Kuara demo is a clever low-poly action tower-defense real-time-strategy game. You can equip your character with mech-ish weaponry and attack the enemy bases before they attack yours. Wave after wave defend your base, or obliterate theirs with projectile weapons from your three unique mechs.



Follow my step-by-step guide on installing, configuring and optimizing Kuara Demo in Linux with PlayOnLinux.

Note: This guide applies to the itch.io version of Kuara Demo. Other versions may require additional steps.

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Mint 19 64-bit
PlayOnLinux: 4.3.4
Wine: 4.11-staging

Wine Installation

Click Tools
Select "Manage Wine Versions"



Look for the Wine Version: 4.11-staging
Select it
Click the arrow pointing to the right



Click Next

Downloading Wine



Extracting

Installed



Click (amd64) Tab
Select 4.0
Click the arrow pointing to the right



Downloading Wine 64-bit



Installed



Wine 4.11-staging 32-bit and 64-bit is installed, you can close this window

Download Kuara
Save to your Desktop
https://leongdev.itch.io/kuara

PlayOnLinux Setup

Launch PlayOnLinux
Click Install



Click "Install a non-listed program"



Select "Install a program in a new virtual drive"
Click Next



Name the virtual drive: kuara
Click Next



Check all three options:

• Use another version of Wine
• Configure Wine
• Install some libraries

Click Next



Select Wine 4.11-staging
Click Next



Select "64 bits windows installation"
Click Next



Wine Configuration

Applications Tab
Windows version: Windows 7



Graphics Tab
Check "Automatically capture the mouse in full-screen windows"
Click OK



PlayOnLinux Packages (DLLs, Libraries, Components)

Check the following:

• POL_Install_corefonts
• POL_Install_d3dx10
• POL_Install_d3dx11
• POL_Install_d3dx9
• POL_Install_tahoma

Click Next



Note: All packages should automatically download and install

Do not click Browse
Kuara demo does not have an installer
Click Cancel



Open Kuara with your Archive Manager
Click Extract



Navigate to Program Files
Full path:

Code:

/home/username/.PlayOnLinux/wineprefix/kuara/drive_c/Program Files/

Click the "new folder" icon
Name it kuara
Click Create
Click Extract



Close Archive Manager

PlayOnLinux Configure

Back to PlayOnLinux
Click Configure



Create a Shortcut

Select kuara on the left column

General Tab
Click "Make a new shortcut from this virtual drive"



Click "Browse"



Note: Selecting KUARA[0.0.8].exe would crash Wine

Click Browse



Navigate to the kuara folder you created in Program Files
Select "KUARA[0.0.8].exe"
Click Open



Click Next

Name the Shortcut: KUARA
Click Next



Select "I don't want to make another shortcut"
Click Next



General Tab
Wine version: 4.11-staging



Note: Click the + to download other versions of Wine. Click the down-arrow to select other versions of Wine

Display Tab
Video memory size: Enter the amount of memory your video card/chip uses



Close Configure

Run Kuara

Select KUARA
Click Run



Note: Click Debug to see bugs and errors

Unity 3D Launcher

Adjust:

• Screen resolution
• Graphics Quality
• Monitor

Conclusion:
Kuara ran perfectly with staging version of Wine. For some reason stable Wine 4.0 would not even launch the game. Once in-game, everything ran perfectly without issues on my GeForce GTX 1060. It is a short demo, about 15 minutes long, but its engaging and pretty fun. When its over there is no control to end the game, so I had to Alt+Tab back to PlayOnLinux, go to Configure, Wine Tab and Kill Processes.

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