LAN Party Event Planning

Revision as of 08:14, 21 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.

Short List

FPS

• openarena - FPS
• bzflag - 3D tank battle game

RTS

• boswars - RTS
• glob2 - Indirect RTS

Turn-based strategy

• pioneers - Settlers of Catan clone

2D Platformer

• teeworlds - 2D deathmatch/capture the flag

Flinging things

• hedgewars - Worms-style game
• scorched3d - Scorched Earth, in 3D

Other

• castle-combat - Build and destroy castles
• xtris - Tetris
• gtetrinet - Multiplayer Tetris with power-ups
• liquidwar - Neat game

Medium List

FPS

• tremulous - Humans vs. Aliens team FPS

RTS

• warzone2100 - RTS

The rest

FPS

• alien-arena - FPS
• assaultcube - FPS
• battleball - Soccer with tanks and helicopters
• imaze - simple FPS
• netmaze - Simple FPS
• nexuiz - FPS
• warsow - FPS
• sauerbraten - FPS

RTS

• glest - RTS
• netpanzer - No resource RTS
• xbattle - Simple RTS

Turn-based Strategy

• wesnoth - Turn-based strategy
• freeciv - Civilisation clone
• freecol - Colonization clone
• gtkatlantic - Monopoly
• ksirk - Risk
• xconq - Turn-based strategy game, civ-like
• spellcast - Unique turn-based game

2D Platformer

• xevil - 2D platforming deathmatch
• jumpnbump - Deathmatch platformer (4P max)

Flinging Stuff at other players

Other

• acm - Combat Flight Sim
• armagetronad - Tron Light Cycles
• btanks - 2D death match in vehicles
• conquest - 2D, team-based, space battle game
• crack-attack - Tetris attack clone (2P only)
• crossfire - Roguelike MMO
• csmash - Table tennis simulation (2P only)
• gplanarity - Clone of the Flash game Planarity... might be good for a race
• mmpong - Massively-multiplayer pong
• xpilot - 2D space deathmatch
• netrek - 2D, team-based, space battle game

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)
• spring - RTS (Total Annihilation clone) (Crashes on my machine)
• wormux - Worms-like game (hedgewars is better)
• snowballz - RTS with penguins (Kinda crappy)
• supertuxkart - Cart racing game (splitscreen only)
• dopewars - Simple drug trading game (Only compete for high scores)