Quake 3 ~ ioquake3

I’ve covered DOOM in one of my previous blogs. In this blog I am going to cover how to get Quake 3 arena running. The source port I am going to use is ioquake3. Unlike DOOM, there is no entirely free version of Quake 3. Quake 3 requires .pak files, which can found in the game files after purchasing Quake 3 on steam.

The following dependencies are required.

• build-essential
• make
• git
• libsdl2-2.0-0

First to download the ioquake3 via

git clone https://github.com/ioquake/ioq3

cd into ioq3 and execute make

Once the compilation process has finished, then cd into build/release-linux-x86_64

Finally execute ./ioquake3.x86_64

Quake on!