SHOCKOLATE(6)

📦 version 0.8.2+git20251001, in ubuntu stonking

✨ SHOCKOLATE ✨

okay bestie, gather round, it's shockolate time 💅 this is the section 6 (that's games manual, iykyk) page and we're gonna get you comfy with it, no cap.

🎀 NAME 🎀

shockolate — which is, and i cannot stress this enough, literally Shockolate 💖

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

that's it. that's the whole vibe. run it, optionally feed it some options and a mod, and go off 👑

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so shockolate is a reimplementation of a first-person action-adventure video game that was originally developed by LookingGlass Technologies all the way back in 1994. iconic behavior honestly, the way that 1994 was popping off 😭

the game is set in the year 2072, inside a big ol' multi-level space station, where you, the player, get to do the classic trio: explore, combat enemies, and solve puzzles. it's giving main character energy on a whole space station fr fr 🌈

✨ OPTIONS ✨

  • -nosplash — skips the splash screens when the game starts up. like, straight to business, we don't need the intro montage bestie 💅
  • <mod> — loads a mod! and ngl it's flexible: it can be a file or a directory. you're welcome 🫶

🍓 FILES 🍓

  • /usr/share/games/system-shock/ — the game data files live here 📁
  • $XDG_DATA_HOME/Interrupt/SystemShock/ — this is where Shockolate keeps its configuration and state, and yes it defaults to ~/.local/share/Interrupt/SystemShock/ in case you were wondering 🎀

🙈 REPORTING BUGS 🙈

found a bug? don't be shy, please report it here:

https://github.com/Interrupt/systemshock/issues

we wanna hear it, periodt 💖

👑 AUTHOR 👑

okay so the engine was originally written by Looking Glass Technologies in 1994. then Night Dive Studios released the PowerPC source code in 2018 — slay — and the Shockolate Project started this whole SDL2 port based on that release. ate and left no crumbs 🔥

this manual page was written by Sébastien Noel <sebastien@twolife.be>, for the Debian project (but like, it may be used by others too, no gatekeeping) 🌈

and that's the whole page, bestie!! 💖✨🎀🦋🌸💅🫶

this lil masterpiece is from the source/version that ships dated 2026-07-02, and it's the SHOCKOLATE(6) page — so like, jot that down, it's iconic, bye 💜

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