NINVADERS(6)

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💖 NINVADERS 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the Games Manual section 6, entry ninvaders — yes we're in the fun part of the manual, the part with games in it, no cap 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

ninvaders — the ncurses version of space invaders 🌈

🚀 SYNOPSIS 🚀

ninvaders

that's it. that's the whole thing. one word and you're in, fr fr 💅

🛸 DESCRIPTION 🛸

okay so, short version: this is a space invaders game written for the ncurses terminal control library. it draws everything with ASCII art (yes, ASCII art, we're being iconic and low-tech on purpose), and you can play it just about anywhere. Space Invaders over dialup! 😭 truly the vibe.

to play the game, simply run the program. you will be placed in the game arena with a large block of aliens — like, a whole crowd of them, they're giving swarm energy 👑.

to move your gun pod (it's chillin' at the bottom of the screen) use the left and right arrow keys. to shoot, press space. pro tip from the source itself: you can move faster if you hold the arrow keys down. speedrun behavior, love that for you ✨

the object of the game is to shoot all the aliens (the multi-coloured moving things 🌸) before they reach the ground. and here's the thing — these aliens aren't friendly (which is literally why you're trying to stop them, bestie, it's self defense), so they will shoot back. so dodge the descending bullets, or just hang about under the large stationary blocks for cover. shelter arc 💜

not me getting invested in ASCII aliens. anyway. dodge. please dodge. 😭

🌟 AUTHOR 🌟

this manual page was written by Matthew Palmer <mpalmer@debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others — sharing is caring 🫶).

the ninvaders program was written by Thomas Dettbarn <dettus@matrixx-bielefeld.de> and is released under the GPL. legend behavior, we stan 💖

aaaand that's the whole page, bestie 🦋 this was NINVADERS(6) from the Games Manual, dated July 21, 2002 — so yeah, this one's been slaying since 2002 and it's still out here protecting terminals from alien invasion. go run it. periodt 💅✨

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