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

Click Next


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

Click Next


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: