LAN Party Event Planning
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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
RTS
- boswars - RTS
- glob2 - Indirect RTS
- warzone2100 - RTS
- xbattle - Simple RTS
Turn-based strategy
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
- dopewars - Simple drug trading game
- xtris - Tetris
- gtetrinet - Multiplayer Tetris with power-ups
- liquidwar - Neat game
- supertuxkart - Cart racing game
- netrek - 2D, team-based, space battle game
Medium List
FPS
- tremulous - Humans vs. Aliens team FPS
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
Turn-based Strategy
- wesnoth - Turn-based strategy
- freeciv - Civilisation clone
- freecol - Colonization clone
- gtkatlantic - Monopoly
- ksirk - Risk
- xconq - Turn-based strategy game, civ-like
2D Platformer
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
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)
