Title: Playing Slay the Spire on OpenBSD | |
Author: Solène | |
Date: 01 April 2019 | |
Tags: openbsd gaming | |
Description: | |
Thanks to a hard work from thfr@, it is now possible to play the | |
commercial game **Slay The Spire** on OpenBSD. | |
Small introduction to the game: it's a solo deck building game where | |
you need to escalate a tower. Each floor may contain enemie(s) or a | |
treasure or a merchant or an elite (harder enemies) or an event. | |
There are four characters playable, each unlocked after playing with | |
the previous one. The game is really easy to understand, every game (or | |
run) restart from the beginning with your character, at every new floor | |
you may earn items and cards to build a deck for this run. | |
When you die, you can unlock some new items per characters and unlock | |
cards for next runs. The goal is to reach the top of the tower. Each | |
character is really different to play and each allow a few obvious deck | |
builds. | |
The game work with an OpenBSD 6.5 minimum but this method using libgdx | |
will work since 6.9. For this you will need: | |
1. Buy Slay The Spire on GOG or Steam | |
2. Copy files from a Slay The Spire installation (Windows or Linux) to | |
your OpenBSD system or unzip the linux installer .sh file | |
3. Install some packages with pkg_add: openal jdk-11 lwjgl libgdx | |
4. Search for the .jar file (biggest file), then run libgdx-setup to | |
extract data from the jar file and prepare the game. | |
5. Run the game with libgdx-run | |
4. Don't forget to eat, hydrate yourself and sleep. This game is time | |
consuming :) | |
All settings and saves are stored in the game folder, so you may want | |
to backup it if you don't want to lose your progression. | |
Again, thanks to thfr@ for his huge work on making games working on | |
OpenBSD! |