TUXMATH(6)

💖 TUXMATH(6) — the games manual, but make it cute 💖

okay bestie, pull up a chair, we're playing TuxMath — formally "Tux, of Math Command" — and yes it lives in section 6 of the games manual 🎀

🌈 NAME 🌈

tuxmath — a math game for kids, starring Tux 🐧

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

"Tux, of Math Command" (everyone just says "TuxMath" 💅) is an educational arcade game starring Tux, the Linux mascot! It's giving classic arcade game "Missile Command" energy — Tux has to defend his cities. Except the plot twist? He does it by solving math problems. no cap 🧮💥

You answer math equations with the number keys on your keyboard, and then you hit the space bar or enter. If you don't answer a comet's math equation before it hits one of your igloos, that igloo gets damaged 😭. And if an igloo gets hit twice, the penguin inside just... walks away 🐧🚶. When you lose all of your igloos, the game ends. that's the whole vibe check, bestie.

There's also a "factoroids" game 🚀 where a ship destroys asteroids if you type a valid factor of the number on a particular asteroid. Use the number keys to steer. slay.

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

⚠️ real talk first: most settings are now stored in a config file named options in a hidden directory named ./tuxmath inside the user's home directory. The file is just simple name/value pairs. It is way easier to edit this file to set game parameters than to use the command-line arguments listed below. Also, a bunch of options aren't even selectable from the command line. The config file has extensive comments detailing how to configure the behavior of Tuxmath. iykyk 💅

• --help — display help for the command 🆘
• --version — display version and author information 🏷️
• --homedir dirname — seek for user home director(ies) in the specified location, rather than the user's actual home directory. You can set up a user directory tree in this location (see README). This option is especially useful for schools where all students log in with a single user name 🏫✨
• --optionfile filename — read config settings from the named file. The locations searched for a file with a matching name are, in order: the current working directory, the absolute path of the filename, tuxmath's missions directory, the user's tuxmath directory, and the user's home 🔍
• --playthroughlist — to ask each question only once, allowing the player to win the game if all questions are successfully answered 👑
• --answersfirst — to ask questions in the format: ? + num2 = num3 instead of the default format: num1 + num2 = ? 🙈
• --answersmiddle — to ask questions in the format: num1 + ? = num3 instead of the default format: num1 + num2 = ? 🫶
• --nosound — to disable sound/music 🔇
• --nobackground — to disable background photos (for slower systems) 🖼️
• --fullscreen — to run in fullscreen, if possible (vs. windowed) 🖥️
• --windowed — to run in a window rather than fullscreen 🪟
• --keypad — to enable the on-screen numeric keypad 🔢
• --demo — to run the program as a cycling demonstration 🎞️
• --speed S — set the initial speed of the game (S may be fractional, default is 1.0) ⚡
• --allownegatives — to allow answers to be less than zero ➖
• --debug-X — prints debug information on the command line. X may be one of the following 👇
  • setup: debug messages only during initialization
  • fileops: file operations (loading and saving data)
  • loaders: loading of mulitmedia (images and sounds)
  • titlescreen
  • menu: most operations dealing with menus
  • menu-parser: subset of operations dealing with menus
  • game: the comets game
  • factoroids: the factoroids game
  • lan: anything dealing with networking
  • mathcards: generation of math problems
  • sdl: the general graphical system
  • lessons: parsing pre-prepared lessons
  • highscore: loading and saving high scores
  • options: loading and saving options files
  • text-and-intl: text and internationalization
  • all: everything! 🌈

📜 HISTORY 📜

• 2013-07-29: Updated for version 2.0.3 by Dmitry Smirnov.
• 2004-12-17: First version of this manual page.

💜 AUTHOR 💜

This manual page was written by Fabio Brito <fabio@debian-ba.org> for the Debian GNU system (but may be used by others). 🫶

and that's the whole page, bestie 🎀 written by Fabio Brito, dated 2013-07-29, and it's the TUXMATH(6) page from the Games Manual. go defend those igloos 💅🐧✨