Try Darwinia!

[MadMan2k]

There are very few games being ported to Linux, and if there is some new out, you should buy it.
So did I with Darwinia - but Im posting here because it turned out to be real genial.
If you are not scared away by the strange graphics, which I pearsonally like very much, you will discover an innovative and creative game similar to Black&White, but unlike it making fun even over a long period of time.

Here you go for the Demo:
http://darwinia.co.uk/downloads/demo_linux.html

and here are some teaser-shots i took:

the Level:
http://img211.exs.cx/img211/9826/screenshot71qq.jpg

attaking the ants:
http://img76.exs.cx/img76/9633/antsad4eu.jpg

darwinians are holding position:
http://img76.exs.cx/img76/9379/sentrytower5vi.jpg

won:
http://img211.exs.cx/img211/7435/screenshot451mk.jpg

[titus]

strange graphics :)

I'll give it a try.

titus.

[CRCampbell]

How do you install this? I tried ,/ <file name, and it gives me an error that it can't find a gtk file.

[MadMan2k]

you'll need libgtk1.2

[MaX]

There are very few games being ported to Linux, and if there is some new out, you should buy it.
So did I with Darwinia - but Im posting here because it turned out to be real genial.
If you are not scared away by the strange graphics, which I pearsonally like very much, you will discover an innovative and creative game similar to Black&White, but unlike it making fun even over a long period of time.

Here you go for the Demo:
http://darwinia.co.uk/downloads/demo_linux.html

and here are some teaser-shots i took:

the Level:
http://img211.exs.cx/img211/9826/screenshot71qq.jpg

attaking the ants:
http://img76.exs.cx/img76/9633/antsad4eu.jpg

darwinians are holding position:
http://img76.exs.cx/img76/9379/sentrytower5vi.jpg

won:
http://img211.exs.cx/img211/7435/screenshot451mk.jpg
My darwinina has been acting up lately, it crashes when going into a map.
I think it's the sound locking up... does darwinia use ALSA or??? what?

[jdodson]

My darwinina has been acting up lately, it crashes when going into a map.
I think it's the sound locking up... does darwinia use ALSA or??? what?

sound problems? try killing the esd proccess before running the game.

[MadMan2k]

or try to set up dmix, like described here:
http://wiki2.archlinux.org/index.php/Alsa%2C%20XMMS%20and%20GAIM

[Redemption042]

My darwinina has been acting up lately, it crashes when going into a map.
I think it's the sound locking up... does darwinia use ALSA or??? what?
Darwinia uses OSS by default. You can tell it with some enviroment variable to use ALSA, but I can't remember what enviromnt variable it was. I'm sure if you read the readme it will tell you.

One last ditch solution would be to delete the .darwinia directory in your home directory. It would delete your progress in the game, though.

[i-tech]

It seems cool!! I'll give it a try. I seems like populous though , did you liked it guys?

[ChamPro]

I've played (and beaten) the Windows version.

Kick butt game and quite original. I wouldn't really compare it to Black and White though... more like a normal Real Time Strategy.

[Skid]

Could they not be arsed to finish the graphics rendering or somthing? :)

[MadMan2k]

it is intended :razz:
this is how an early alpha looked like:
http://darwinia.co.uk/extras/development/2002-09-06%20b.jpg

[i-tech]

this one looks better i guess :razz:

[telmo]

Great game! Very original in playing and looks.

[MaX]

Darwinia uses OSS by default. You can tell it with some enviroment variable to use ALSA, but I can't remember what enviromnt variable it was. I'm sure if you read the readme it will tell you.

One last ditch solution would be to delete the .darwinia directory in your home directory. It would delete your progress in the game, though.
Seems like I've reached a bug, when you proceed far into the game a bug
with the Armour units gets Darwinia crashing, it will be fixed in the patch.

at least I hope that's the error :)

[equilibrium]

omg excellent game :)

When I first saw the screenshots a while ago I thought it would be rubbish but the gameplay on it is brilliant and the concept really keeps interest. I downloaded the demo earlier and ended up buying it a hour or two later :D

I like the oldskool bootloaders aswell :)
preferences.txt
BootLoader =

none
firsttime
random
amiga
soul
raytrace
spectrum
matrix
gameoflife
fodder

I especially like the spectrum one 8)

[telmo]

It's a beautifull game! I've almost finished it. :P
In my opinion it's the original game ever!

Try it!

[GNUser]

I'd love to try it, but when running the demo, I get

andrew@LDell:~/darwinia-demo2$ ./darwinia
.
./lib/darwinia.bin.x86: ./lib/libgcc_s.so.1: version `GCC_4.2.0' not found (required by /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6)

[FoolsGold]

I'd love to try it, but when running the demo, I get

andrew@LDell:~/darwinia-demo2$ ./darwinia
.
./lib/darwinia.bin.x86: ./lib/libgcc_s.so.1: version `GCC_4.2.0' not found (required by /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6)

Go into the lib folder in your Darwinia folder, rename "libgcc_s.so.1" to something like "libgcc_s.so.1.bak" (forcing the game to use your system libgcc instead of the supplied version). Run the game and all should be well.

I've played the game. Haven't finished it, but it's all good.

[kvarley]

I originally got this game for Windows, now I have the patch for linux, it rules! You can get the all access cheat from http://www.gamecopyworld.com.

-Vitium-

[xopher]

I tried this game maybe 6 months ago - and then quickly forgot it, now Im gonna try it again! I remember it was lots of fun then, and Im sure it still is :) Thanks

[GNUser]

Go into the lib folder in your Darwinia folder, rename "libgcc_s.so.1" to something like "libgcc_s.so.1.bak" (forcing the game to use your system libgcc instead of the supplied version). Run the game and all should be well.

I've played the game. Haven't finished it, but it's all good.

Ah Ha!

It works! Thank you very much O wise one. :mrgreen:

[tavva]

Won't install for me:

ben@ben-desktop:~/Desktop$ sudo sh darwinia-demo2-1.3.0.sh
Verifying archive integrity... All good.
Uncompressing Darwinia demo2 1.3.0............................................. ..........................
/home/ben/.setup16586: error while loading shared libraries: libgtk-1.2.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
ben@ben-desktop:~/Desktop$ sudo apt-get install libgtk1.2
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
libgtk1.2 is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded.

Any ideas?

[Vadi]

Are you on ubuntu 64bit?

Edit: the symptoms show that you are. Try this guide: http://gaming.gwos.org/doku.php/guides:64bit:darwinia

[RIchard James13]

I found this game crashes and locks up my computer. It does it at the same place in both MS Windows and Linux. Right at the start where the guy is saying something about this day being special for darwinians. Then I discovered if I skipped the intro it would play, but later into the beginning just after you research the grenades for the darwinians and try to connect to the next island, his speech starts again and it locks my machine up.

The graphics look good, but I can't play it :(

I fiddled with some of the settings in graphics and sound and now the game stopped crashing. However I don't know what settings did it.