an-anime-game-launcher/README.md

Please don't link to this repository

We understand you want to help people run An Anime Game on Linux. The issue is, the more people know of the tools involved in it, the higher the chances The Anime Game Company will notice them, and then fix the flaws that let us do the needful.

While sharing in your self-managed chat services and through private messaging is fine, we humbly ask that you refrain from publically sharing links to this repository, or to any of the tools involved.

Or share them and ruin it for the dozens of Linux players. It's up to you.

If you're going to share it anyway

Do what you must, but we would respectfully request that you try to label the game as "An Anime Game" instead of the actual name of the game, to avoid search engine parsing.

Download

Source	Link
AppImage	Releases page
AUR	an-anime-game-launcher-bin
Pacstall	an-anime-game-launcher-bin (?)

Flatpak support

To install the launcher via flatpak you will first have to make sure that you have flathub's remote installed

flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo

After installing flathub's remote you install launcher.moe's remote

flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists launcher.moe https://gol.launcher.moe/gol.launcher.moe.flatpakrepo

Now the only thing remaining is to install the launcher

flatpak install launcher.moe com.gitlab.KRypt0n_.an-anime-game-launcher

Some additional configuration is possible when using the flatpak. For info about this, see this page

Chinese version

To use Chinese version of the game make sure that you have

server: cn

field in your config.yaml file (settings -> launcher folder). If your system uses the Chinese language - then it should be selected automatically. If not, then close the launcher, replace server: global with server: cn, and run it again. After that launcher will download the Chinese version of the game and the patch

Status

Game version	Launcher version	Patch version
2.5.0	2.2.1	2.5.0 stable ✅

We have our own An Anime Game discord server where you can ask any questions

Usage statistics

This is our current usage statistics. You can find older ones here

Our discord server — 386 members

Requirements

To work this launcher requires

Name	Description
webkit2gtk	To run Neutralino apps
libayatana-appindicator3-1	To run Neutralino apps
unzip	To unpack zip archives (DXVK / Wine)
tar	To unpack tar archives (DXVK / Wine)
git	To check for new versions of the launcher
curl	For archive downloads: game, voice data, runners and so on
xdelta3	To apply the patch to the game (compiled with LZMA support)
cabextract	To install fonts to the Wine prefix
libnotify	To send system notifications

Install

apt

sudo apt install unzip tar git curl xdelta3 cabextract libnotify-bin libayatana-appindicator3-1

pacman

sudo pacman -Syu unzip tar git curl xdelta3 cabextract libnotify

dnf

sudo dnf install unzip tar git curl xdelta cabextract libnotify webkit2gtk3

And libayatana-appindicator package with its requirements (since they haven't been pushed to the fedora's repos):

Name	Link
libayatana-ido	rpm / details
libayatana-indicator	rpm / details
libayatana-appindicator	rpm / details

Install them in the same order as in the table above using the command:

sudo rpm -i <path to rpm file>

Additional requirements

Name	Description
MangoHud	To use MangoHud
vkBasalt	To use shaders
GameMode	To use GameMode (performance optimization)

These requirements can't be easily installed so you should do it manually

They're required only for some specific functions

Development

Download source

git clone https://gitlab.com/KRypt0n_/an-anime-game-launcher
cd an-anime-game-launcher
yarn
yarn neu update

Run

yarn dev

Build

yarn build

Bundle to AppImage

yarn bundle

Roadmap

This is our current roadmap goals. You can find older ones here

➤ To 3.0.0 release

Features

• Use LauncherLib.getGameVersion function instead of the config.json's version property (deprecated due to the new core functions)
• Fix button flickering at start when the launcher's state updates (fixed due to the new framework usage and proper state updating)
• Add downloading pause button (2.0.0 release)
• Move launcher on Empathize (2.1.0)
• Make notifications translations (2.1.0)
• ToS Violation Window (2.1.0)
• Add latest.log file generation (2.1.2)
• Add an option to show terminal with the wine's log of the game (7375c743, released in 2.1.3)
• Add analytics window (e0a09323, released in 2.2.0)
• Add Chinese game's version support (due to changes in the Krock's patch) (75f2ad66, released in 2.2.0)
• Add Patch category to the settings menu (07b32ada, 8a29d4a5, released in 2.2.1)
• Implement manual config flushing functionality from the Empathize's API
• Game statistics window
• Dark progress bar design
• Changelog window
• Screenshots explorer