Eschalon: Book 2 now available for Linux

Artificial Intelligence · 2010-05-26 16:18:02

Basilisk games have just announced today the release of Eschalon: Book 2 for mac and linux. The windows version was released some days earlier.

Homepage: http://basiliskgames.com/eschalon-book-ii
Demo: http://basiliskgames.com/downloads
AUR (both demo & full): http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=37509

Rumor · 2010-05-27 15:48:43

Artificial Intelligence wrote:

Basilisk games have just announced today the release of Eschalon: Book 2 for mac and linux. The windows version was released some days earlier.
Homepage: http://basiliskgames.com/eschalon-book-ii
Demo: http://basiliskgames.com/downloads
AUR (both demo & full): http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=37509

Thanks for the head's up, AI. I played book 1 and have been waiting since the release of book 2 for an announcement of the availability of the Linux client. Now to go spend some money :-)

Awebb · 2010-05-27 20:26:34

How to distribute a commercial game via AUR? How does it work? I can't get a clue from looking at the PKBUILD.

Ashren · 2010-05-27 20:47:31

Awebb: If you enter a registration key the demo becomes the full version.

Staerseus · 2010-05-27 21:48:28

does the instalation from AUR works for you? It tells me some error about non-existing archive and/or missing URL of it....

Awebb · 2010-05-27 21:58:15

Ashren wrote:

Awebb: If you enter a registration key the demo becomes the full version.

Suddenly this makes sense

Artificial Intelligence · 2010-05-28 03:10:49

Staerseus wrote:

does the instalation from AUR works for you? It tells me some error about non-existing archive and/or missing URL of it....

You need to download the game seperately and place it in the same directory. It's not possible to url it, the game is hosted on fileshare sites.

sand_man · 2010-05-28 03:30:34

Kind of reminds me of Ultima VII

Snakeye · 2010-05-28 15:18:33

Bought my copy.

Ashren · 2010-05-28 16:44:16

Yep, bought it too. Can't resist a native linux CRPG.

Bralkein · 2010-05-28 21:19:28

I liked book 1 and I'm more than happy to fork out for book 2. Always keen to support games for Linux!

Staerseus · 2010-05-28 21:35:10

Artificial Intelligence wrote:

Staerseus wrote:
does the instalation from AUR works for you? It tells me some error about non-existing archive and/or missing URL of it....
You need to download the game seperately and place it in the same directory. It's not possible to url it, the game is hosted on fileshare sites.

Thank you very much, I'll give it a try tomorow :-)

mack · 2010-05-29 17:09:31

Hey, I just installed Eschalon Book 2 myself.

Last edited by mack (2012-11-08 14:49:10)

Gen2ly · 2010-05-30 03:06:29

This looks pretty cool. Will have to make some time on my day off and try it. Thanks for the PKGBUILD AI.

Gen2ly · 2010-05-30 05:18:07

mack, are you using PulseAudio? I got this trick from eschalon forums:

padsp ./eschalon_book_2

ignus · 2010-06-01 15:21:32

This is really great - the game works perfectly on my modest system... Note for 64 bit users: the lib32-libxxf86vm package is the only thing thats needed to make it work on x86_64 :]

rb · 2010-06-14 12:23:22

Artificial Intelligence wrote:

Staerseus wrote:
does the instalation from AUR works for you? It tells me some error about non-existing archive and/or missing URL of it....
You need to download the game seperately and place it in the same directory. It's not possible to url it, the game is hosted on fileshare sites.

Sorry for the dumb question, but... what do you mean with 'the same directory'? I'm trying to install the game with yaourt but I don't know where to place the downloaded tar.gz.

Perhaps it doesn't work with yaourt?

xenobrain · 2010-06-14 14:00:29

Exactly. You gotta run makepkg yourself with the file in the same place. Or you might be able to drop the file in the temporary directory yaourt makes (under /tmp/<package-name>).

It would be nice if the PKGBUILD just included the binary though. I don't see a problem with this, as the full version is just unlocked from within the freely available demo.

rb · 2010-06-14 15:06:53

I see, thank you.

I'll install it manually then, not big deal as I felt curious about the game (I don't have a payment method, so I'll run the demo).

Artificial Intelligence · 2010-06-15 04:36:56

xenobrain wrote:

Exactly. You gotta run makepkg yourself with the file in the same place. Or you might be able to drop the file in the temporary directory yaourt makes (under /tmp/<package-name>).
It would be nice if the PKGBUILD just included the binary though. I don't see a problem with this, as the full version is just unlocked from within the freely available demo.

I could upload it to dropbox but I'm not sure if it's legal that way even if it's a demo which you can unlock when you buy it.

EDIT: I've uploaded it to dropbox, so you don't have to manually downloading the game.

Last edited by Artificial Intelligence (2010-06-15 06:44:40)

Google · 2010-12-02 09:48:36

I can't get any audio working. Can we use it with alsa sound?

edit: got it working with aoss

Last edited by Google (2010-12-02 09:51:11)

skottish · 2010-12-04 22:54:51

ignus wrote:

This is really great - the game works perfectly on my modest system... Note for 64 bit users: the lib32-libxxf86vm package is the only thing thats needed to make it work on x86_64 :]

Actually, all of this plus some implementation of libGL like lib32-nvidia-utils:

lib32-freetype2
lib32-gcc-libs
lib32-glibc
lib32-libdrm
lib32-libice
lib32-libsm
lib32-libx11
lib32-libxau
lib32-libxcb
lib32-libxdmcp
lib32-libxext
lib32-libxt
lib32-libxv
lib32-libxvmc
lib32-libxxf86vm
lib32-mesa
lib32-util-linux-ng
lib32-zlib

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