Each one of the distributions should come with a how_to_play.txt file which you may refer to for instructions. For a quick reference though:
On Window,s the game is started with karitys.exe. The server is started with server_nogui.bat. You don't need the server to test the offline demo, but it needs to be running on the machine you want to connect to if you want to play multiplayer. You can change the client's target IP address for multiplayer by modifying the connect.conf file (there must be no excess spaces or other marks in the file.)
On GNU/Linux, the process is the same, but the files to run are the "run_game.sh" for the client and "run_server.sh" for the server. Run the server from a terminal session. I believe the Linux server distribution has a problem where, if the console window is resized, it may crash, so beware of that. Also I haven't updated the Linux build in a while, nor got to test it on too many systems, so I'm not sure if all the shared libraries play together nicely. I'll try building a new Linux version one of these days.
Edit: I tried the 0.6.2a version downloaded from here on my laptop and on that machine, it did have problems with shared libraries. I've now built and uploaded the newer 0.6.5a version - it may give some better luck.
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Each one of the distributions should come with a how_to_play.txt file which you may refer to for instructions. For a quick reference though:
On Window,s the game is started with karitys.exe. The server is started with server_nogui.bat. You don't need the server to test the offline demo, but it needs to be running on the machine you want to connect to if you want to play multiplayer. You can change the client's target IP address for multiplayer by modifying the connect.conf file (there must be no excess spaces or other marks in the file.)
On GNU/Linux, the process is the same, but the files to run are the "run_game.sh" for the client and "run_server.sh" for the server. Run the server from a terminal session. I believe the Linux server distribution has a problem where, if the console window is resized, it may crash, so beware of that. Also I haven't updated the Linux build in a while, nor got to test it on too many systems, so I'm not sure if all the shared libraries play together nicely. I'll try building a new Linux version one of these days.
Edit: I tried the 0.6.2a version downloaded from here on my laptop and on that machine, it did have problems with shared libraries. I've now built and uploaded the newer 0.6.5a version - it may give some better luck.