POWDERTOY(6)

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💖 POWDERTOY 💖

okay bestie, gather round, because we're about to talk about the Games manual entry for a little thing called powdertoy and honestly? it's giving main character energy fr fr 🌈

✨ NAME ✨

powdertoy — a physics sandbox game 🎀

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

powdertoy [OPTIONS...]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so. The Powder Toy is a free physics sandbox game and no cap, it simulates air pressure and velocity, heat, gravity, and a whole bunch of other interactions between different substances. 💅

the game hands you various building materials, liquids, gases and electronic components — yes literally all of that — and you can use them to construct complex machines, guns, bombs, realistic terrains, and honestly almost anything else you can dream up. 🫶

and then?? the fun part?? you can mine them and watch cool explosions, add intricate wirings, play with little stickmen, or operate your machine. it's iconic, it's chaos, it's everything. ✨

the game also features a Lua API, which lets you automate work or even make plugins for the program. iykyk 😌

💅 OPTIONS 💅

⚠️ NOTE: program options should be written exactly as specified on this man page — there are no leading dashes in front of their names. like, none. zero. don't add them. periodt. 💀
  • ddir DIRECTORY — load and save preferences, savegames, etc. in DIRECTORY. lowkey important: the directory must already exist (if it's missing, it will not be created). so go make it yourself first bestie, the game is not doing it for you 🙈
  • disable-network — disable network access. bye-bye internet 🌙
  • kiosk — run in fullscreen mode. main character on the big screen, as you deserve 👑
  • open FILE — open the specified savegame on program start. straight into the vibes 🎀
  • proxy:SERVER[:PORT] — use the specified proxy server. ✨
  • ptsave:SAVEID — open an on-line save with the given ID. 🌐
  • redirect — do not print anything to standard output nor the standard error stream; redirect all messages to stdout.log and stderr.log files instead. quiet mode, shhh 🤫

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

  • https://powdertoy.co.uk/ — the official website. to use on-line features, such as saving and sharing their creations, players need to register an account. so like, go make one bestie 🍓

and that's the whole page, you're so welcome 💜

this little guide is from the Games manual, page POWDERTOY(6), dated 2019-09-25 — slay, go build something cursed, mwah 💖✨🎀🦋

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