CrunchBang Linux

DonVukodlak

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From: Serbia

Registered: 2014-06-17

Posts: 52

Crunchbang gaming.

All work and no play makes you nerds become dull boys. How do games work with #! and which one you play on it?

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Head_on_a_Stick

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From: A world of pure imagination

Registered: 2014-01-21

Posts: 4,797

Re: Crunchbang gaming.

I like being dull
You can run Steam on #!, but it's a bit of a faff --- try @Alad's script in that thread...

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twoion

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Re: Crunchbang gaming.

There's excellent games all the way. Tested and recommended by me:

Xonotic (link in my signature): Highly competitive, quake-like fps shooter. ctf, dm, freezetag, tdm etc pp with rad graphics. Active development, vibrant community. You can kick my ass here, pm me if you want to play sometime ^^

Emacs' tetris. No joke. M-x tetris is the best.

Hedgewars. Clone of the epic, classic Worms 3.

freeciv (package: freeciv-*). FOSS Civilization II (not sure?) clone. Time sink ahead...

Battle for Wesnoth (packages: wesnoth*). Round-based, very mature and interesting strategy game.

Red Eclipse (packages: redeclipse*). FOSS FPS arena shooter.

All of these are impressive, but Xonotic and Red Eclipse probably have the most refined graphics :-) Xon's my favourite.

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th3pun15h3r

#! Die Hard

Registered: 2011-11-22

Posts: 571

Re: Crunchbang gaming.

Steam linux client now has over 500 games for it!  My recommendations:

Cool metro is like exploring and action:

The fall
Dark matter

Fps:
Left4dead2
No room in hell
Nuclear dawn

Strategy/tactics:
Arma tactics
Breach and clear
Civilization 5

Rpg:
Jesabel
Witcher

Also with playonlinux /wine, I play world of warcraft flawlessly and have played diablo 3, rage, dead island just fine as well.

CSCoder4ever

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From: /dev/zero

Registered: 2013-09-03

Posts: 2,256

Re: Crunchbang gaming.

Crunchbang gaming is possible.

Back when I had my #! install, I had Unreal Tourney 2k4, and several other steam games.

tbh though I'm sort of parting away from gaming a little, too distracting

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uname

#! Junkie

Registered: 2013-03-15

Posts: 484

Re: Crunchbang gaming.

Crunchbang Waldorf based on Debian Wheezy. Search for Debian and Games.

xero

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Registered: 2013-09-30

Posts: 382

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Re: Crunchbang gaming.

i play mostly old school emulated games. linux has TONS of AWESOME retro console emulators.

i use: MAME, Stella, FCE-Ultra, ZSNES/SNES9x, VisualBoyAdvance, DeSmuMe, PCSX, and Dolphin

you can open a terminal and $ sudo apt-get install ... any of these

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twoion

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Re: Crunchbang gaming.

Crunchbang Waldorf based on Debian Wheezy. Search for Debian and Games.

debtags search game::<tab complete>
apt-cache search game

To be used as inspiration.

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linuxreign

#! Junkie

From: Panama

Registered: 2011-09-05

Posts: 254

Re: Crunchbang gaming.

Native
Wolfenstein Enemy Territory
The Battle for Wesnoth

DosBox
Doom
Duke Nukem Atomic
Wolfenstein 3D
Blood

I got Steam up and running also on the Debian Wheezy installation but my old GeForce 9800GT just kicked the bucket

Here Steam running on the Thinkpad T400

Edit: My wife heard me whining about the vid card and came forward with a new one....game on!!

Best Regards,

LinuxReign

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DonVukodlak

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From: Serbia

Registered: 2014-06-17

Posts: 52

Re: Crunchbang gaming.

Since gaming is possible, I'm thinking of making a #! Steam group. Drop your Steam names to get an invite.

EDIT: Just made one. http://steamcommunity.com/groups/hashbanggaming

Last edited by DonVukodlak (2014-06-19 13:42:07)

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rwsChris

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From: Stamford, CT, US

Registered: 2012-12-31

Posts: 61

Re: Crunchbang gaming.

There's this one as well: http://steamcommunity.com/groups/crunchbang.

linuxreign

#! Junkie

From: Panama

Registered: 2011-09-05

Posts: 254

Re: Crunchbang gaming.

There's this one as well: http://steamcommunity.com/groups/crunchbang.

Already joined Thank You!

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DonVukodlak

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From: Serbia

Registered: 2014-06-17

Posts: 52

Re: Crunchbang gaming.

Damn. Oh well. When you can't beat 'em, join 'em.

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dummie789

#! CrunchBanger

Registered: 2010-10-05

Posts: 105

Re: Crunchbang gaming.

Never been much of a gamer, even on Windoes.  In Linux I play Ltris and Burgerspace regularly. Burgerspace is definitely way old-school in every sense, but still a lot of fun. Ltris, another Tetris clone, actually relaxes my mind and helps clear some of the fog.

tivasyk

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From: kyiv, ukraine

Registered: 2010-08-30

Posts: 26

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Re: Crunchbang gaming.

