Hello fellow Linux gamers!

Here you can find informations about ./play.it, a tool building packages for Debian, Arch Linux, Gentoo and any derivative (Ubuntu, Manjaro, Linux Mint, etc.) from your installers for Dungeon Keeper games.
These packages can be installed easily with you favourite packages manager.

Download links and usage instructions can be found on the following pages:
Dungeon Keeper
Dungeon Keeper Ⅱ

We hope youʼll enjoy the ease-of-use provided by this tool as much as we enjoy writing and tweaking it ;)

Here you go for more supported games!

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Salut camarades Linuxiens !

Vous trouverez ici des informations à propos de ./play.it, un outil construisant des paquets pour Debian, Arch Linux, Gentoo ou nʼimporte quelle distribution dérivée de celles-ci (Ubuntu, Manjaro, Linux Mint, etc.) à partir de vos installateurs pour les jeux Dungeon Keeper.
Ces paquets sʼinstallent facilement via votre gestionnaire de paquets habituel.

Les liens de téléchargement et les instructions dʼutilisation se trouvent sur les pages suivantes :
Dungeon Keeper
Dungeon Keeper Ⅱ

Nous espérons que vous apprécierez le confort apporté par cet outil autant que nous apprécions lʼécrire et lʼaméliorer ;)

Pour plus de jeux, rendez-vous par ici !

Update

Dungeon Keeper
Script ported to ./play.it 2, most notable improvements are Arch Linux (and derivatives) support, and language-specific packages built for any supported language. Combination of text and voices using different languages can be used.

Thanks a lot for your help to make this easily playable on my Linux laptop! Noob question...I'd like to redefine the movement keys to WASD instead of arrows (being a laptop, pgup/pgdown etc aren't easy combos). But if I press W, A, S or D for redefining the directions, it won't let me. Other keys do work, or even combinations, but somehow not the ones I want....Am I missing something?

Thanks!

Looks like this is the same issue than reported here: DK 1 Mac- Not able to "define keys"

There are some keys that can’t be used when remapping controls, including W, A and S. (D can be used)
I’m not sure we can do anything about it…

Update

Dungeon Keeper 2

New installer supported:
setup_dungeon_keeper_2_1.7_(22280).exe

Update

Dungeon Keeper 2

Improve performances in hardware rendering with some setups.

Update

Dungeon Keeper Ⅱ

* Fix dependencies list: the game crashes on launch if libGL.so.1 is not available
* Fix loss of campaign progress on prefix reset

Sorry, new to this, but it seems that this script broke with the offline file update last March of 2019 (setup_dungeon_keeper_gold_10.1_(28184).exe). I tried changing the exe file referenced in the script to the current version and running it without checking the checksum, but it doesn't seem to build the deb files. When I run it with "bash -x" to debug, this is the end of the script, but doesn't seem like an error:

Extracting data from game.gog+ local destination
+ destination=/run/user/1000/play.it/dungeon-keeper-1.QdZM7/gamedata
+ mkdir --parents /run/user/1000/play.it/dungeon-keeper-1.QdZM7/gamedata
+ '[' 0 -eq 1 ']'
+ local archive_type
++ get_value ARCHIVE_L10N_TYPE
++ local name
++ local value
++ name=ARCHIVE_L10N_TYPE
+++ eval printf -- %b '"$ARCHIVE_L10N_TYPE"'
++++ printf -- %b rar
++ value=rar
++ printf %s rar
+ archive_type=rar
+ case "$archive_type" in
+ '[' -z '' ']'
++ get_value ARCHIVE_L10N_GOGID
++ local name
++ local value
++ name=ARCHIVE_L10N_GOGID
+++ eval printf -- %b '"$ARCHIVE_L10N_GOGID"'
++++ printf -- %b ''
++ value=
++ printf %s ''
+ '[' -n '' ']'
+ '[' -n '' ']'
+ unar -no-directory -output-directory /run/user/1000/play.it/dungeon-keeper-1.QdZM7/gamedata /run/user/1000/play.it/dungeon-keeper-1.QdZM7/gamedata/app/game.gog

Sometimes changing the name of the file referenced in the script may be enough, but this will not work here as there are big changes between the current installer and the previous one.

A proposed patch brings support for the current installer provided by GOG: Game update: Dungeon Keeper - New archives
Here is a direct download link to the script: play-dungeon-keeper-1.sh

If you give it a try, your feedback would be most welcome ;)

That worked beautifully for me, thanks! The only change I had to make was to use innoextract 1.8 instead of the 1.7 I had installed through apt. Not a big deal but it looks like 1.7 couldn't unpack the new installer from GOG.

Thanks again!

Thanks for the feedback, I will try to include this update in a stable version soon.

Update

Dungeon Keeper

Improve split into multiple packages.

Update

Dungeon Keeper

New supported installer:
• setup_dungeon_keeper_gold_10.1_(28184).exe

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