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.

Please check Synaptic package manager for Battle for Survival or Getdeb if they have an up-to-date ubuntu package available.

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).

To get Battle for Survival to work you need the right libs;

Code:

sudo aptitude update && sudo aptitude upgrade
sudo aptitude install libsdl-image1.2 libsdl-mixer1.2 liblua50 libmikmod2

Done.

Download Battle for Survival (linux version) to your Desktop;

Download

Code:

cd ~/Desktop
mkdir -p ~/.Games/bos
tar zxfv boswars-2.4.1-linux.tar.gz
cd boswars-2.4.1-linux
mv * ~/.Games/bos

Download the bos.png to your Desktop.

Code:

cd ~/Desktop
mv bos.png ~/.Games/bos
nano ~/.Games/bos/LaunchBos.sh

Add the following;

Save (ctrl)+(o) and Exit (ctrl)+(x)
Once more to the terminal;

Code:

chmod +x  ~/.Games/bos/LaunchBos.sh
alacarte

Go to Games and make a new entry;

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

Enjoy!