lincity-ng - City simulator game with polished graphics
Contents
Description
This manual page documents briefly the usage of lincity-nglincity-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.
Name
lincity-ng - City simulator game with polished graphics
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)
Synopsis
lincity-ng [options]
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.
