LAN Party Event Planning

Revision as of 17:32, 13 July 2010

The Basic Idea

Ubuntu is cool, and does well on a Live DVD. Why not make one that has lots of games, then we can have a LAN Party where people bring in any computer and they don't have to worry about installing games.

Installation Instructions

You can install Ubuntu in Windows by using Wubi. If you do this, make sure that your disk is more than 10 GB. The games alone take up 5. You can then either install games individually, or install them all using the metapackage.

To use the metapackage, go to System -> Administration -> Software Sources, enter your password, go to the Other Software tab, choose Add..., then enter the following into the box: deb http://gerlach.ca/ubuntu/apt lanparty main. Click Add Source then Close. Reload your software list when it asks. Then go to System -> Administration -> Synaptic Package Manager. In the Quick Search box, type lan-testing. Install that package. Warning: the lan-testing package requires 2.5GB of downloads and over 4GB of disk space!

Game List

I went through the Ubuntu games list and found some multiplayer games.

• acm - Combat Flight Sim
• alien-arena - FPS
• armagetronad - Tron Light Cycles
• assaultcube - FPS
• battleball - Soccer with tanks and helicopters
• boswars - RTS
• btanks - 2D death match in vehicles
• bzflag - 3D tank battle game
• castle-combat - Build and destroy castles
• conquest - 2D, team-based, space battle game
• crack-attack - Tetris attack clone (2P only)
• crossfire - Roguelike MMO
• csmash - Table tennis simulation (2P only)
• dopewars - Simple drug trading game
• freeciv - Civilisation clone
• freecol - Colonization clone
• glest - RTS
• glob2 - Indirect RTS
• gplanarity - Clone of the Flash game Planarity... might be good for a race
• gtetrinet - Multiplayer Tetris with power-ups
• gtkatlantic - Monopoly
• hedgewars - Worms-style game
• imaze - simple FPS
• jumpnbump - Deathmatch platformer (4P max)
• ksirk - Risk
• liquidwar - Neat game
• mmpong - Massively-multiplayer pong
• netmaze - Simple FPS
• netrek - 2D, team-based, space battle game
• openarena - FPS
• pioneers - Settlers of Catan clone
• sauerbraten - FPS
• scorched3d - Scorched Earth, in 3D
• snowballz - RTS with penguins
• spellcast - Unique turn-based game
• spring - RTS (Total Annihilation clone)
• supertuxkart - Cart racing game
• teeworlds - 2D deathmatch/capture the flag
• tremulous - Humans vs. Aliens team FPS
• warsow - FPS
• wesnoth - Turn-based strategy
• warzone2100 - RTS
• wormux - Worms-like game
• xbattle - Simple RTS
• xconq - Turn-based strategy game, civ-like
• xevil - 2D platforming deathmatch
• xpilot - 2D space deathmatch
• xtris - Tetris

Discarded Games

• antigravitaattori - Multiplayer flying saucer game (Not network - only hotseat)
• attal - Turn-based strategy (Crap)
• ktron - Tron Light Cycles (Single Player Only)
• luola - Cave-flying game (Hotseat only)
• kolf - Mini golf (Hotseat only)
• gnibbles - Nibbles (Network play is broken - https://bugs.launchpad.net/gnome-games/+bug/565030)
• heroes - Tron/nibbles-like (Fun... but only hotseat)
• pengupop - Bust-a-move clone (Seems to only work with a specific master server... which is down)
• stax - Multiplayer Tetris and other games (Hotseat only... and kinda crappy)
• starvoyager - Star Trek 2D shoot-me-up game (Gameplay is boring)
• gltron - Tron Light Cycles (Not actually multiplayer)
• extremetuxracer - racing (Not multiplayer)
• gbatnav - Battleship (Server crashes on startup)