bestie, gather round, because this is the manual page for lincity-ng, straight out of the Games Manual section, and it's giving city-builder main character energy ✨

✨ NAME ✨

lincity-ng — City simulator game with polished graphics 🏙️💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

lincity-ng [options]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So this manual page is just a lil quick-and-dirty rundown of how to use lincity-ng, no cap 📖✨

lincity-ng is a City Simulation Game. Think of it as the glow-up era of the old LinCity game — polished, improved, absolutely iconic 🌈 You build and maintain a city, periodt. And the way you have to feed, house, and provide jobs and goods for all your residents? That's the whole job. They're your little guys and they need you 🥺

Now here's where it gets fun — you get to choose your storyline:

  • build a sustainable economy with the help of renewable energy and recycling 🌱♻️
  • or go absolutely feral, go for broke, and build rockets to escape from a pollution-ridden, resource-starved planet 🚀💀

it's up to you, babe. your city, your rules 🫶

⚠️ But lowkey listen: due to the finite resources available in any one place, this is not a game you can leave for long periods of time. She needs attention. She's high-maintenance. Respect it. 😤

Also, this game is similar to that commercial simulation game with a similar name 👀 iykyk

💅 OPTIONS 💅

These programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (-). A summary of options is included below, and bestie I've laid them all out for you 🎀

  • -h, --help — Show summary of options. your lil cheat sheet 🗒️✨
  • -v, --version — Show version of program. find out which era of the glow-up you're on 👑
  • -g, --gl — Use the OpenGL display mode 🖥️
  • -s, --sdl — Use the SDL display mode 🎮
  • -w, --window — Run lincity-ng in windowed mode 🪟 (so you can pretend to be productive)
  • -f, --fullscreen — Run lincity-ng in fullscreen mode 🖼️ (so you can pretend nothing else exists)
  • -m, --mute — Turn off sound 🔇
  • -S, --size — specify screensize (eg. -S 1024x768) 📐

⬆️ UPGRADE from 1.x to 2.x ⬆️

okay so here's the tea for anyone coming from the old days 🫖

A new format for saved games is used since 2.0, but old games can be imported and automagically converted ✨ (yes, automagically. it's that girl.)

Just copy $HOME/.lincity/* — the old location for lincity and lincity-ng 1.x — over to $HOME/.lincity-ng/, which is the new location since 2.0:

cp -a ~/.lincity/* ~/.lincity-ng/

And then, at the start of the game, one message will popup to remind you that you have some changes to do in your city 🔔🏙️ no surprises, she tells you herself.

👑 AUTHOR 👑

lincity-ng was written by Wolfgang Becker, Matthias Braun, David Kamphausen, Corey Keasling, IJ Peters, Ingo Ruhnke, Jimmy Salmon, Greg Sharp and others. Please see the documentation for a list of all contributors 💖 (the full squad, fr fr)

This manual page was written by Moritz Muehlenhoff, for the Debian project (but may be used by others). Updated by the Lincity-NG team 🛠️✨

and that's the whole page, bestie, we ate and left no crumbs 🍓

this was the LINCITY-NG(6) page from the Games Manual, dated June 24, 2005 — so yeah, she's vintage, she's iconic, and she's still serving 💅🎀 mwah 💋

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