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Play AGS games on Linux natively

A topic by advega created 94 days ago Views: 234
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I have seen a number of projects made with Adventure Game Studio which do not offer Linux build, even though the engine does, so I will outline a very simple method of running any AGS game on Linux natively. I have yet to find even a single title that doesn't work flawlessly following these steps:

  1. Go to the Releases section of an AGS Github page and download the latest version (at the top), by looking for a file named ags_[version_number]_linux.tar.gz under Assets below the changelog.
  2. After downloading the archive, unpack it and you will be presented with one folder named data and two files, README and startgame bash script. 
  3. Place all of your game files in the data directory, then run the startgame script in the main AGS folder and enjoy!

Repeat steps 2-3 for any game you wish to play in this way, which is to say do not put several games' files in the sama data dir, rather unpack AGS in a separate location you will you use for that title only.