TENMADO(6)

💖 TENMADO 💖

okay bestie, gather round, because we're talking about tenmado — a hard-core shoot 'em up game in a blue-or-red world, straight outta the tenmado manual, section 6. it's giving arcade cabinet at 2am and i'm obsessed 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

tenmado [ --dump stage ] [ --full-screen ] [ --help ] [ --slow ] [
--stage stage ] [ --undump stage ] [ --undump-default ] [ --version ]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so tenmado is a vertically scrolling shoot 'em up, and when i say late 1990s style i mean it fr fr — like, a massive number of enemy shots coming at a spaceship that is smaller than it looks 😭 the collision detection is very accurate, which lowkey makes it a game of dexterity. if something looks like a triangle, it is a triangle, not a rectangle of similar size. no cap. the game does not gaslight you. 💅

but here's the thing — surviving is only 20% of the game. the main character energy feature of tenmado is the "color chain bonus". you can get a very big score — like, about 100 times bigger than a normal enemy-destruction point — by destroying enemies of the same color successively. whether that's easy or difficult literally depends on how greedy you are 🙈

in the game, use cursor keys to move, press space key to shoot (auto-repeat ✨). a joystick is also available for move and shoot. note that you must plug the joystick before you invoke tenmado 🎀 for more info, see the tutorial demo by choosing it from the menu in the title. also check the README file which can be found at /usr/share/doc/tenmado/README.

🌸 OPTIONS 🌸

• --dump stage — write high score data to standard output and exit. usually you save the output in a file and later use that file as the input of --undump. stage must be between 0 and 5. stage 0 means total score. stage 1 -- 5 means each stage score. ✨
• --full-screen — run the game in the full screen mode. main character vibes only, no windowed energy 👑
• --help — print a help message and exit. your bestie when you forget a flag 💖
• --slow — run the game at the half speed. technically, the length of waiting between each frame is doubled. this slows down everything in the game, including your ship 🐌 the idea is to study the enemy formations for a later (normal speed) play. the animation may be rough because this option gives you only about 16 fps 😭 and heads up — you can't enter the high score lists with this option.
• --stage stage — start the game at the specified stage. stage must be between 1 and 5. note that you can play only one stage (the specified one) and you can't enter the high score lists. 🙈
• --undump stage — read high score data from standard input, save them and exit. the input is usually the output of --dump. stage must be between 0 and 5. stage 0 means total score. stage 1 -- 5 means each stage score. > only the superuser may use this option. 👑 so like, bring your sudo or don't bother.
• --undump-default — if at least one high score list is empty, read the default high score data, save them and exit. if not, do nothing. the main purpose of this option is to create high score database files at installation time so that you can set their permission. it's giving sysadmin side quest 🎀
• --version — print version information, license information and the disclaimer, then exit. receipts, bestie 💅

💀 BUGS 💀

please report any bugs you find to Oohara Yuuma <oohara@libra.interq.or.jp>. be nice about it, he made the whole game 🫶

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Oohara Yuuma <oohara@libra.interq.or.jp>

and that's the whole page, bestie 🦋 this was the tenmado manual page, brought to you by Project Geeste, dated Thu, 16 Jan 2003, living in section TENMADO(6). go shoot some same-colored enemies and get that color chain bonus 💖✨🎀