Amnesia Fortnight is a bundle of prototypes by Double-Fine Productions. These prototypes are quickly developed games without any real market limitations.
Basically, develop and have fun.
The bundle includes a classic RPG, an arena boss fight, sandbox robot creator/fighter, space sim, spooky adventure, platform adventure, trick-or-treat adventure and a sandbox music game.



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

Note: This guide applies to the Humble Bundle version of Amnesia Fortnight. Other versions may require additional steps.

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Mint 17 64-bit
PlayOnLinux: 4.2.9
Wine: 1.7.51-staging

Wine Installation

Click Tools
Select "Manage Wine Versions"


Look for the Wine Version: 1.7.51-staging
Note: Try using stable Wine 1.8 and 1.8-staging

Select it
Click the arrow pointing to the right


Note: A new Wine is released every week, always try the newest version as well

Click Next

Downloading Wine


Extracting

Downloading Gecko


Installed


Wine 1.7.51-staging is installed and you can close this window

PlayOnLinux Setup

There is no installer for each prototype, just executables
We need to setup our virtual drive, wine and packages backwards

Launch PlayOnLinux
Click Configure


General Tab
Click "New" on the bottom left


Click Next

Select "32 bits windows installation"
Click Next


Select Wine 1.7.51-staging
Click Next


Name your virtual drive: afortnight
Click Next


Select "afortnight" virtual drive on the left

Wine Tab
Click "Configure Wine"


Applications Tab
Windows version: Windows 7
Click Apply


Graphics Tab
Check "Automatically capture the mouse in full-screen windows"
Check "Emulate a virtual desktop
Desktop size: 1920x1080
Click OK


Note: Enter the same resolution as your Linux desktop in Deskop Size

PlayOnLinux Packages (Libraries, Components, DLL's)

Install Components Tab
Select Microsoft Core Fonts
Click Install

Select d3dx9
Click Install

Select vcrun2008
Click Install

Select vcrun2010
Click Install

Select Tahoma
Click Install


Note: Each Component/Package will automatically download and install

Extracting Prototypes

Double click the first zip


Click "Extract" in Archive Manager


Navigate to "Program Files" in the afortnight virtual drive
Path:

Code:

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

Click Extract
Click Close


Continue extracting each prototype in Program Files


Each prototype has its own individual folder in Program Files


PlayOnLinux Shortcut

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


Select the prototype executable
Example: AFHack.exe
Click Next


Name the shortcut
Example: Hack-n-Slash
Click Next


Select the next prototoype executable
Name the shortcut

List of coinciding exe/games:

• AfCq.exe - Costume Quest
• AFHack.exe - Hack-n-Slash
• AfMana.exe - Happy Song
• Birch.exe - White Birch
• Black.exe - Black Lake
• BRAZEN.exe - Brazen
• Launcher.exe - Autonomous
• Run.bat - Space Base

Once you have all the prototype shortcuts made
Select "I don't want to make another shortcut"
Click Next


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


Close Configure

Launching Prototypes

Select the prototype you want to play
Click Run


Note: Click Debug to see errors and bugs

Conclusion:
Autonomous was the only prototype I had problems with. It ran extremely slow and any settings changed in the Launcher would not apply. I researched for several weeks on Unity 3D, Autonomouse, Wine, Flags and Arguments, but found nothing that would improve the settings.

All the rest of the Prototypes ran perfectly. A few prototypes did not support widescreen resolutions. Each prototype has different controls and a few of them may seem confusing. Remember these are prototypes, not finished games.

Screenshots:

Costume Quest




Hack-n-Slash




Happy Song




White Birch




Black Lake




Brazen




Space Base