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Games
A video game - short game - is an electronic game that features interation and input from the user to generate a feedback. Games can be played on different platforms.
Game Platforms, Distributors and Managers
There are various platforms for managing games. Steam is a gaming a platform for games that distributes games at the same time. Games bought in the Steam shop but also third party games can be added to the game list. It is very popular and cross platform capable.
For Linux-based systems the most used platform is a game manager called Lutris. Lutris can incorporate local games, aswell as games from various big platforms including steam. It is especially popular on Linux because it can manage WINE prefixes and thus is able to easily run Windows games on Linux.
Furthermore Gameyfin is a game manager that can be easily accessed through a web interface. Games can then be downloaded from the website.
Selection of Cross Platform Games
Some online and mostly multiplayer games can be played via the web browser.
A notable amount of this group of games uses the top-level domain .io.
Some examples for these are territorial.io and
slither.io.
Another online game is Massive Decks which is the online take on a similar popular tabletop game.
For Windows there is the popular old-school pinball game 3d Pinball Space Cadet. This game has been reverse engineered and ported to various platforms and operating systems.
Syncing Game Saves Across Systems
By using Syncthing game saves can be synchronized. First set up Syncthing as described in the Syncthing entry. If a system with only user access - like the Steam Deck - is used the user space configuration is recommended. Afterwards move the game saves to the directory set up by Syncthing and create symbolic links to link them back to the original place.
For games on Steam it is possible that they are automatically synchronized by Steam Cloud.
Speedrunning
Speedrunning is the process of trying to finish a video game in shortest amount of time. A very popular site to compare speedruns is speedrun.com. While speedrunning a split tracker is used that keeps track of the time and the times of each section of the game. The following is a list of possible split trackers to use.
- LiveSplit is a popular split tracker available for Windows systems.
- LiveSplit One is a web-based version of LiveSplit.
- urn is a split tracker for Linux based systems.
To set up a split tracker for a specific game usually split files are used. The format needed varies from split tracker to split tracker. Split files in most formats and for many games can be found on splits.io.