Fedora Games Lab question

HNY to all.

I have some very bored kids, who’ve never played computer games. But due to stressful circumstances at the moment I thought I’d let them have a small venture into some low adrenalin games (thinking tetris, maybe mario kart type stuff).

I found the Games Lab spin of Fedora, NICE! But I can’t stand the XFCE environment. So I thought I’d ask:

  1. is there a way to get it with gnome?

  2. if not, is there a way to install the full suite into a pre-existing Fedora WS Gnome install?

thanks

Many, if not most, of the available games can be installed on a fedora Workstation installation (gnome).

The gnome software manager makes it easy from the gui to install the games.

You also could install the Games Lab into a VM under libvirt KVM/QEMU and have all the games there available without having to install each one separately.

If you want to manually install them, the list of games from the games spin is in their kickstart file

Edit:

List of Packages from the Kickstart

joystick-support
armacycles-ad
asc
asc-music
astromenace
boswars
bzflag
crossfire-client
extremetuxracer
freeciv
freecol
freedoom
freedroidrpg
frozen-bubble
lincity-ng
megaglest
nethack-vultures
netpanzer
neverball
nogravity
scorched3d
supertuxkart
ultimatestunts
warzone2100
wesnoth
warmux
xmoto
abe
blobwars
bombardier
cdogs-sdl
clanbomber
colossus
foobillard
glaxium
gnubg
gnugo
haxima
kcheckers
knights
lbrickbuster2
lordsawar
nethack
openlierox
pachi
pioneers
quarry
rogue
solarwolf
sopwith
stormbaancoureur
ularn
xblast
auriferous
alienblaster
powermanga
trackballs
trackballs-music
ballbuster
CriticalMass
dd2
KoboDeluxe
Maelstrom
methane
njam
shippy
tecnoballz
wordwarvi
xgalaxy
amoebax
crack-attack
gemdropx
gweled
enigma
pingus
mirrormagic
pipenightdreams
pipepanic
pychess
rocksndiamonds
vodovod
PySolFC
planets
tuxpaint
tuxpaint-stamps
tuxtype2
taxipilot
bsd-games
games-menus

I’ll take that as 2 x No then! :slight_smile:

Nevermind, I assumed it was only available as an XFCE install in one go.

I’ll go with Gnome then pull some in, not sure I have time to check them all out installing manually though.

I had an old Vaio (Vista) laptop which just collapsed eventually. I managed to just about get Mario Kart running on there. I assume games like that only work with windows? I heard you can use Wine, but I haven’t had much luck with Wine in past attempts! I may try that again some time

There’s SuperTuxKart (included in the package list for the Games Lab), if you want a Linux-native game in that style…

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yes thanks, that’s about the only game I found so far in the games lab that seems playable to me :smiley:

If you open gnome software it should show something like this.

A click on the ‘play’ button leads to many different games that are native on linux.

You can also install the ‘bottles’ app which provides the ability to create a bottle then within that bottle install many different windows apps/games. Bottles is an easy to use front end for wine.

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Never seen that play button, will have a look thanks !

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