---
name: "colobot"
section: "6"
platform: "linux"
package: "colobot"
version: "0.2.2-1"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/colobot"
---

# colobot(6)

educational programming strategy game

## NAME

colobot - educational programming strategy game

## SYNOPSIS

**colobot**

## DESCRIPTION

Colobot (Colonize with Bots) is an educational game aiming to teach programming through entertainment. You are playing as an astronaut on a journey with robot helpers to find a planet for colonization. It features 3D real-time graphics and a C++ and Java-like, object-oriented language, CBOT, which can be used to program the robots available in the game.

## OPTIONS

- **-help**

  Display a short help text

- **-resolution** *WxH*

  Set runtime screen resolution

- **-graphics** *default*\|*auto*\|*opengl*\|*gl14*\|*gl21*\|*gl33*

  Changes graphics device

- **-glversion** *default*\|*#.#*

  Sets OpenGL context version to use.

- **-glprofile** *default*\|*core*\|*compatibility*\|*opengles*

  Sets OpenGL context profile to use.

## RUNTIME PATH OVERRIDES

- **-langdir** */path/to/lang/*

  Set custom language directory path

- **-datadir** */path/to/data/*

  Set custom data directory path

- **-savedir** */path/to/save/*

  Set custom save directory path (must be writable)

- **-mod** */path/to/mods/*

  Set datadir mod path

## DEBUG OPTIONS

- **-loglevel** *trace*\|*debug*\|*info*\|*warn*\|*error*\|*none*.

  Set log level.

- **-debug** *all*\|*event*\|*models*\|...

  Enable debug mode (more info printed in logs). Possible values are as follows, as well as any comma-separated combination

  - sys\_events

    System events

  - update\_events

    Update events

  - app\_events

    Application events

  - events

    All above events

  - models

    Models-related debugging

  - all

    All above debugging statements

- **-headless**

  Run in headless mode - disables graphics, sound and user interaction

- **-runscene** *scenecodename*

  Run given scene on start (skip menus)

- **-scenetest**

  Win every mission right after it's loaded

## ENVIRONMENT

- LC\_MESSAGES

  Used to determine the runtime language.

## AUTHOR

This manpage was written by Didier Raboud \<odyx@debian.org\>.