esports-for-engineers

Let's work together to maintain some of the best old engineering simulation games.

This project provides a linux installer containing a free, award-winning sim or strategy game for each day of the week. The games are organized into a weeklong mindsports decathlon, with a mechanism for scoring each day and saving the user's game files. Some slides describing the game package are here. There is also a self-study class syllabus for learning the games.

To play the games:

1. install Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
2. download and unpack the game package, then check file integrity by running sha256sum on the download and comparing the output to "44aa206e8b6fd0317502d161f8baed413855ea1354a1c624c6689d03529c76f6 esports-for-engineers2204LTS.tar.gz"
3. use sudo command and run scripts on command line per instructions to install needed ubuntu packages
4. run the launcher script

For more information visit the Mastodon game forum.

Note: The game tar file is a clone of this repo with binaries, documentation pdfs, etc. added to the directory tree. A separate binaries-included clone file is needed because github does not host large binaries. Generating binaries from source is difficult, as this is old MS Windows source code which requires a legacy development environment for compilation.

Since this project runs Microsoft Windows programs on Linux, both Windows and Linux development expertise is needed.

See the issues tab for ways you can contribute to this project.