Narbacular Drop is a platform/puzzle game where you navigate your princess through portals. This game inspired the well-known game: Portal
Use your portals to access hard-to-reach areas and cleverly imobilize traps.
Follow my step-by-step guide on installing, configuring and optimizing Narbacular Drop in Linux with PlayOnLinux.
Tips & Specs:
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Mint 18.3 64-bit
PlayOnLinux: 4.2.12
Wine: 2.0.3
Wine Installation
Click Tools
Select "Manage Wine Versions"
Look for the Wine Version: 2.0.3
Click the arrow pointing to the right
Click Next
Downloading Wine
Extracting
Downloading Gecko
Installed
Wine 2.0.3 is installed and you can close this window
Download Narbacular Drop
Its not quite as easy to download as you would think.
If you try to download the installer from DigiPen's website it isn't the correct file because its only 1 MB. The full game is 21 MB's
You can try these link, but Google has blacklisted some of the NarbacularDrop.exe downloads.
I downloaded the one from GamersHell and nuclearmonkeysoftware and it worked fine.
Nuclear Monkey:
http://www.nuclearmonkeysoftware.com/downloads/narbacular_drop.exe
Cnet:
http://download.cnet.com/Narbacular-Drop/3000-2097_4-10573040.html
GamersHell:
http://www.gamershell.com/download_17513.shtml
PlayOnLinux Setup
Launch PlayOnLinux
Click Install
Click "Install a non-listed program"
Click Next
Select "Install a program in a new virtual drive"
Click Next
Name the virtual drive: narbaculardrop
Click Next
Check all three options:
- Use another version of Wine
- Configure Wine
- Install some libraries
Select Wine 2.0.3
Click Next
Select "32 bits windows installation"
Click Next
Wine Configuration
Applications Tab
Windows version: Windows XP
Graphics Tab
Check "Automatically capture the mouse in full-screen windows"
Check "Emulate a virtual drive"
Desktop size: 640x480
Click OK
PlayOnLinux Packages (Libraries, Components, DLL's)
Check the following:
- POL_Install_corefonts
- POL_Install_d3dx9
Installing Narbacular Drop
Click Browse
Select "Narbacular_Drop.exe"
Click Open
Click Next again
Click Next
Check "I accept the agreement"
Click Next
Click Next
Click Next again...
Uncheck "Create a desktop icon"
Click Next
Click Install
Uncheck "View Read Me.txt"
Click Finish
PlayOnLinux Shortcut
Select "Narbacular Drop.exe"
Click Next
Shortcut name: Narbacular Drop
Click Next
Select "I don't want to make another shortcut"
Click Next
PlayOnLinux Configure
Select "Narbacular Drop"
Click Configure
General Tab
Wine version: 2.0.3
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
Select Narbacular Drop
Click Run
Note: Click debug to see bugs and errors
Adjust Resolution
Click Options (may have to click multiple times to find the "sweet spot")
Check "Anti-Aliasing"
Uncheck "Windowed"
Set Resolution to 1024x768
Click OK (may have to click multiple times)
Click Quit
Back to PlayOnLinux
Click Configure
Click Wine Tab
Click Configure Wine
Graphics Tab
Change Desktop size to: 1024x768
Click OK
Now you can play windowed at resolution 1024x768 with Virtual Desktop on
Or you can play fullscreen at resolution 1024x768 with the virtual Desktop off
Run Nabacular Drop again
Conclusion:
The only bug I experienced was clicking the menu items. Sometimes I had to click a bunch of times for the button to initiate. Once you are in game the mouse-look works and "Q" & "E" allows you to add or remove portals. Sometimes the mouse left-click/right-click doesn't work for portals properly and you have to mess around clicking but they eventually work.
Screenshots: