XINVADERS3D(6)

📦 version 1.37.0, in ubuntu stonking

💖 XINVADERS3D 💖

okay bestie, welcome to xinvaders3d — that's the game, and it lives in section 6 of the games manual, which is exactly where a game belongs. sit down, grab a snack 🍓, and let's get into it.

✨ NAME ✨

xinvaders3d — X Invaders 3D. yes that's the whole name. iconic, no notes. 👑

🚀 SYNOPSIS 🚀

xinvaders3d

that's it. that's the whole invocation. just type it and go. 💅

🌌 DESCRIPTION 🌌

XInvaders3D is a 3D vector-based space invaders clone for the X Window System. yes, vector graphics, we're serving retro-future realness 🦋

here's the plot, and it's a whole vibe: you are a lone star fighter facing endless waves of space aliens. your sole objective? shoot down as many aliens as you possibly can. that's it. no side quests, no fetch quests, just alien-blasting main character energy. 🔥

and the fun part — all objects are represented with 3D vector graphics, which means the aliens grow in size as they move closer to you. they're not just sprites on a screen, they're coming at you, and you can literally watch them get bigger. terrifying? a little. slay? absolutely. 😭💖

🎮 KEYS 🎮

(one-player keys, coming right up)

  • SPACE — Fire Missile 💥
  • Left Arrow — move left
  • Right Arrow — move right
  • Up Arrow — move up
  • Down Arrow — move down
  • q — Reset game
  • f — Show frame-rate (numbers girlies rise up 📊)
  • p — Pause game
  • ESC — Terminate Program

👾 PLAYING THE GAME 👾

your mission: clear all the aliens in each level. that's the assignment. periodt.

there's also a background UFO which comes out of Jump-gates that appear to the left — hit it and you get bonus points. 🛸

and the bestie perk: a new life will be added every 7500 points. free lives?? we love to see it. 🫶

now the points breakdown, from bottom to top:

  • Row 0 aliens yield 10 pts
  • Row 1 aliens yield 50 pts
  • Row 2 aliens yield 100 pts
  • Row 3 aliens yield 150 pts
  • Row 4 aliens yield 200 pts

and separately:

  • UFO yields 500 pts

Game over happens either if the player has lost all its lives or if the alien formation reaches the player's position. so basically: don't run out of lives, and don't let them get to you. easy, right? 😭

🧚 TWO PLAYER MODE 🧚

two players can also play at the same time! iconic. however — and listen closely — it is advised you should have a second keyboard for the second player. yes, a whole second keyboard. we're doing couch co-op the hardcore way. 🎀

⌨️ KEYS (player two edition) ⌨️

  • a — Fire Missile
  • i — move up
  • j — move left
  • k — move right
  • m — move down
  • 1 — One Player Lone Defender mode
  • 2 — Two Player mode, split horizontal screen
  • 3 — Two Player mode, split vertical screen

🌈 OPTIONS 🌈

  • xinvaders3d takes no command-line options.

that's right. zero flags. zero arguments. nothing to configure. it's giving "I said what I said" and honestly? respect. 💅✨

💜 AUTHORS 💜

XInvaders3D was created (C)2000 by Don Llopis <del23@users.sourceforge.net> — and he had inspiration, bestie, from:

also the biggest thank-yous to the fix-it icons 🛠️✨:

  • Thomas Boutell — for contributing the Windows Port of XInvaders, and misc code fixes
  • Sam Bushell — for the ZONE_HEIGHT bug fix
  • Andreas Jeitler — for creating the RPM package
  • Chris Butler — for creating the DEB package
  • Peter da Silva — for the FreeBSD fix
  • Bill Kendrick — for the Window Manager fix

and the lore continues — this manual page was written by Chris Butler <chrisb@sandy.force9.co.uk>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system, 2000feb06 (but may be used by others) and adapted for Xinvaders3D, 2023feb23. 📜

then there's Jose Da Silva, https://github.com/JoesCat/xinvaders3d, who collected several bugfixes from various sources plus found and fixed a few bugs, and also added a couple more improvements, and Duel mode (see Changelog for list). absolute legend behaviour. 👑

fr fr, that's the whole page. go shoot some aliens. 🔥

and that's a wrap bestie 🫶 this page is from the Games Manual, dated March 31, 2024 — go forth and defend the galaxy, no cap. ⭐💖

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