Anonycat
Level: Roachling
Rank Points: 10
Registered: 12-12-2007
IP: Logged
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Re: Linux experience (0)
First things first, I unpacked the archive to find a so-called executable that didn't have chmod +x set for anyone. Only a minor inconvenience to fix, but a pretty obvious one.
After opening the game, the one major thing I notice is that the mouse pointer suffers from tremendous latency, taking about 5 seconds to settle in place after I move it anywhere. Moving the mouse pointer outside the ST window will show my normal cursor responding instantly, a clear disagreement from what's going on in the game. The basic result of this is that the game is entirely keyboard-only to me.
Another inconvenience is that after completing a level and returning to the overworld map, the character continuously and automatically moves right (or down if the completed level was on the far right side of the grid). Pressing left doesn't help, only pressing and releasing right, and if I press Enter to go to a level while I'm moving right, the "held right" behavior will continue into the level itself.
As far as sound, that plays, but some sounds work and other sounds don't with seemingly no rhyme or reason. Even with sounds that should play several times in the same level (such as "gem grabbed"), some instances play and others don't and who knows which ones will be which.
At least in that last case I figured the console might receive dumped error messages that would help me figure out what's going on, but it printed nothing at all to STDOUT or STDERR during use.
And finally, the last option on the main menu reads "Exit to Windows". I'd rather not, thank you very much.
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