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Each year I pose the same question to you:
If you could have anything, change anything, or do anything to or about Linux, what would you do?
And each year, I get back the same answer: Games. Games. Games. It looks like 2D Boy may be answering your calls today.
One of the best selling and best reviewed games on the Wii’s WiiWare platform is a game called World of Goo, made by independent game developer 2D Boy. The game, which challenges you to build structures and solve puzzles using a finite number of “goo” pieces, has been available for Mac and Windows, in addition to the Wii, for some time. A Linux port of the game has also been promised, but, until today, not delivered. As of today, you can now purchase World of Goo for Linux from 2D Boy.
Big name games may still be quite some time coming for Linux, but it seems clear that indie games will be quite common on Linux in the next few years. As Wolfire Games, another independent game studio, figured out, porting your game to Linux gives it a huge amount of attention that it would not otherwise get. This alone leads to far higher sales, even if most of those are not sales for Linux.
We can’t necessarily expect all the top game developers to jump right in, but it looks like the indie game developers that have tested the water found it quite nice and invited the rest in. Surely it can only be so long until everyone hops in?
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Just purchased mine and am using it on Fedora 10. It works well on my mid-level machine. Though it’s a 2-D game, it requires libGLU. Gameplay is pretty smooth except for Chapters that have a lot of moving objects in them.
Game is like a cross of Lemmings and The Incredible Machine with art elements made from the marriage of Dr. Seuss and Tim Burton.
All-in-all, a quality release for a quality game.
Just got it this weekend for linux (deb) and it’s great, finished first chapter.
I already paied for it on the Wii – I just paied for it a second time on Linux: I can play in the train this way, and I support an indie game developper releasing games on my platform of choice!
- Trib’
Love World of Goo. Dig Linux… it’s always nice to see some more effort in the Linux world.
The people that dev Linux could do all of us some good if they would put some effort into intelligent nomenclature.
Every time I’ve attempted a Linux install I have to look up dozens of things that should be named in such a way that they would be intuitive to a user.
For instance… How about “Linux Boot Loader” instead of “Grub” ?
Maybe I’m dense but “Grub” doesn’t mean much to me.
going by the comments on 2DBoy’s blog, one major factor in its popularity is the lack of PITA DRM. couple this and the Linux factor together and we’ve got a winner
manny – Yeah, I have it for Wii and it’s great.
anything linux just gets too much attention on the net. It’s gotta be that we love penguins
and like you said above, it already drove my attention, if it weren’t for this article i would not be aware is also available for my Wii. I will definitely try out the linux and wii versions
looks original, interesting and fun