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] [-w]
11 [--weapons] [-t] [--talk] [-r] [--resources] [-c] [--config] [-p]
12 [--parse-save]
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16 Endless Sky is a space exploration and combat game combining action and
17 role playing elements.
18 Explore other star systems. Earn money by trading, carrying passengers,
20 or completing missions. Use your earnings to buy a better ship or to
21 upgrade the weapons and engines on your current one. Blow up pirates.
22 Take sides in a civil war. Or leave human space behind and hope to find
23 some friendly aliens whose culture is more civilized than your own.
24 For keyboard controls, click the "Preferences" button on the title
26 screen. You can pause and return to the title screen at any point in
27 the game by pressing <escape>.
28 Most of the controls should be self-explanatory. Your ship has no
30 reverse thrusters, so as with a real spacecraft, the only way to slow
31 down is to turn your ship around and accelerate in the opposite direc‐
32 tion from your current heading. To assist with some tricky maneuvers,
33 your ship has an autopilot which engages when you press 'L' to land or
34 'J' to enter hyperspace; the autopilot disengages if you press any of
35 the movement keys. The autopilot will also automatically aim your ship
36 if you are firing a weapon and have a target selected.
37 For a manual and other information, visit https://endless-sky.github.io
39 When run from the command line, if a resource directory is not speci‐
41 fied, the program will check to see if the current directory contains
42 directories named "data" and "images" and files named "keys.txt" and
43 "credits.txt"; if so it will read resources from the current directory.
44 Otherwise it will use /usr/local/share/games/endless-sky if it exists,
45 or /usr/share/games/endless-sky/ otherwise.
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49 -h, --help
50 prints a short help message.
51 -v, --version
54 prints the software version.
55 -s, --ships
58 prints (to STDOUT) a table showing primary characteristics of
59 all ships in the game, to aid in balancing. This option prevents
60 the game from launching.
61 -w, --weapons
64 prints (to STDOUT) a table of characteristics of all the avail‐
65 able weapons. This option prevents the game from launching.
66 -t, --talk
69 reads a data file from STDIN and looks for a "conversation" node
70 at the root level (i.e. not indentated). If it finds one, that
71 conversation is displayed in a pop-up dialog. This is for test‐
72 ing conversations in a new mission you are developing.
73 -r, --resources <directory>
76 sets the directory from which game resources (images, etc.) will
77 be loaded.
78 -c, --config <directory>
81 sets the directory where preferences and saved games will be
82 stored.
83 -p, --parse-save
86 prints any content or whitespace-formatting errors found while
87 loading data files and the most recent saved game. This option
88 prevents the game from launching.
89
92 Michael Zahniser (mzahniser@gmail.com)
93 This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
95 the terms of the GPL.
96ver. 0.9.10 28 Sep 2019 endless-sky(6)