lincity-ng6

Usage

Overview

This manual page documents briefly the usage of lincity-ng

lincity-ng is a City Simulation Game. It is a polished and improved version of the old LinCity game: You are required to build and maintain a city. You must feed, house, provide jobs and goods for your residents. You can build a sustainable economy with the help of renewable energy and recycling, or you can go for broke and build rockets to escape from a pollution ridden and resource starved planet, it's up to you. Due to the finite resources available in any one place, this is not a game that you can leave for long periods of time.

This game is similar to the commercial simulation game with a similar name.

Options

These programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-'). A summary of options is included below.

-h, --help

Show summary of options.

-v, --version

Show version of program.

-g, --gl

Use the OpenGL display mode

-s, --sdl

Use the SDL display mode

-w, --window

Run lincity-ng in windowed mode

-f, --fullscreen

Run lincity-ng in fullscreen mode

-m, --mute

Turn off sound

-S, --size

specify screensize (eg. -S 1024x768)

UPGRADE from 1.x to 2.x

A new format for saved games is used since 2.0, but old games can be imported and automagically converted. Just copy $HOME/.lincity/* (old location for lincity and lincity-ng 1.x) to $HOME/.lincity-ng/ (new location since 2.0).

cp -a ~/.lincity/* ~/.lincity-ng/

At the start of the game, one message will popup to remind you have some changes to do in your city.