Kuara demo is a clever low-poly action tower-defense real-time-strategy game. You can equip your character with mech-ish weaponry and attack the enemy bases before they attack yours. Wave after wave defend your base, or obliterate theirs with projectile weapons from your three unique mechs.
Follow my step-by-step guide on installing, configuring and optimizing Kuara Demo in Linux with PlayOnLinux.
Note: This guide applies to the itch.io version of Kuara Demo. Other versions may require additional steps.
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Mint 19 64-bit
PlayOnLinux: 4.3.4
Wine: 4.11-staging
Wine Installation
Click Tools
Select "Manage Wine Versions"
Look for the Wine Version: 4.11-staging
Select it
Click the arrow pointing to the right
Click Next
Downloading Wine
Extracting
Installed
Click (amd64) Tab
Select 4.0
Click the arrow pointing to the right
Downloading Wine 64-bit
Installed
Wine 4.11-staging 32-bit and 64-bit is installed, you can close this window
Download Kuara
Save to your Desktop
https://leongdev.itch.io/kuara
PlayOnLinux Setup
Launch PlayOnLinux
Click Install
Click "Install a non-listed program"
Select "Install a program in a new virtual drive"
Click Next
Name the virtual drive: kuara
Click Next
Check all three options:
- Use another version of Wine
- Configure Wine
- Install some libraries
Select Wine 4.11-staging
Click Next
Select "64 bits windows installation"
Click Next
Wine Configuration
Applications Tab
Windows version: Windows 7
Graphics Tab
Check "Automatically capture the mouse in full-screen windows"
Click OK
PlayOnLinux Packages (DLLs, Libraries, Components)
Check the following:
- POL_Install_corefonts
- POL_Install_d3dx10
- POL_Install_d3dx11
- POL_Install_d3dx9
- POL_Install_tahoma
Note: All packages should automatically download and install
Do not click Browse
Kuara demo does not have an installer
Click Cancel
Open Kuara with your Archive Manager
Click Extract
Navigate to Program Files
Full path:
Code:
/home/username/.PlayOnLinux/wineprefix/kuara/drive_c/Program Files/Name it kuara
Click Create
Click Extract
Close Archive Manager
PlayOnLinux Configure
Back to PlayOnLinux
Click Configure
Create a Shortcut
Select kuara on the left column
General Tab
Click "Make a new shortcut from this virtual drive"
Click "Browse"
Note: Selecting KUARA[0.0.8].exe would crash Wine
Click Browse
Navigate to the kuara folder you created in Program Files
Select "KUARA[0.0.8].exe"
Click Open
Click Next
Name the Shortcut: KUARA
Click Next
Select "I don't want to make another shortcut"
Click Next
General Tab
Wine version: 4.11-staging
Note: Click the + to download other versions of Wine. Click the down-arrow to select other versions of Wine
Display Tab
Video memory size: Enter the amount of memory your video card/chip uses
Close Configure
Run Kuara
Select KUARA
Click Run
Note: Click Debug to see bugs and errors
Unity 3D Launcher
Adjust:
- Screen resolution
- Graphics Quality
- Monitor
Conclusion:
Kuara ran perfectly with staging version of Wine. For some reason stable Wine 4.0 would not even launch the game. Once in-game, everything ran perfectly without issues on my GeForce GTX 1060. It is a short demo, about 15 minutes long, but its engaging and pretty fun. When its over there is no control to end the game, so I had to Alt+Tab back to PlayOnLinux, go to Configure, Wine Tab and Kill Processes.
Gameplay Video:
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