World of Goo… for Linux
February 14th 2009 11:47 pm
It seems like the guys at 2D Boy, makers of World of Goo, have ported the game to Linux.
The interview I linked mentions a bit of the struggles involved in porting. PulseAudio was mentioned as an issue which apparently they were able to make work in the end. I wonder why OpenAL wasn’t used though. (Or if it was, why OpenAL was putting the audio through PulseAudio…). Latency isn’t really PulseAudio’s fault IMO, it’s a sound server when a game just needs access to the sound card.
As far as the game itself goes, I already own it on WiiWare so I probably won’t buy it again. But I can tell you it’s definitely worth $20. Like all puzzle games it can be a little frustrating at times. Luckily if you get fed up with a level you have a limited number of skips you can employ, and there are other features to may the game not antagonizing. So, it’s not like the bad old days where you’d work on a level for 20 minutes and then one stray click would cause you to have to start alllll over again.
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I’m very glad this did come out on Linux, it’s lots of fun :D
I really want to support them to encourage Linux work, but since I bought this on wiiware the day it came out and already beat it I can’t really justify it.
Thanks to this wonderful post, I’ve wasted hours on the demo, haha. I’m considering buying it, since I want more Linux games like this.