lierolibre

Synopsis

[inputfile [inputdir [outputfile]]]

[ -f|--file inputfile ] [ -d|--dir inputdir ] [ -w|--write outputfile ] [ -v|--sdlvideo videodriver ] [ -h|--help ]

Description

lierolibre is an old-school earthworm action game. It is a direct fork of Liero.

Features:

• 2 worms, 40 weapons, great playability, two game modes: Kill'em All and Game of Tag, plus AI-players without true intelligence!
• Extensions via a hidden F1 menu:

• Replays, game controller support, powerlevel palettes

lierolibre is a script which executes the lierolibre binary from the /usr/lib/games/lierolibre directory. The script defaults to using the directory /usr/share/games/lierolibre as the inputfile parameter.

If inputfile points to a directory (which is the default case), lierolibre copies the file liero.cfg from this directory to $HOME/.lierolibre/ unless it already exists in this location. liero.cfg is a plain text file which can be modified, go wild! But don't be surprised if the game crahes ;)

Options

[-f|--file] inputfile

Reads game variables from the given file or directory.

If inputfile

points to a directory or a file with an unknown extension, and inputdir is not set,
OR
if inputfile points to a directory and inputdir is set,
the game will try to load the liero.cfg file from $HOME/.lierolibre/ first, otherwise it loads it from the directory of inputfile.

[-d|--dir] inputdir

Reads the files LIERO.CHR LIERO.SND NAMES.DAT

from the given directory. If not set, the game uses the directory of inputfile instead.

[-w|--write] outputfile

Writes all game variables to a plain text file.

-v|--sdlvideo videodriver

Sets the SDL_VIDEODRIVER environment variable.

-h|--help

Print a brief help overview.

Examples

lierolibre mymod/LIERO.EXE

Reads game variables from a (potentially) modded EXE file, and reads game data from files in mymod/.

lierolibre -f mymod/LIERO.EXE -d /usr/share/games/lierolibre -w mymod_liero.cfg

Reads game variables from a (potentially) modded EXE file and writes them to a plain text config file (and starts the game).

lierolibre mymod_liero.cfg mydata

Reads game variables from a custom plain text config file, and reads the game data from another directory.

Authors

This manual page was written by Martin Erik Werner <martinerikwerner@gmail.com>

History

Joosa Reikkinen "Mets„nEl„imet"
created the original Liero game and graphics.

Erik Lindroos "Gliptic", with help from Mario Carbajal "basro"
re-created Liero as OpenLiero, which later became the official version of Liero.

Martin Erik Werner "arand"
created lierolibre as a direct fork from Liero (OpenLiero).

"sea"
created the replacement sounds used in lierolibre.