Ubuntu Games: Retro Blazer demo

Loved blasting Nazis in Wolfenstein? Hacking apart demons or whatever in Doom? Just plain get nostalgic for running around inside a pseudo-3d environment, gunning down your enemies? Me too!

Retro Blazer is a truly retro FPS based on the Darkplaces game engine. Missed using arrow keys? They got you covered. Retro Blazer just released a demo/alpha test for all us FPS lovers to download and play. It's a lot of fun and so far the alpha release seems very stable. Don't worry about the game crashing to much.

To play Retro Blazer on Ubuntu simply download it, unzip and execute the proper binary (probably darkplaces-linux-x86_64-sdl and ignore all those .exe files...). The game is also available on Windows and OS X.

Get it!

If you are a terminal junky here is a quick how to. First download the zip file.

$ wget http://www.retroblazer.com/RB010912.zip

Unzip that bad boy.

$ unzip RB010912.zip

Clean stuff up... (optional)

$ rm -r ./__MACOSX/ ./RetroBlazer/*.exe

Then execute the right binary.

$ cd RetroBlazer/

$ ./darkplaces-linux-$(uname -m)-sdl

Have fun!

P.S. They ask if you like the alpha you like them on Facebook. Not that I want to encourage any one to use Facebook.... But they don't have a G+ page.

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