Gaming on Alpine

Gaming on Alpine is a thing.

Installing games

sudo apk add micro-tetris

Permissions

To make sure your account is in the games group. You could do.

sudo gpasswd -a name games

Log off then relog back on.

List of games available on Alpine Linux

• AdvanceMAME - advancemame -- Arcade Simulator
• Frotz - frotz -- Z machine (Infocom interactive fiction) Interpreter
• FlightGear - flightgear -- Flight Simulator
• GNU Chess - gnuchess -- Play chess against the computer
• Micro Tetris - micro-tetris -- Uses ANSI escape sequences and can fit in embedded devices
• Minetest - minetest -- An Inspired Minecraft game
• OpenTTD - openttd -- A business simulation game
• Xonotic - xonotic -- A FPS arena game

Game related software

• Wine - wine -- It is typically used to play Windows games - You may need to chroot as 32-bit Alpine to use 32 bit Windows games. If you use x86_64, you can only run 64 bit Windows programs.
• OBS Studio - obs-studio -- It is used to live stream a gaming session