RAFKILL(6)

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💖 RAFKILL 💖

okay bestie, so this is the manual page for Rafkill, which lives in section 6 of the Games Manual, and it is literally a vertical shoot'em-up and I am obsessed 🦋

✨ NAME ✨

Rafkill — a vertical shoot'em-up 🌈

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

rafkill [ -l ] [ -w ] [ -g<speed> ] [ -h ]

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

So Rafkill is a clone of Raptor: Call of the Shadows, which is like, a classic shoot'em-up game. Periodt. 👑

You get a bird's eye view of the playing field, and the playing field is an alien world, and your whole job — your entire main character arc — is to destroy the enemies that are flying towards you shooting bullets at you. Rude of them tbh. 😭 The score lets you buy life, shield, better weapons or even new spaceships. Slay.

Killing enemies gives you money, or score. Same thing, whatever, it's giving currency 💅. And if you kill a group of enemies, you might get a handy coin which gives you more score. There are other powerups too, so keep your eyes peeled and look for them. 🔥

The score lets you buy more weapons and hull parts. Here's the tea: there are 5 weapon groups and a few weapons in each group, but you can only have one weapon per group — except for the accessory weapons, where you can have up to 3 weapons. Once you buy 3, you cannot buy any more. That's it, that's the cap, no cap. 🙈

There are 3 hulls, and each one has higher life and shield than the previous one, and it gives you access to a new set of weapons. Buying a new hull does not throw away your weapons — but it does throw away your accessory weapons. So like, be aware. ⭐

✨ OPTIONS ✨

  • -l — run the game without displaying the background 👀
  • -w — run the game in windowed mode instead of full screen 🪟
  • -g<speed> — run the game at a different speed (default is 40) 🏃‍♀️
  • -h, -help, --help — display help message and exit 🎀

✨ KEYS ✨

  • Left, Right, Up, Down — move the ship across the screen 🦋
  • Space or Enter — fire the main weapon 🔥
  • Alt — switch between alternate weapons 💅
  • Esc — return to the game menu 🎀

✨ AUTHOR ✨

Rafkill was written by Jon Rafkind <workmin@ccs.neu.edu>.

This manual page was written by Sam Hocevar <sam@zoy.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others). 🫶

okay that's the whole thing, you're fully caught up bestie, go shoot some aliens 💖✨🎀

this was the RAFKILL(6) page from the Games Manual, dated 24 April 2003 — mwah, iconic, no notes 🌸🦋💜

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