1endless-sky(6) Endless Sky endless-sky(6)
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6 endless-sky - a space exploration and combat game.
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10 endless-sky [-h] [--help] [-v] [--version] [-s] [--ships] [-r] [-w]
11 [--weapons] [-t] [--talk] [-r] [--resources] [-c] [--config]
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15 Endless Sky is a space exploration and combat game combining action and
16 role playing elements.
17 Explore other star systems. Earn money by trading, carrying passengers,
19 or completing missions. Use your earnings to buy a better ship or to
20 upgrade the weapons and engines on your current one. Blow up pirates.
21 Take sides in a civil war. Or leave human space behind and hope to find
22 some friendly aliens whose culture is more civilized than your own.
23 For keyboard controls, click the "Preferences" button on the title
25 screen. You can pause and return to the title screen at any point in
26 the game by pressing <escape>.
27 Most of the controls should be self-explanatory. Your ship has no
29 reverse thrusters, so as with a real spacecraft, the only way to slow
30 down is to turn your ship around and accelerate in the opposite direc‐
31 tion from your current heading. To assist with some tricky maneuvers,
32 your ship has an autopilot which engages when you press 'L' to land or
33 'J' to enter hyperspace; the autopilot disengages if you press any of
34 the movement keys. The autopilot will also automatically aim your ship
35 if you are firing a weapon and have a target selected.
36 For a manual and other information, visit https://endless-sky.github.io
38 When run from the command line, if a resource directory is not speci‐
40 fied, the program will check to see if the current directory contains
41 directories named "data" and "images" and files named "keys.txt" and
42 "credits.txt"; if so it will read resources from the current directory.
43 Otherwise it will use /usr/local/share/games/endless-sky if it exists,
44 or /usr/share/games/endless-sky/ otherwise.
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48 -h, --help
49 prints a short help message.
50 -v, --version
53 prints the software version.
54 -s, --ships
57 prints (to STDOUT) a table showing primary characteristics of
58 all ships in the game, to aid in balancing.
59 -w, --weapons
62 prints (to STDOUT) a table of characteristics of all the avail‐
63 able weapons.
64 -t, --talk
67 reads a data file from STDIN and looks for a "conversation" node
68 at the root level (i.e. not indentated). If it finds one, that
69 conversation is displayed in a pop-up dialog. This is for test‐
70 ing conversations in a new mission you are developing.
71 -r, --resources <directory>
74 sets the directory from which game resources (images, etc.) will
75 be loaded.
76 -c, --config <directory>
79 sets the directory where preferences and saved games will be
80 stored.
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84 Michael Zahniser (mzahniser@gmail.com)
85 This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
87 the terms of the GPL.
88ver. 0.9.8 15 Aug 2017 endless-sky(6)