In the next article we are going to take a look at Planet Blupi. It's about a open source strategy adventure game which is free for Gnu / Linux, Windows, and macOS. It was also released under the GPLv3 + license. It is a real-time isometric strategy game similar to Blupimania. Planet Blupi borrows some songs from that game.
The current version of the game, which you can download from its website, has mainly the same look and feel as the original 1997 version, but with some bug fixes. Planet Blupi, also known as Planet Eggbert, is a strategy game and adventures in which action is subtly combined with thought-provoking challenges. Behind the calm and peaceful facade, you will enjoy a fun full of surprises. It is an ideal game for children from 12 to 99 years old.
Blupi lives a quiet life on his planet until a strange meteor crashes in a desert area. Only much later does he realize that his crops are being destroyed by huge spiders. Also, while he's always been a tough and healthy guy, a strange virus has been making him sneeze and cough a lot lately.
In this game the user will need use the planet's resources to save it from invaders. These invaders are a robot and its alien forces. In the game you must help Blupi to build houses, cut trees, transport, grow tomatoes, collect flowers, cure your friends from strange viruses and more.
General characteristics of planet Blupi
- It is an original creation of Epsitec SA and Daniel Roux.
- Since 2017, the game can be downloaded for free from the official Blupi website and we will find it available to play in English, French, German and Italian.
- There are about 30 missions to solveranging from really easy difficulty to completely awesome. But if these are not enough, too will allow the user to create their own missions.
- Mission objectives are varied- Help Blupi explore, cut trees to produce boards and planks, transport various materials, build houses, grow tomatoes, collect flowers, inspect the ground, mine iron ore, devise traps, throw bridges or heal friends.
- It has a basic interface but enough. This is designed to remain as discreet as possible, so that the user can have fun and concentrate on the game. There is no need for long strokes on the screen with the mouse. No time wasted choosing buttons and gadgets on a large screen somewhere out of reach. A small area on the left provides general information about the mission in progress. When you want Blupi to perform a specific action, you just have to click on the correct place on the stage. A palette of available actions will appear in which we will only have to choose one. Actions are smooth and fast.
- The game also offers a limited series of optional exercises to learn to play.
Download and use Planet Blupi game on ubuntu
Planet Blupi is available as AppImage for Ubuntu. The process to run the AppImage files is very simple. First we will have to go to the next download link, to get the latest available version of Planet Blupi in AppImage format.
The name of the downloaded file is'planetblupi.AppImage'. We will have to right click on the downloaded .AppImage file and select Properties. Then you will have to go to the tab Permissions. Once in it, there is no more than check the option "Allow to run the files as a program".
My default location to save downloaded files is the Downloads folder. To launch the game, just open a terminal (Ctrl + Atl + T) and navigate to the location of the downloaded file using the cd command:
cd ~/Descargas
Once in the folder where the downloaded file was saved, we will have to write the following command to run Planet Blupi on Ubuntu:
sudo ./planetblupi.AppImage
It also can run Planet Blupi by double clicking the downloaded file.
It can be obtained more information about this game in the project website or in GitHub page.