Oolite, a 3D space combat and commerce simulator

about Oolite

In the next article we are going to take a look at Oolite. This is a first person trading and combat game. It's free, open source, and single player. We will find it available for Gnu / Linux, for MacOS and also for Windows. East game space trade and combat is heavily inspired by the classic Elite released in 1984.

In Oolite, the player is the pilot of a spaceship, capable of making trips to other nearby planetary systems using wormholes generated by his own ship's engines. On his way he will meet other spaceships against which fight using the ship's main weapons, which are lasers and missiles.

During the game, each system will contain only one inhabited planet, with an orbiting space station. Players choose the destination system based on the name of their planet. While navigating through space, players can create wormholes to exit almost anywhere within a system, assuming the ship's engines have enough fuel to do so. With them, the ships always enter the system again, at a considerable distance from the target planet. The player must pilot his ship through space, from the entry point to the station.

point pickup

During this stage of the journey, the player can find other ships with which it is possible to initiate combat. The main armaments of the spaceships in Oolite are lasers and missiles. Most of the fighting is aerial combat, being immune to the effects of inertia and gravity.

Oolite Station

The universe in which Oolite moves is infinite. In this universe, users will find a great wealth in terms of planets and other stellar objects. You can also find numerous expansion packs available, there are over five hundred of these packs released for Oolite. These add additional ships, tremendous light effects, weapons, planets, galactic maps, and new graphics. These elements will undoubtedly extend the life of the game on users' computers.

This game was released under the GNU GPL version 2 license and requires at least a 1 GHz processor, 1 GB of RAM, and an Open GL compatible graphics card. Oolite is a first person space simulator available in English.

entrance to the base

Install the trade and combat game Oolite on Ubuntu

game download page

To get hold of this game we will have to download the latest version available for Gnu / Linux. In the project website, we will find a .tgz file available. Inside this file we will find the necessary installer.

In this example, the name of the downloaded file is'oolite-1.88.linux-x86_64.tgz', although this name will change depending on the version of the game. Finished the download, only we will have to right click on that file and select "Extract here”To access the content of the compressed file.

Unzipped the file, let's open a terminal (Ctrl + Alt + T) and move to the folder in which we have saved the file that goes inside the compressed package that we download from the game's website.

cd Descargas

Once in the appropriate folder, we are going to write the following command to change file permission:

File permissions

sudo chmod +x oolite-1.88.linux-x86_64.run

After this, we are going to run this other command to launch the installation from terminal:

oodolite installation

sudo ./oolite-1.88.linux-x86_64.run

During the installation process, the program will ask us «Install Oolite system wide or in your home directory? [S / h]«. If we write "s”And we press the key Intro The system-wide installation. This is the option I use for this example. It also can install to user home folder pressing the key "h".

After a successful installation of Oolite, we can now Start the game with the following command:

oolite menu

oolite

uninstall

We will be able uninstall Oolite by running the following command in the terminal:

Uninstall Oolite

sudo /opt/Oolite/uninstall

It can be obtained more information about this game and its extension packs in the project website.


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