PHEAR(6)

👑 PHEAR — enter the cavez of phear 🦋

okay bestie so this is phear, it lives in section 6 of the games manual, and it's literally the cutest little terminal cave adventure you've ever seen, no cap 💖

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

phear [-e <level filename>] | [level name]

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🌸 OPTIONS 🌸

this program has several arguments, and like, there are only a few so you can't mess it up fr fr:

• -e — start the editor instead of the game, on a specific level ✏️
• level name — name of the level you wanna play, f.ex 01 🎮
• level filename — filename of the level you wanna edit. f.ex /usr/share/phear/data/levels/01 📁

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💎 DESCRIPTION 💎

this is a boulder dash type of game, for terminals 🌈 you walk around in an ASCII underground cave system, where you need to keep clear of boulders falling down while you are digging through the dirt searching for diamonds. it's giving spelunker main character energy, honestly 💅

to play you have to know these keys, and yes you have to know them, this is not optional bestie:

• right — move right ➡️
• left — move left ⬅️
• up — move up ⬆️
• down — move down ⬇️
• b — place bomb 💣
• t — detonate bombs 💥
• q — leave game 🚪

by picking up a diamond (*) you get 10 points, picking up money ($) gives you 100 points. you get one extra life for every 1000 points you score 🎀 (yes, the grind is real, but the lives are worth it)

move around with the arrow keys or the 2-4-8-6 keys. press k to commit suicide if you should get stuck 🙈 (not me telling you how to unalive your little ASCII guy, but like, sometimes you gotta)

got the bombs (%)? great! press b to place them, and t to detonate them all at once 💥 note that the bombs you place will act just like stones, affected by gravity, rolling, and so on.. (so like, they are NOT just vibing there, they have physics, be careful)

watch out for monsters (M) — if they catch you, you will die 💀 to fight back, drop stones on them or blow them up using your bombs 🔥 slay

pressing s will enable/disable sound 🔊 and w will highlight your current position ✨ (iconic for when you literally cannot find yourself on screen)

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🎨 EDITOR 🎨

the editor has its own keys you need to know:

• 0-9 — keys 0-9 places objects 🧱
• s — saves the map 💾
• l — enables lock-mode (lets you draw continuously using the arrow-keys) 🖌️
• q — quits the editor 👋

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🫶 AUTHOR 🫶

Cavez of Phear was written by Tom Rune Flo <tom@x86.no>.

this manual page was written by Håkon Nessjøen <haakon.nessjoen@gmail.com>, with parts of it written by Tom Rune Flo <tom@x86.no>, for the Debian project (and may be used by others). 💜

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and that's the whole vibe, bestie! this page is from the Games Manual, dated November 30, 2011 — so yeah it's an oldie but she's still iconic 👑 go dig up some diamonds, you got this 💖✨