catman

Small, no-nonsense CLI launcher and game management tool for Cataclysm.

Features

• Supports Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead, Cataclysm: Bright Nights, and Cataclysm: The Last Generation.
• macOS support
• Download and launch games
• Manage tilesets, soundpacks, mods, and fonts
• Save and restore backups
• Preserve settings and saves between game versions

Installation

1. Install uv.

2. Install catman:

   uv tool install catman
   

Usage

From your terminal, run:

catman

catman launches an interactive shell. Use help to see available commands:

Application               
──────────────────────────
 Name   Description       
──────────────────────────
 help   Show catman help. 
 quit   Quit catman.      


Data                                      
──────────────────────────────────────────
 Name         Description                 
──────────────────────────────────────────
 backups      Manage save backups.        
 data         Manage user data directory. 
 fonts        Manage fonts.               
 mods         Manage mods.                
 soundpacks   Manage soundpacks.          
 tilesets     Manage tilesets.            


Game                                                             
─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
 Name       Description                                          
─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
 builds     List and manage downloaded builds.                   
 download   Download a game build.                               
 launch     Launch the active game build.                        
 status     Show current variant, channel, build, and save info. 
 variant    Switch active game variant.                          

Starting from scratch

1. Select your game variant using variant
2. Download a version using download
3. Install any tilesets, soundpacks, mods, or fonts (tilesets, soundpacks, mods, fonts)
4. Launch the game with launch
5. Have fun!

Note

If you get rate limited by GitHub when downloading content, set GITHUB_TOKEN in your environment.

Todo

• Verify Linux support
• Add tests
• Add additional tilesets
• Add additional mods
• Add additional fonts
• [maybe] Add Windows support

Developer setup

git clone https://github.com/logkirk/catman.git
cd catman
uv venv
uv pip install -e .
uv run catman