Tested: Ubuntu 7.10 64bit - Gnome


Bos Wars is a futuristic real time strategy game (RTS). In a RTS game, the player has to combat his enemies while developing his war economy. Everything runs in real-time, as opposed to turn-based games where the player always has to wait for his turn. The trick is to balance the effort put into building his economy and building an army to defend and attack the enemies.

Bos Wars has a dynamic rate based economy. Energy is produced by power plants and magma gets pumped from hot spots. Buildings and mobile units are also built at a continuous rate. Control of larger parts of the map creates the potential to increase your economy throughput. Holding key points like roads and passages allow for different strategies.

It is possible to play against human opponents over LAN, internet, or against the computer. Bos Wars successfully runs under Linux, MS Windows, BSD, and Mac OS X.

Bos Wars aims to create a completely original and fun open source RTS game.

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Make sure that the driver to your 3D graphic card is proper installed and working.
Check if your sourcelist is fully enable (universe and multiverse).

Next the tools and libs is needed to build and run Battle of Survival.

Code:

sudo aptitude update && sudo aptitude safe-upgrade
sudo aptitude install build-essential scons
sudo aptitude install libsdl1.2-dev libsdl-image1.2-dev libsdl-mixer1.2-dev libvorbis-dev libtheora-dev libgl1-mesa-dev libglu1-mesa-dev liblua5.1-0-dev libmikmod2-dev

Done.

Download Battle of Survival source (.tar) to your Desktop.

Download

Code:

mkdir -p ~/.Games/bos
cd ~/Desktop
tar zxfv boswars-2.5-src.tar.gz
cd boswars-2.5-src
scons
cp -r * ~/.Games/bos

Done.

Save bos.png to your Desktop.

Code:

cd ~/Desktop
mv bos.png ~/.Games/bos
nano ~/.Games/Bos-launcher.sh

Add the following;

Save (ctrl)+(o) and Exit (ctrl)+(x).


Code:

chmod +x  ~/.Games/Bos-launcher.sh
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Go to Games and make a new entry;

You can now launch Battle for Survival from Applications —> Games —> Battle for Survival

Enjoy!

Written and Published by Artificial Intelligence