instead6

Usage

Overview

The interpreter of STEAD (Simple Text Adventures) allows one to play games that combine visual novels, text adventures and classic quests of 1990-s. The STEAD games features are:

* very simple source code of the stories. (based on LUA);

* graphical game interface;

* supports music and images;

* theme support - a game may change the interface look;

* portability (originally written for Linux, depends on SDL and lua).

Options

-debug

Debug mode (for game developers).

-nosound

Run the game without sound.

-vsync

Vsync output. (SDL2 only)

-gamespath <path>

Add path with games.

-themespath <path>

Add path with themes.

-nostdgames

Do not use default games.

-nostdthemes

Do not use default themes.

-game <basename>

Select game in gamespath.

-theme <basename>

Select theme in themespath.

-owntheme

Force game to use own theme.

-notheme

Do not use own game theme.

-fullscreen

Run the game in fullscreen mode.

-nocursor

Do not use game mouse cursors (use system one)

-hires / -nohires

Set/unset the high resolution when run in fullscreen mode.

-window

Run the game in windowed mode.

-resizable

Resizable window (SDL2 only)

-scale <scale>

Scale window (SDL2 only)

-noautosave

Disable autosave load.

-mode [WxH]

Use WxH resolution.

-modes <WxH>[,<WxH>[,<WxH>]] ...

Define available resolutions.

-software

Force software rendering

-renderer <opengl|direct3d|software|...>

Select default renderer (SDL2 only)

-fontscale <percents>

Font scaling.

-nopause

Do not pause the game on window minimize.

-lang <lang code>

Select language.

-hinting 0|1|2|3

Set the font hinting mode (helpful with infinality).

-install [game in zip]

Install game from zip archive

-quit

Quit :)

-appdata [fullpath]

Store saves and settings in appdata path. Path must exist!

-chunksize [size in bytes]

Size for audio buffer. Try this if sound lags.

-version

Show version and exit.

-lua <script.lua> [arguments]

Exec lua script (for game developers).

-luac <script.lua>

Check lua script (for game developers).

-standalone

Run game in standalone mode (no sandbox, no games selection ...).

-noconfig

Do not load saved config (run with defaults).

-profile <profile>

Using configuration profile. Profile file is the ini-styled file with parameter = value pairs. Where is parameters are arguments without -.

Configuration file name is 'insteadrc' and it's located in ~/.instead/.

Games can be downloaded from http://instead-games.sf.net. Unzip them in ~/.instead/games.

Controls

Please, see tutorial.

Licence

This software is covered by the terms of the MIT license.

Warranty

None.

Copyright and credits

Peter Kosyh

INSTEAD author.

Ilya Ryndin

Initial port to Windows.

Boris Timofeev, Anton Kolosov, Aleksey Mahno

Port to Android.

.dm

Port to Mac OS X.

Andrey Afletdinov

Port to Windows CE.

Vadim Balashoff

Advices.

Vladimir Zhirov

Advices.

Alexander Yakovlev

manual.tex support.

Serj Kalichev

Advices and default theme correction.

Vladimir Podobaev, Oleg Gvozdev

Testers.

Alexander Soborov

Wiki support.

Andrew Lobanov

Games repository, slackbuild.

Many others for comments, bug reports, games and ideas.