Leikr is a free and open source video game making system for Linux, Windows and MacOS. It is written in Java using the Mini2DX game framework and released under Apache License 2.0. Using Leikr you can make video games with Groovy programming language. Here you can create up to 128 sprites in the sizes of 8×8, 16×16, 32×32 and even 64×64. It also support external artwork in png, jpg or bmp file formats and wav, mp3 or ogg files to play sfx and music.
Install Leikr on Ubuntu linux
Leikr is available as a flatpak package from flathub for Linux system. First install flatpak and restart your system. After that open terminal command-line app using ctrl+alt+t keys and run below Leikr flatpak installation command.
flatpak install flathub io.github.torbuntu.Leikr
After the installation run Leikr using
flatpak run io.github.torbuntu.Leikr
You can also uninstall Leikr Game System using this command.
sudo flatpak uninstall io.github.torbuntu.Leikr
That’s it.