Photopea in AppImage
Authors: spooknik
Usage
Photopea is available as an AppImage which means 'one app = one file', which you can download and run on your Linux system while you don't need a package manager and nothing gets changed in your system. Awesome!
Photopia Optical Design Software (Photopia) is a commercial optical engineering ray-tracing software program for the design and analysis of non-imaging optical systems. Photopia is written and distributed by LTI Optics, LLC (formerly Lighting Technologies, Inc.) and was first released in 1996. Moreover, Photopea performs them much faster, than Photoshop and GIMP do, as you can see in the last section.
Photopia Acnh
AppImages are single-file applications that run on most Linux distributions. Download an application, make it executable, and run! No need to install. No system libraries or system preferences are altered.Most AppImages run on recent versions of Arch Linux, CentOS, Debian, Fedora, openSUSE, Red Hat, Ubuntu, and other common desktop distributions.
Running Photopea on Linux without installation
Unlike other applications, AppImages do not need to be installed before they can be used. However, they need to be marked as executable before they can be run. This is a Linux security feature.Behold! AppImages are usually not verified by others. Follow these instructions only if you trust the developer of the software. Use at your own risk!
Download the Photopea AppImage and make it executable using your file manager or by entering the following commands in a terminal:
Then double-click the AppImage in the file manager to open it.
Sandboxing Photopea
If you want to restrict what Photopea can do on your system, you can run the AppImage in a sandbox like Firejail. This is entirely optional and currently needs to be configured by the user.
Updating Photopea
If you would like to update to a new version, simply download the new Photopea AppImage.
Integrating AppImages into the system
If you would like to have the executable bit set automatically, and would like to see Photopea and other AppImages integrated into the system (menus, icons, file type associations, etc.), then you may want to check the optional appimaged daemon.
Note for application authors
Thanks for distributing Photopea in the AppImage format for all common Linux distributions. Great! Here are some ideas on how to make it even better.
Pro Tips for further enhancing the Photopea AppImage
Please consider to add update information to the Photopea AppImage and ship a .zsync file so that it can be updated using AppImageUpdate. Tools like appimagetool and linuxdeployqt can do this for you easily.
Improve this entry by shipping an AppStream metainfo file inside the AppImage in the usr/share/metainfo directory. We have an online tool that makes it easy to make one.
The screenshot for Photopea has been automatically taken during a fully automated test. You can specify the URL to a nicer one by shipping an AppStream metainfo file.
If you would like to see a donation link for the application here, please include one in the AppStream data.
IF Comp 1998 1st of 27 XYZZY Awards 1998 Best Writing and Best Story |
XYZZY Awards 1998 Finalist - Best Game, Best NPCs, Best Individual Puzzle, Best Individual NPC, Best Use of Medium |
| Photopia a.k.a. Fotopia | |
|---|---|
| Author(s) | Adam Cadre |
| Publisher(s) | n/a |
| Release date(s) | Oct-1998 |
| Authoring system | Inform |
| Platform(s) | Z-code, Glulx |
| Language(s) | English, Spanish |
| License(s) | Freeware |
| Multimedia | |
| Color effects | optional |
| Graphics | none |
| Sound/Music | none |
| Ratings | |
| Cruelty scale | Merciful |
- 3Versions
- 4Links
How It Begins
(The game asks if you would like color and instructions. Someone suggests: 'Let's tell a story together.')
You are some dude regaining consciousness after a day on the slopes and too much alcohol. It's after midnight. You're in your car and carrying nothing. Your buddy Rob is driving, speeding down Montgomery Boulevard. Perhaps you want Rob to stop or slow down or find out more about those chicks you two hooked up with. But before you can do anything, you see a red light.
Now you're Wendy Mackaye, first girl on the red planet. You are at the landing site in your spacesuit. An orbiter blew up, scattering pieces of itself and stuff for a new colony all over the landscape. Your mission is to find any piece of that equipment that's still functioning.
Notable Features
- There are multiple PCs. The story is told out of order through multiple viewpoints.
- The game is highly linear; it also has many puzzleless sections and relatively easy puzzles in others, encouraging rapid advancement of the plot. It has been the focus of much discussion on linearity and difficulty within IF.
- Some of the game is a story-within-a-story.
- Each section is color-coded. The choice of colors is not arbitrary; each color fits its section in some way.
- The game uses conversation menus when talking to the NPCs.
Versions
Competition Release (color)
- Photopia (Adam Cadre as 'Opal O'Donnell'; 1998; Z-code). IF Comp 1998: 1st place.
- IFID wanted. (Please replace this line with a babel template.)
- Note 1: For a while, Adam Cadre claimed that 'Opal O'Donnell' had assisted him by entering his game into the comp under her name and e-mail address. Supposedly, Adam had previously talked to Opal about borrowing a game element from her ChickenComp game (which she agreed to), and by letting him enter the competition under her name as a pseudonym, he was able to avoid comparisons with his earlier game I-0. But, more recently, Adam revealed that there never was an Opal O'Donnell: it was just a pseudonym. See the Photopia Phaq for full details.
- Note 2: Winner of Best Writing and Best Story, XYZZY Awards 1998. Also, finalist for Best Individual NPC, Best Individual Puzzle, Best NPCs, Best Game, and Best Use of Medium.
Competition Release (black and white)
Z-code version 1.22
MS-DOS version 1.22
PalmOS version 1.22
Spanish translation version 1.23.1E
- Fotopia (translator: José Luis Díaz as 'Zak McKraken'; 14-Dec-1999; Z-code). Spanish.
- IFID wanted. (Please replace this line with a babel template.)
- File: fotopia.z5 (209.00 KB).
Glulx version 2.01
Russian translation
- Фотопия (translator: Всеволод Зубарев; 2-Dec-2013; Z-code 8; Russian).
- Download.
- Play online.
Links
General info
- Photopia at Adam Cadre's site.
- Photopia(archived) - at Baf's Guide.
- Photopia - at IFDB.
- Photopia - at ifwizz interactive fiction (in German).
- Photopia at TV Tropes Wiki.
- Photopia at Wikipedia.
- Photopia - at Home of the Underdogs.
Reviews
- Photopia - at SPAG.
- Photopia - at IF Ratings.
- Review by Jordan Magnuson.
- Review by Paul O'Brian.
- Review by Jenni Polodna.
- Review by Dan Shiovitz.
- Review by Duncan Stevens.
- Review(archived) at Play This Thing! - by Therum.
Spoilers
Photopia Download
- SPAG Specifics analysis by Victor Gijsbers (major spoilers).
Photopia Slideshow