1) dwarf fortress (link)
2) cataclysm: dark days ahead (link)

p.s. have steam and over 50 titles accumulated there, mostly humble bundle stuff, as well as minecraft. don't remember opening any of those for a long time though.

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ohnonot

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Registered: 2012-05-22

Posts: 2,205

Re: Crunchbang gaming.

i'm not a fan of fps.

i don't use steam, either.

i'm actually not playing games all that much, but these games i play regularly atm:

supertuxkart - i think it's the most and best developed linux game (i'm not saying it's the best game) and i enjoy something as simple as that a lot.
frogatto - a really well made retro side scrolling platform adventure.
freedink - i think this one is genuinely old, not retro. a graphical adventure with nerdy monologues; but i like the gameplay.

[ previously, i've been playing nethack with this interface and Beneath A Steel Sky which runs nicely on linux through ScummVM and, last not least, cave story (doukutsu) and ikachan and seiklus. ]

and there's this guy: http://nifflas.ni2.se/
most have a linux version, and some of the games are full-grown platform adventures.

all these are probably very easy games - i just don't see the point in ending up with knots in my shoulder muscles and nightmares while recreating.

all these are also free in every sense.

Last edited by ohnonot (2014-06-25 09:12:13)

xero

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Registered: 2013-09-30

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Re: Crunchbang gaming.

and there's this guy: http://nifflas.ni2.se/
most have a linux version, and some of the games are full-grown platform adventures.

wow, thanx for this! these look really cool!

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PixelPaintbrush

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Registered: 2014-06-24

Posts: 11

Re: Crunchbang gaming.

NICE, I'm excited to see how this will work..I like the Xonotic thing, reminds me of Nexuiz (before the whole console version thing on XBLA), though I think steam will be used in a VM on here.

cloverskull

#! Junkie

Registered: 2013-10-26

Posts: 377

Re: Crunchbang gaming.

You'll get better performance from Steam if you use it with PlayOnLinux (or natively, to support the games that have been ported). Running Steam in a VM sucks. You're constrained to max 128mb RAM, unless you can dedicate an additional graphics card to rendering everything inside the VM.

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PixelPaintbrush

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Registered: 2014-06-24

Posts: 11

Re: Crunchbang gaming.

You'll get better performance from Steam if you use it with PlayOnLinux (or natively, to support the games that have been ported). Running Steam in a VM sucks. You're constrained to max 128mb RAM, unless you can dedicate an additional graphics card to rendering everything inside the VM.

ouch

cloverskull

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Registered: 2013-10-26

Posts: 377

Re: Crunchbang gaming.

Video ram. Correction.

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PixelPaintbrush

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Registered: 2014-06-24

Posts: 11

Re: Crunchbang gaming.

it's cool, Got steam installed just fine and Xonotic is amazing

twoion

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Registered: 2012-05-11

Posts: 1,648

Re: Crunchbang gaming.

NICE, I'm excited to see how this will work..I like the Xonotic thing, reminds me of Nexuiz (before the whole console version thing on XBLA), though I think steam will be used in a VM on here.

Actually, it's a child of Nexuiz! You'll find many of the famous clans from Nexuiz playing Xonotic from time to time too (or they switched altogether). Like [力] Regulars, eXiLe and MoN – as powerful as ever.

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PixelPaintbrush

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Registered: 2014-06-24

Posts: 11

Re: Crunchbang gaming.

NICE, I'm excited to see how this will work..I like the Xonotic thing, reminds me of Nexuiz (before the whole console version thing on XBLA), though I think steam will be used in a VM on here.

Actually, it's a child of Nexuiz! You'll find many of the famous clans from Nexuiz playing Xonotic from time to time too (or they switched altogether). Like [力] Regulars, eXiLe and MoN – as powerful as ever.

And the amazing thing was, when I downloaded the .ZIP of the game, I didn't have to run a makefile or anything, just go in and run the 64-bit linux script and it works!

Phairoze

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Registered: 2011-04-29

Posts: 29

Re: Crunchbang gaming.

Let me start off by saying that I must be the only guy who buys a high end gaming rig (to play games) and only runs Linux on it (to play games). Yes that's right, I use Linux as my "hardcore" gaming OS.

As for what I play, well a lot. Minecraft is by far my most played and favourite game of all. Single player, of course, the way I prefer all my games (and not tied to Steam, the less on Steam the better). I also have over 3,000 DOS games, all full versions and all work. Fragile Allegiance is my favourite DOS game.

Many many others, of couse - UT2004 (my modded UT2004 Is over 100 GB installed), also many WINE games - Skyrim, Borderlands etc, I mention WINE because all the games I play on it run much better than Windows native. Everything. Anything is possible with know-how.