spacezero(6)
NAME
spacezero - Explore and conquer all space
SYNOPSIS
spacezero [GENERAL_OPTIONS] [-c | -s] [GAME_OPTIONS] spacezero -h
DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the spacezero command. spacezero is a Real Time Strategy 2D space combat, multiplayer (two players by now) net game. The objective is to conquer the space, defeating all enemies. At starting point you have only one ship and one planet, but you have gold to buy more ships to conquer more planets. All the ships can be controlled by the computer (automatic mode) or by the player (manual mode). You can easily change among your ships controlling all of them independly.
GENERAL OPTIONS
-nosound
Sound disabled.
-nomusic
Music disabled.
-name player_name
Where player_name is the name of the player.
-f font
Change the default font by font.
-s
Server mode (multiplayer).
-c
Client mode (multiplayer).
-h
Show summary of options and keyboard controls.
GAME OPTIONS
-n N
Play with N number of planets (default 30).
-p N
Play with N number of players (default 2).
-g N
Play with N number of galaxies (default 1).
-l N
Play with N as the size of the Universe.
-k
planets are known by all the players.
-cooperative
cooperative mode (all humans allied).
-compcooperative
computer cooperative mode (all computers allied).
-queen
Queen mode.
-nopirates
Dont add a team of pirates.
MULTIPLAYER OPTIONS
-ip IP
where IP is the ip of the server.(default 127.0.0.1)
-port n
where n and n+1 are the tcp ports used.(default 8000)
BUGS
Not tested in net between 32 and 64 machines. Maybe doesn't work properly Not so tested in an internet connection. Maybe doesn't work properly.
AUTHOR
Romanella Di Ferdinando <romanelladf@gmail.com>
Wrote this manpage for the Debian system.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright 2011 Julia Palandri, Lucia Prado, Romanella Di Ferdinando This manual page was written for the Debian system (and may be used by others). Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 3 or (at your option) any later version published by the Free Software Foundation. On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.
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