man(6)

✨ NAME ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to man(6) — the xye man page, section 6, and yes we're doing this 💖

xye — it's a puzzle game 🎀

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Xye is a puzzle game where your whole entire mission, your main character moment, is helping a little guy who literally looks like a green circle collect all the gems in the room 💎✨

and like… that sounds easy? it is NOT easy. not even a little. Xye has to solve all sorts of puzzles while ALSO dodging all sorts of traps and beasts at the same time. multitasking queen behavior, honestly 😭

Xye is giving similar energy to other puzzle games like sokoban or boulderdash, except it also sprinkles in some arcade elements on top. it's giving genre-blend 💅

🌸 where it came from 🌸

Xye is a derivative of a classic windows game called Kye — that's the blueprint, the origin story, the source of both the gameplay experience AND the visual elements 🫶

and here's the slay part: Xye can play level files that were made for Kye and Sokoban 👑

it can ALSO play custom .xye files — a richer level format that allows the new objects and features ✨ you can make these levels by hand, or by using the built-in editor that comes with the game 🎨

🌈 cross platform realness 🌈

thanks to the SDL library, Xye is cross platform software 🧚 there are versions available for Linux and windows, there are also ports for FreeBSD, and it should be possible to compile it in other platforms as well ⭐

not me listing every platform like a resume. but fr fr, it runs places. 💀

okay that's the whole page bestie, no cap 💜 this was xye man page version 0.12.2, dated 14 Dec 2013 — and it lives in section 6 of the manual, so if you ever forget, you know where to find me 🎀💖 bye ily 🫶