NAME

       endless-sky - a space exploration and combat game.

SYNOPSIS

       endless-sky  [-h]  [--help]  [-v]  [--version]  [-s]  [--ships]  [-r] [-w] [--weapons] [-t] [--talk] [-r]
       [--resources] [-c] [--config]

DESCRIPTION

       Endless Sky is a space exploration and combat game combining action and role playing elements.

       Explore other star systems. Earn money by trading, carrying passengers, or completing missions. Use  your
       earnings to buy a better ship or to upgrade the weapons and engines on your current one. Blow up pirates.
       Take  sides  in  a  civil  war.  Or  leave human space behind and hope to find some friendly aliens whose
       culture is more civilized than your own.

       For keyboard controls, click the "Preferences" button on the title screen. You can pause  and  return  to
       the title screen at any point in the game by pressing <escape>.

       Most  of  the  controls should be self-explanatory. Your ship has no reverse thrusters, so as with a real
       spacecraft, the only way to slow down is to  turn  your  ship  around  and  accelerate  in  the  opposite
       direction  from  your  current  heading. To assist with some tricky maneuvers, your ship has an autopilot
       which engages when you press 'L' to land or 'J' to enter hyperspace;  the  autopilot  disengages  if  you
       press  any  of the movement keys. The autopilot will also automatically aim your ship if you are firing a
       weapon and have a target selected.

       For a manual and other information, visit https://endless-sky.github.io

       When run from the command line, if a resource directory is not specified, the program will check  to  see
       if  the  current  directory contains directories named "data" and "images" and files named "keys.txt" and
       "credits.txt"; if so  it  will  read  resources  from  the  current  directory.  Otherwise  it  will  use
       /usr/local/share/games/endless-sky if it exists, or /usr/share/games/endless-sky/ otherwise.

OPTIONS

       -h, --help
              prints a short help message.

       -v, --version
              prints the software version.

       -s, --ships
              prints  (to  STDOUT)  a  table showing primary characteristics of all ships in the game, to aid in
              balancing.

       -w, --weapons
              prints (to STDOUT) a table of characteristics of all the available weapons.

       -t, --talk
              reads a data file from STDIN and looks for a "conversation" node  at  the  root  level  (i.e.  not
              indentated).  If  it  finds  one,  that  conversation is displayed in a pop-up dialog. This is for
              testing conversations in a new mission you are developing.

       -r, --resources <directory>
              sets the directory from which game resources (images, etc.) will be loaded.

       -c, --config <directory>
              sets the directory where preferences and saved games will be stored.

AUTHOR

       Michael Zahniser (mzahniser@gmail.com)

       This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GPL.

ver. 0.9.8                                         15 Aug 2017                                    endless-sky(6)