MAGICMAZE(6)

🎮 magicmaze — like, the manual page 💅

okay bestie, so this is the Games Manual page for magicmaze, section 6, and I'm gonna walk you through it like we're texting at 2am 🦋

✨ NAME ✨

magicmaze — a simple monster-bashing game 🧟‍♀️👊

🌈 SYNOPSIS 🌈

magicmaze [options]

that's it. that's the whole vibe. options go in, monsters get bashed 💖

💫 DESCRIPTION 💫

okay so this manual page documents, briefly, the magicmaze command. brief queen, she's not gonna overexplain.

magicmaze is a simple and low-tech monster-bashing maze game. and the lore?? iconic. it was originally inspired by playing Gauntlet II on the Atari ST. like, that's the origin story. we love a retro glow-up ✨

🎀 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 yes I'm giving you every single one, no skips, no cap 💅

• -D, --savedir dir — specify the directory for the saved game. the default is $HOME/.magicmaze 🏠
• -f, --fullscreen — start in full-screen mode. main character energy, full screen, no distractions 👑
• -h, --help — show summary of options. she's helpful like that 🫶
• -j, --joystick [#] — enable joystick mode, optionally specifying which joystick to use 🕹️
• -L, --loadgame — load and continue playing saved game. your progress said "not today, amnesia" 💾
• -l, --level 1-10 — start on a particular level. pick your difficulty, diva 🍓
• -S, --nosound — disables the sound output 🔇
• -s, --scale 1-5 — specify graphical resolution scaling 🔍
• -v, --volume 1-10 — set the volume of the sound 🔊

🌸 AUTHOR 🌸

magicmaze was written by Kent Dahl <kentda@pvv.org> 💜

this manual page was written by Joe Nahmias <jello@debian.org>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others). generous queen 🎀

and that's the whole page, bestie!! this one's dated July 20, 2008 and it lives in the Games Manual as MAGICMAZE(6) — go bash some monsters, you got this fr fr 💖🦋✨