PATHOLOGICAL(6)

💖 PATHOLOGICAL(6) — like, the actual manual, bestie 💖

okay so this is the man page for pathological, and it lives in section 6 of the manual (that's the games section, iykyk) ✨

🌈 NAME 🌈

pathological — a puzzle game involving paths and marbles 🎀

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

pathological [ -h | --help ] [ -cb ] [ -f ] [ -s ] [ -q ] [ highscores-file ]

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

So Pathological is an enriched clone of the game "Logical" by Rainbow Arts. Obsessed, honestly. 💜

To solve a level, you fill each wheel with four balls of matching color. That's the whole vibe. But wait — there's more, because various board elements like teleporters, switches, filters, etc. make the game interesting and challenging. It's giving ✨brain teaser✨ fr fr.

And the best part? New levels can be created using your favorite text editor. Not me about to spend my whole weekend making levels in vim 😭👑

For more information, see the website:

http://pathological.sourceforge.net/

✨ OPTIONS ✨

• -h | --help — shows you a brief summary of the command line options. quick little recap, no cap 🫶
• -cb — enables special graphics for color-blind people. accessibility icon behavior, we love to see it 💖
• -f — starts the game in full-screen mode. This is especially useful on certain systems (eg, Windows) where Pygame's toggle-fullscreen feature doesn't work. so like, if the toggle is being a hater, this is your girl 🔥
• -s — enables screen-capture mode. In this mode, the "Game Paused" dialog doesn't appear when the game is paused. sneaky little screenshot setup, we see you 👀
• -q — begins with sound disabled. silent mode from the jump, for when you're gaming at 3am and cannot be perceived 🙈

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Pathological was written by John-Paul Gignac <jp@gignac.org> with the help of several contributors. See the README file for details. slay, honestly 💅

heads up bestie: there's also a highscores-file argument in the synopsis, so you can point the game at your very own high score file. your leaderboard, your rules 💖

and that's the whole page, periodt 🎀

this was the PATHOLOGICAL(6) page, version P, dated June 19, 2003. iconic. timeless. a little vintage moment, and we're obsessed 🌸🦋✨💜