legesmotus(6) Games legesmotus(6)NAMElegesmotus - A team-based, networked, 2D shooter set in zero-gravity
SYNTAXlegesmotus [-f] [-n name] [-w width] [-h height]
Only the most useful options are listed here; see below for the remain‐
der.
DESCRIPTION
Leges Motus is a networked, team-based, 2D shooter set in zero-gravity.
Using only the force from jumping off of walls and the recoil from
their guns, players must travel across the arena to lower their oppo‐
nent's gate.
OPTIONS-f Run the game in fullscreen.
-n <name>
Sets your player name to <name> (defaults to your username).
-w <width>
Sets the width of the game window to <width>.
-h <height>
Sets the height of the game window to <height>.
-s <hostname>
Immediately connect to the server on <hostname>.
-t red|blue
Join the given team (only makes sense if you specify -s too).
-p <portno>
Connect to the server running on port <portno> (only makes sense
if you specify -s too).
-?, --help
Output help information and exit.
--version
Output version information and exit.
CONTROLS
space Jump in direction of mouse pointer.
left click
Fire in direction of mouse pointer.
right click
Switch weapons
1 through 8
Switch weapons (if available)
t Open chat.
y Open team chat.
~ Open chat log.
ESC Return to the main menu / close chat console.
tab Show the scoreboard.
COMMANDS
These commands are entered in the client's chat bar (press t or ~ to
show):
/tchat <message>
Send <message> privately to your teammates (you may also use the
y control to open a dedicated team chat bar).
/name <name>
Change your player name to <name>.
/team red|blue
Change to the specified team.
/quit Quit the game.
/server <command>
Send <command> to the server (see lmserver(6) for a list of com‐
mands supported by the server).
/legal Display legal information (copyright and warranty).
<name>: <message>
Send <message> privately to the player named <name>.
GAMEPLAY
The objective of the game is to reach the opposing team's gate and stay
next to it until it opens fully.
Shoot enemy players to freeze them. They will un-freeze a number of
seconds after they are frozen.
You can move by jumping off of any obstacle, and you will jump in the
direction of the mouse pointer. You will also move due to the recoil
from firing your gun. When frozen, you will bounce off of obstacles. If
you unfreeze away from obstacles, shoot your weapon to move back
towards the nearest obstacle.
FILES
$LM_DATA_DIR/fonts
$LM_DATA_DIR/maps
$LM_DATA_DIR/sounds
$LM_DATA_DIR/sprites
$LM_DATA_DIR/weapons
$HOME/.legesmotusrc
/etc/legesmotusrc
ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
LM_DATA_DIR
Specifies the location of the directory containing Leges Motus
data files.
LM_METASERVER
Specifies the address to use for connecting to the meta server
(which allows the Internet-wide server browser to work). This
is useful only for testing alternative meta servers, and should
not be used generally.
EXAMPLES
To just run the game:
legesmotus
To run the game in fullscreen:
legesmotus-f
To connect to the server on example.com, port 1234, on the blue team:
legesmotus-s example.com -p 1234 -t blue
To set your name from within the game:
/name Andromedus
To send a message to your team:
/tchat Cover me, I'm going for the gate!
AUTHORS
Andrew Ayer <agwadude@users.sourceforge.net>
Nathan Partlan <greywhind@users.sourceforge.net>
Jeffrey Pfau <archaemic@users.sourceforge.net>
COPYRIGHT
Copyright 2009-2010 Andrew Ayer, Nathan Partlan, Jeffrey Pfau
Leges Motus is free and open source software. You may redistribute it
and/or modify it under the terms of version 2, or (at your option) ver‐
sion 3, of the GNU General Public License (GPL), as published by the
Free Software Foundation.
Leges Motus is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MER‐
CHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the full text of
the GNU General Public License for further detail.
For a full copy of the GNU General Public License, please see the COPY‐
ING file in the root of the source code tree. You may also retrieve a
copy from <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.txt>, or request a copy
by writing to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place,
Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
SEE ALSOlmserver(6), lmscan(6)AGWA, Greywhind, Archaemic 0.4 legesmotus(6)
