October 16, 2008 at 8:56 pm · Filed under Tumbled
Interview: Minor Studios talks about Atmosphir
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Atmosphir – Jumpstart
October 8, 2008 at 7:41 pm · Filed under Tumbled
The latest episode of Jumpstart – the vidcast about Atmosphir from the guys at Minor Studios – has been released. They detail some great levels (I’ve been checking them out myself) and also thank me for my review on Linux Haxor, cheers guys! You even pronounced Jalada right!
Atmosphir Game Review
October 7, 2008 at 9:16 pm · Filed under Tumbled
Forgot to post this, this was a post I did as a guest author on Linux Haxor, a great blog about all things Linux.
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Getting Atmosphir Beta to work on 64-bit Ubuntu (Intrepid Ibex)
October 3, 2008 at 3:11 pm · Filed under Linux, gaming
Today I got an Atmosphir beta invite, and I decided to try installing it on Linux first, before Mac or Windows. There were a couple of things I needed to do in order to get it to work correctly on my 64-bit Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex box.
- Firstly, I installed Atmosphir to /opt/Atmosphir. I don’t know if this had an effect on the problems I had, but anyway.
- After installing, I tried to run it, and got the following error:
game: error while loading shared libraries: libpq.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
This can be fixed by downloading the 32-bit package of libpq5 (much the same way as I did for Flash Player 10) and extracting it and copying the file libpq.so.5 into the Atmosphir directory. At the bottom of this post I have provided a copy of this file (and the file in the next step) for those that don’t want to go through the faff of downloading the .deb and extracting it themselves.
- I then got another error:
game: error while loading shared libraries: libgnutls.so.26: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
The same method applies, download the 32-bit package of libgnutls26 and extract the libgnutls.so.26 file, again I’ve provided it in the archive at the bottom of this post.
- Success! The game now starts. However I was getting some sound related errors, and there was no sound:
ALSA lib ../../src/conf.c:2700:(snd_config_hooks_call) Cannot open shared library /usr/lib/alsa-lib/libasound_module_conf_pulse.so ALSA lib ../../../src/pcm/pcm.c:2196:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM default Couldn't open audio: No available audio device
After a quick bit of googling, I discovered people get the same error when trying to use Skype with PulseAudio, and there is a quick fix solution available which also does the trick for Atmosphir. Great!
Hope this helps anyone that has any problems with the new Atmosphir Beta. I’ve already played it a bit, and I think it’s a great idea and seems great fun to play, and works brilliantly on Linux which is awesome to see. If you don’t have a beta invite yet, head on over to the Atmosphir site and fill in the registration form, they are giving out beta invites over the next couple of weeks, so you might get lucky!