Toontown Rewritten, available to install as a snap on Ubuntu

about toontown rewriter

In the next article we are going to take a look at Toontown Rewritten. Is about a fan-made recreation of Disney's online MMORPG which was closed. It is now available so that we can install it on Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 18.04 or higher using its corresponding snap package.

Toontown Rewritten (TTR) is a free game open to all. The TTR snap package contains a slightly modified version of the official Toontown Rewritten launcher, which includes Python 3 support. Because this launcher was modified, TTR team does not offer assistance in case something goes wrong with the pitcher.

As we said, Toontown Rewritten is a free revival of Disney's Toontown Online. Toontown is a massively multiplayer online game created for kids, teens and adults of all ages. In it we will have to create our own Toon and join the endless battle against the 'Cogs', who are the bad guys on duty and looking to turn Toontown into their latest business venture.

Some features about ToonTown Rewritten

playing toontown rewritter

Toontown Rewritten is not affiliated with The Walt Disney CompanyInstead, it is created by a dedicated team of volunteers who have devotedly recreated Toontown Online. Anyone can use this game whenever they want, without any restrictions and with access to all the game's functions.

Disney's Toontown Online started in 2003 as first MMO family oriented. Unfortunately for many players, Disney announced the game's closure in August 2013 due to budget cuts and changes in the administration of Disney Online.

This closure did not last an hour. On September 19, 2013, the day of Toontown Online's closure, Toontown Rewritten announced that during the month leading up to closure, a few players known as'Toontown Rewritten Team'they had been working on the possibility of keeping Toontown alive. The seemingly impossible task became a reality. By the end of October, Toontown Rewritten was online and allowing a small number of Alpha testers to access the game.

Toontown Rewritten picked up where Toontown Online left off. The team was not only working to restore the gameplay of Toontown, but also the entire essence of Toontown. The story unfolded, the limited-time events continued, new features were added, and to this day, the game is still actively updated with new content.

Toontown Rewritten grew to almost one and a half million registered players, with thousands of players playing at almost any time of the day.

Install Toontown Rewritten via snap

The snap pack contains a slightly modified version of the official Toontown Rewritten launcher. Modifications include Python 3 support and other things to make it work better with snap, such as loading launcher resources from / usr / share / ttr, etc.

To install this game on Ubuntu 18.04 and higher, you just have to look for it and install the game from the Ubuntu software option:

Installing the Ubuntu software option

If you use Ubuntu 16.04, you need to have snapd installed. If you don't have this daemon, open a terminal (Ctrl + Alt + T) and write in it:

sudo apt-get install snapd

Now already you can install the game typing in the same terminal:

sudo snap install toontown

Once installed, run the application launcher to begin the installation.

ToonTown Rewritten launcher

It has to be said that we must create a free account on the project website. Signing up for an account is simple and free.

Project website

Once the account has been created and validated by email, we will have to accept the terms of use and protocol in order to use this software.

acceptance of license and rules on the web

After everything is accepted, we can write the user credentials that we use to create the account on the project website to start the game.

user login toontown rewritten

uninstall

To eliminate the game, we may well use Ubuntu software option or run the following command in terminal (Ctrl + Alt + T):

sudo snap remove toontown

Toontown Rewritten is completely free to play without making any payment. The game, site and all other forms of content do not include ads, subscriptions, or micro-transactions and the creators do not accept donations.


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