ROCKDODGER(6)

💫 ROCKDODGER 💫

okay bestie, welcome to rockdodger — the game where you dodge rocks and blow them up with your spaceship. yes that's the whole vibe. it's from the Games Manual section 6, iykyk.

✨ NAME ✨

rockdodger — dodge and blow up rocks with your spaceship 🪨💥🚀

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

rockdodger [options]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

this manual page documents, like, the bare minimum about the rockdodger game. brief intro, that's it, that's the assignment.

hit the space key to start a new game. you have to dodge the rocks that come flying in from the right — they WILL come at you 💀. by shooting at them with your laser you can heat them up until they explode ✨. the shield makes you invincible while you keep it activated (main character energy fr). both shield and laser have a limited power supply which recharges only slowly — so no, you cannot just spam it, bestie 😭.

⌨️ Keyboard Controls ⌨️

• Cursor keys — move spaceship in the given direction.
• F1 — setup screen.
• d — fire laser.
• s — activate shields.
• p — pause/unpause game.
• Esc — quit game.

🧘 GURU MEDITATION (Errors) 🧘

so when things go ✨wrong✨, error messages (aka software failures, aka the game being dramatic) are usually reported by a so called "guru meditation". it shows up at the top of the screen inside a blinking border. if this happens please please please send in a bug report, and provide:

• the colour of the border — that's red, yellow, green or blue
• the two hex numbers after the hash (#)

this will help greatly in locating the failure 🫶. do it for the devs. do it for the vibes.

🌸 OPTIONS 🌸

• -h — show summary of options. (hi, help!)
• -f — run in full screen mode (this is the default, bestie).
• -w — run in window mode.
• -x — provide the width of the rockdodger screen.
• -y — provide the height of the rockdodger screen.
• -k — use keyboard only, disable joystick.
• -s — run in silent mode (no sound). 🍓
• -I — please show me always the intro. (the capital I is literally begging you 💅)
• -P — provide a rockdodger parameter file. certain aspects of the game may be changed using this parameter file. this is an IFF FORM ROCK file. no cap.

💜 AUTHOR 💜

this manual page was written by Andreas Bombe <aeb@debian.org> and RPK, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others). iconic behaviour honestly 👑

ok that's the whole page, go forth and dodge rocks 🪨✨

Games Manual · May 29, 2017 · ROCKDODGER(6) — ty for coming to my ted talk, ily, bye bestie 🎀💖