GNUROBOTS(6) Games Manual GNUROBOTS(6)NAME
gnurobots - Program a robot to explore a world
SYNOPSIS
gnurobots [OPTION]... [FILE]
DESCRIPTION
GNU Robots is a game/diversion where you construct a program for a little robot, then watch him explore a world. The world is filled with
baddies that can hurt you, objects that you can bump into, and food that you can eat. The goal of the game is to collect as many prizes as
possible before you are killed by a baddie or you run out of energy.
Programs for the robot are written in Scheme.
GNU Robots will run the scheme file given as FILE.
OPTIONS -f FILE, --map-file=FILE
Specify the map to load.
-s N, --shields=N
Set initial shields to N
-e N, --energy=N
Set initial energy to N
-V, --version
Output version information and exit.
-h, --help
Display a summary of command-line syntax.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2008 Bradley Smith <brad@brad-smith.co.uk>
Copyright (C) 1998 Jim Hall <jhall1@isd.net>
This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free
Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later version without ANY WARRANTIES.
AUTHOR
GNU Robots was written by Bradley Smith <brad@brad-smith.co.uk> and Jim Hall <jhall1@isd.net>
This manual page was written by Bradley Smith <brad@brad-smith.co.uk>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system. The original game does not come
with a manual page.
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ricochet - client application for multi-player ricochet robots game
SYNOPSIS
ricochet --host <hostname> --port <port> --name <username> --game <gamename> --watch
DESCRIPTION
Ricochet is a client for the Ricochet Robots server (rrserve). It provides a view of the board and permits the user to fully interact with
the server, both managing the set of games running in the server and playing individual games.
USAGE
Options are as follows:
--help,--usage
Print a help/usage message and exit.
-h,--host hostname
Select the host running the Ricochet Robots server. By default, ricochet connects to localhost
-p,--port port
Select the TCP port to connect to. By default, ricochet connects to port 5252.
-n,--name username
Specify the player name to present to the server. This name will be shown to all other players. By default, this is the user's login
name.
-g,--game gamename
Select a game to join or create. By default, ricochet presents a dialog showing the available games and also allowing the user to
create a new game.
-w,--watch
This allows the user to watch the selected game rather than participating in it.
AUTHOR
icochet is the work of Keith Packard <keithp@keithp.com>
Ricochet is
Copyright 2003,2012 Keith Packard. All Rights Reserved.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; version 2 of the License.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MER-
CHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA. Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limi-
tation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons
to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
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