lxdoom-game-server(6)

NAME

lxdoom-game-server - Server for network games of LxDoom.

SYNOPSIS

lxdoom-game-sever [ -adfnrv ] [ -e epis ] [ -l level  ]  [
-t ticdup ]  [ -x xtics ] [ -p port ] [ -s skill ] [ -N players ]
[ -w wadname[,dl_url ]]

DESCRIPTION

LxDoom is a version of the 3D shoot'em'up Doom, originally

by id software. It includes, amongst other things, the ability

to play with several players connected by a tcp/ip network. lx

doom-game-server is the `server', that is the program that passes

data between the different players in the game.

To start a network game (often abbreviated to `netgame'),

first the server is started. lxdoom-game-server accepts various

parameters to control the type of game (the skill level, number

of players, level to play, optional WAD file(s) to load, etc).

Then each player that wishes to participate runs lxdoom

-net hostname, where hostname is the name of the machine on which

the server is running. Each copy of lxdoom retrieves information

about the game from the server, and when the specified number of

players have joined, the game begins.

Options

-N players

Specifies the number of players in the game (de

fault 2). The server will wait for this many players to join be

fore starting the game.

-e epis

The episode to play (default 1). Unless you are

playing Doom 1 or Ultimate Doom, and wish to play one of the lat

er episodes, you do not need to change this.

-l level

The level to play (default 1).

-s skill

Specify the skill level to play (1-5).

-d Set game mode to (old) deathmatch (default is coop

erative). See the original Doom docs for information about the

different network game modes.

-a Set game mode to `altdeath' (v2 deathmatch) (de

fault is cooperative). See the original Doom docs for information

about the different network game modes.

-f Select fast mode (monsters move faster).

-n Selects nomonsters mode, i.e. there are no monsters

in the game.

-r Respawn mode. If you don't know what this is, you

don't want to ;-).

-w wadname[,dl_url]

Specifies a WAD file to play. This is added to the

internal list that the server keeps. When a client connects, the

server sends the list of WADs; LxDoom will then add this to the

list of WADs specified on its command line. Optionally, an url

to the file can be given too; if when LxDoom connects it cannot

find the named WAD, it will attempt to retrieve the file from the

given url, extracting it if necessary. See lxdoom(1) for informa

tion about the supported url types and compression formats.

-t ticdup

Reserved.

-x xtics

This causes extra information to be sent with each

network packet; this will help on networks with high packet loss,

but will use more bandwidth.

-p port

Tells lxdoom-game-server what port number to commu

nicate via (default 5030). Note that if you change this from the

default, then all the clients will also need to specify this num

ber when they try to connect (the default programmed into lxdoom

is also 5030).

-v Increases verbosity level; causes more diagnostics

to be printed, the more times -v is specified.

More Information

lxdoom(6), boom.cfg(5)

For more information, see the README that came with Lx

Doom.

Doom is a registered trademark of id software

(http://www.idsoftware.com).

Author

LxDoom was ported to Linux and is maintained by Colin

Phipps (cph@lxdoom.linuxgames.com).

Boom was based on an early version of DosDoom

(http://frag.com/dosdoom) which was based on the original Doom

source code as released by id Software (http://www.idsoft

ware.com). See the file AUTHORS for more details.

local LXDOOM

GAME-SERVER(6)