Gaming on Alpine

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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
  • 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
  • OBS Studio - obs-studio -- It is used to live stream a gaming session