Blood is an old game based on the build engine.
The same one the Duke Nukem 3d runs on.
I used to play it online quite a bit.

The source code for the game hasn't been released like with duke but a bunch of guys have recreated the multiplayer version of the game using the darkplaces quake mod engine. They call it transfusion:


http://www.transfusion-game.com/pix.php

I ran into some problems installing it so I thought I would document then here. And it's kind of a cool game that runs well on Kanotix if you have an Nvidia card (seems like most people do), so I don't think there would be any problem installing this on Knoppmyth.

Download the transfusion 1.3 beta:

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfile ... p_id=22136

This download comes with pre-compiled linux engine binaries.
The problem I ran into was that they would crash.
I think this is due to something peculiar about the opengl library. Something about debian in particular, so if you're using another distro as like as not they'll just work for you.
But like I was saying, they crashed:

Loading OpenGL driver libGL.so.1
Received signal 11, exiting...
zsh: segmentation fault ./transfusion-glx

The workaround:

Since transfusion uses the darkplaces quake mod engine http://icculus.org/twilight/darkplaces/ I decided to try compiling it myself. This worked, but here are the details:

Download the source code for the darkplaces engine:

http://icculus.org/twilight/darkplaces/ ... 1beta1.zip

The source itself is in another zip file inside the first one. Unzip that one and cd into the directory, then:

make sdl-release

If you have the dependencies already (I think I had to apt-get install the sdl header files) it should build ok.

Copy the resulting engine file "darkplaces-sdl" to your transfusion game directory. Since this is an unmodified darkplaces engine you have to start it with a funky command line in order to actually play transfusion:

./darkplaces-sdl -game basetf +map bb3 -listen 8

This will start transfusion with the bodies map (one of my favorites).
The -listen 8 bit at the end enables you to have some bots to play in the game.
The single player version of the game is still in development, but multiplayer works and if you're not going to play online you can fire up a few bots after the game loads --just hit the "page up" key. If you hit the key eight times, you'll be playing with all eight bots (I do.)

From what I understand the online game play over the internet is a bit laggy but works fine over a lan. So if you have a couple machines at home working as Knoppmyth system you could have a frag fest too.

Playing other maps on Transfusion:

Transfusion comes with a number of different game arenas. To see what they are, once you're in the game go to the console (from the options menu) and type:

ls maps/*.bsp

To load one of the maps listed just type "map" followed by the name of the map but without the extension.

for example, to play bb3.map you would enter at the console:

map bb3

bb3 is another favorite.