---
name: "ballerburg"
section: "6"
platform: "linux"
package: "ballerburg"
version: "1.2.2-4"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/ballerburg"
---

# ballerburg(6)

A castle combat game

## NAME

ballerburg - A castle combat game

## SYNOPSIS

**ballerburg**

## DESCRIPTION

Ballerburg is a castle combat game. Two players (which can be human or computer-controlled) try to destroy the opponent's castle with their cannons.

There are two ways to win the game: Either by directly hitting the opponents king with a cannonball, or by destroying enough of the opponents commodities so that the king capitulates automatically.

## COMMANDS

Beside the intuitive control of the game with the mouse cursor, there are a couple of shortcut keys, too:

- **ESC**

  show the settings dialog

- **f**

  toggle fullscreen mode

- **t**

  show high-score table

- **q**

  quit Ballerburg

## COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 1987, 1989  Eckhard Kruse\
 Copyright (C) 2010, 2015  Thomas Huth

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program.  If not, see \<http://www.gnu.org/licenses/\>.

## SEE ALSO

The main program documentation, usually in /usr/share/doc/ballerburg.

The homepage of Ballerburg SDL: http://baller.tuxfamily.org/