Speed ​​Dreams, a racing game available on Flathub

In the next article we are going to take a look at Speed ​​Dreams. It's about a 3d racing game open source and free that we can find available on Flathub. This will make it much easier for us to install our Ubuntu.

It is a car racing simulator fork torcs. It aims to implement exciting new features, vehicles, tracks and AI opponents to make the game more fun for the player. The racing simulation game will present us with a precise driving behavior, with multiple physics engines available.

Es compatible with input devices such as keyboards and mice, joypads, joysticks, racing wheels and pedals. Due to its driving behavior and physics, the game can be quite difficult to play with a keyboard and mouse, especially for novice gamers.

While the Speed ​​Dreams website doesn't say much about the game, its Wikipedia contains a lot of information about it. So if you want to know more about this game, take a look. It must also be said that the Wikipedia page does not contain some recent changes to the game. There is a wiki page from Speed ​​Dreams at Sourceforge where we can get more information.

No Speed ​​Dreams binaries for Gnu / Linux available for download. For this reason, Gnu / Linux users have relied on third-party repositories to install the game so far. For example, on Ubuntu, the game could be installed from a PPA or PlayDeb. However, the PPA has not been updated since 2012, while PlayDeb appears to be abandoned. But thanks to Flathub, the users of this platform, now we can easily install Speed ​​Dreams version 2.2.2 RC2 on our Ubuntu, released in March 2018.

General characteristics of Speed ​​Dreams

• Precise driving. Uses different physics engines.
• Can be played with different input devices.
• We will have the possibility to use several different race modes. From a simple practice session to a full pilot race.
• The game includes multiple customizable racing modes. These will attempt to reproduce real types of racing, including complex events such as championships or endurance races.
• In the game, we will find a good variety of vehicles or vehicle classes (1936 Grand Prix, Supercars, Long Day Series GT1, etc.).
• We will also find a good variety of tracks or categories of tracks.
• All the weather conditions we can customize them. The dome of the sky can be configured as dynamic, that is, simulate the succession of day and night and the movement of celestial bodies. The simulation of the weather affects the physics, which with the appropriate corrections will affect the grip of the vehicles. It can also affect graphics, with animated cloud layers and, if necessary, a 2D overlay of rain particles.
• We will be able compete with various AI bots different.
• This game will give us the possibility of play up to 4 users in local multiplayer mode, with the «split screen». During the race, regions can be dynamically created, deleted, and arranged in several different layouts. Speed ​​Dreams supports up to 4 players competing simultaneously in the same race, using the same equipment, as well as online play.

Install Speed ​​Dreams on Ubuntu

In Gnu / Linux, we will only have to follow the flatpak quick setup, including adding the repository necessary to be able to use it in our Ubuntu system. Then we just have to visit the Speed ​​Dreams Flathub page and click on the button INSTALL. This will cause the necessary file to be downloaded that we can open with the software installation.

We will also be able to search for Speed ​​Dreams in Ubuntu software option. Before we will have to add the Flathub repository.

If we have added the Flatpak repository, another option for installing the game will be write this command in terminal (Ctrl + Alt + T):

flatpak install flathub org.speed_dreams.SpeedDreams

For more information about this game, we can consult the project website.