About

Knockout City was one of my favorite games until the servers shut down in June 2023. Fortunately, the developers released a version of the game that's playable on 3rd party servers. However, the process of setting up the client manually can be quite tedious, and the server binary provided by the developers has no authentication.

After a few months, a community-created launcher for the game was created at kocity.xyz. It included authentication through their own servers with Discord accounts, and the ability to locate and connect several public servers, but the launcher itself was slow and didn't work on Linux at the time. Wanting to learn Qt development at the time, I decided to make my own lightweight, Linux-focused launcher for Knockout City.

My launcher includes the following features:

• Managing the game installation process*
• Browsing public servers and viewing their status
• Adding custom servers with support for simple password-based and kocity.xyz authentication
• Works on Linux!

*Due to high bandwidth, the developers have moved the game download from their own CDN to Steam. Brawl Starter has not yet been updated to download the new version.