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Aquaria => Support => Topic started by: Alec on December 14, 2009, 05:52:32 pm
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A new port of Aquaria has been completed by the prolific Linux codemaster Ryan C. Gordon (http://icculus.org). :)
You can download it here and play it until January 13th: http://icculus.org/aquaria/aquaria-beta-installer.run
The installer has beta test details (bug tracker, discussion list) in its README.
Thanks in advance for your help and a huuuge thank you to Ryan! 8)
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What the entire game for free?!
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Thanks a lot! I will try the hell out of it. :)
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Tried to run it earlier but it just segfaults after showing the loading bar at startup. Still, great news. I'm sure Ryan will have a fix soon.
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Free...? What.
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My understanding is that it will be free to test until January 13th, sort of like a time-limited trial, after which point it will cease working?
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Hi!
I was living in the hope of seeing this before Christmas :) ;D Hurray!
I'll try to provide as much feedback as possible.
Thanks Nava, Alec and Ryan.
Best regards. ;)
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Thanks Nava, Alec and Ryan.
:o
I did nothing...
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So modest... ;)
[EDIT]: Good point, Alpha. Alec's gone through a rough patch or two. A kind soul nearby does wonders for the morale. ^-^
[EDIT2]: ... however, this thread's about Linux, not happiness (though I know some that confuse the two). :)
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You did something... you kept Alec happy. =3
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You did something... you kept Alec happy. =3
No small task?
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:p
I meant I was not involved in Aquaria Linux in any way....
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will it be possible to support resolutions smaller than 800x600?
works fine on my netbook in winxp, but would be more awesome if the linux version did so too
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Hrm... it should be able to already? You can probably just edit the config file... (forget what its called at the moment unfortunately)
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I run Gentoo Linux as my primary OS and this is my experience so far:
* GREAT installer: simple, fast, and gets the job done.
* Game launches without linking errors... always love that.
* At launch I was not asked for any information, the game just defaulted to full screen, native resolution. This should have been fine-- if I didn't run NVidia TwinView... Sadly for now I am running it in a window at the only other resolution available to me: 800x600 (this could be because of my X cfg file... haven't really looked at the resolutions I've added to my card in there... haha)
* Mods Page: all the images are white... it's a beta. lol
* Game Play: I soon noticed that I can't alt+tab out of the game to continue writing this review... should add that.
* Game Play: Fast. Smooth. Beautiful. All graphical features from original game work flawlessly. (shader effects, fades, cut scenes, animations, etc)
* Game Play: All particle systems work perfectly, and it looks like all NPCs also execute their scripts correctly.
* Game Play: Audio is great, noticed a console warning about an extension not being supported so it'll "use more RAM."
* Game: Uses a pretty consistent 30% of my 2gb of ram, from launch into game play (~615mb). IOW: Game should play perfectly on a 768mb system.
* Saving/Loading: Copied my saves from Windows, they load great-- screen shots (though, it seems to center them differently?) and all! :D
* There was one more thing... that I can't remember...
Overall, GREAT JOB! Literally, the first native Linux game I've installed that didn't do something retarded, like... not even run.
P.S. I'm sure the resolution and the mods bugs are known, so I won't bother reporting them... though, when the final version is released I'll definitely voice any final changes needed to the bugzilla linked in the included text file.
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Hi,
:p
I meant I was not involved in Aquaria Linux in any way....
No small task?
;) Human resource is always the projects' hardest part, ;D
Have a nice Christmas time everyone.
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OH! I remember the one thing I forgot!
* Controls: flawless. I use a combination of mouse and keyboard to play... I also use the EVDEV driver for both, and Aquaria Linux uses them perfectly... I can bash as many keys, and click as many buttons as I want and it works just as well as I should expect.
Thanks! :D
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BTW: The only reason I know about Aquaria is because of Linux Gamers... http://www.linux-gamers.net/modules/news/article.php?storyid=2234
I noticed that since the beta was released there haven't been any new articles on Linux sites (that I browse) about it!!! This should be huge news to the entire Linux community... although, obviously this release is beta, so it's definitely understandable if the PR is awaiting play test results. I've put a bit of time into it and so far have not found anything outside of what I've seen in the Windows version: flawlessness. :P
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Hello,
didn't find where to report bugs, so posting there :)
had a problem with overlapping music. When fighting mithral boss and loosing after
last save auto load music stayed the same, then after winning fight music is still
playing and overlapping the speech (almoust imposible to hear).
Overall wonderfull game :)
i just hope it is possible to use openbeta save files in final version.
P.S. Happy new year !!! :)
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Happy new year!
P.S. There's a bug tracker up here: http://bugzilla.icculus.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=aquaria
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Late, but: Happy New Year, too!
Just has the question every linux users will have sooner or later:
- Ryan, have you got an ETA, even roughly, about Aquaria (first ;P ) Linux release?
Thanks for reading and good luck for your next projects.
EDIT: Can I already buy a copy and use the key for the linux beta releases?
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I installed on Mandriva linux 2010.0. Installation wors very fine, but i wos not able to run this game and i think the reason was not installed acceleration driver for NVidia GF9600GT. Now i have problem with this update system and will reinstall it, maybe then i try to install GF9600GT driver and the game will work fine. In past i have installed this driver with no problems i try out many of games.
I have one qustion: "I have bought this game on steam - will i able to download lunux client for this great game and play full version ??"
Sorry for my english
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We generally don't transfer licenses in any direction.. the reason being that there are so many different parties involved. (Bit-Blot handles Windows, Valve handles Steam, Ambrosia handles Mac)
In terms of release, I think Ryan's going to do one more beta. So no set date yet, but we're getting there. :)
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Thank's for quick answer. I'm waiting to try out the third beta.
I will report the steam archiwment "Boom Shrimp" bug -> read the steam forum too. <- i see u working on it :-)
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Beta3 worked fine on Mandiva Linux 2010 64bit, Intel Core 2 Duo, GF9600GT, 4GB Ram, newest drivers - graphics a little bit slower on linux as on WinXP. I have update problems with Mandriva i future i will try OpenSUSE.