Running on Linux

[Faugn]

After installing the game with Proton, it does not start. It can however be run natively using java.

Go to the install directory, create a launcher, desktop entry, as well as App ID file:

$ echo 'java -jar tametsi.exe' >tametsi.sh
$ chmod +x tametsi.sh
$ printf 709920 >steam_appid.txt
$ printf "[Desktop Entry]\nExec=%s\nName=Tametsi\nType=Application\n" $PWD/tametsi.sh >tametsi.desktop

Then use "Games / Add a Non-Steam Game to My Library" to register the desktop entry.

[Tudwell]

Nice job finding a way to make this work! The game is written in pure Java, and very thinly wrapped using a program called Launch4j. Games have to be self-contained on Steam, so it can't be a bare jar file; it has to be an executable tying the jar file to an included JRE.

Something very similar to this also probably works on macOS. I don't use either Linux or macOS enough to be comfortable supporting official versions for those platforms, but I'm really glad you decided to share.

[Belisama]

It runs fine for me on Steamplay (Mint 18.2 Nvidia gpu). Really enjoying it so far!

[matj1]

Originally posted by Tudwell:

The game is written in pure Java, and very thinly wrapped using a program called Launch4j. Games have to be self-contained on Steam, so it can't be a bare jar file; it has to be an executable tying the jar file to an included JRE.

Please, wrap this for Linux and macOS and release that so it runs on these systems too without modifications.

[Tudwell]

@matj1 I don't have a computer with macOS, so I can't even try that; for Linux, I've tried a few things and kept encountering problems.

Have you tried the game through Steamplay? I understand if you don't own the game, and don't want to purchase it just to see whether it works.

[matj1]

Originally posted by Tudwell:

@matj1 I don't have a computer with macOS, so I can't even try that; for Linux, I've tried a few things and kept encountering problems.

Have you tried the game through Steamplay? I understand if you don't own the game, and don't want to purchase it just to see whether it works.

I thought that, if it's a thin wrapper, it wouldn't be hard to wrap it and once it would work, it could stay like that without any change. But you don't have to do it, especially if you encounter problems.

I think playing it throught SteamPlay would be OK but it has extra steps, there is a compatibility layer above a Java virtual machine, which can run natively on Linux.

[olejorgenb]

Works for me when forcing proton to 3.7-8 (found the hint in another thread)

[Krigalishnikov]

Works for me using proton experimental, although it uses 60% of my 3060 GPU.