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 FilesClick 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
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