The Book of Unwritten Tales Now Available for Linux
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Nordic Games has released The Book of Unwritten Tales as a Linux title, now available for download via Steam Linux Beta. A recipient of countless awards and highly acclaimed by fans and critics alike, The Book of Unwritten Tales enables the Linux gaming community to fully immerse itself in Tux’s version of Aventásia.
Linux is definitely a great opportunity to make our games available to a broader audience and we are pleased to say that The Book of Unwritten Tales is simply the first of them to be developed for the Linux platform,” said Reinhard Pollice, Business and Product Development at Nordic Games.
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I own it on Steam. It runs perfectly under Ubuntu 12.10 64-bit, on Ivybridge Mobile graphics. I can definitely recommend it to fans of the point-and-click adventure genre.
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Thanks for the recommendation. It's truly a golden age for Linux gaming
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Thank you from here as well.
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I purchased TBoUT today, and got segmentation faults. I edited the .sh file as recommended on the game forums, and copied some .so files to a hidden ~/.lib directory (also recommended). Now the game keeps asking if I want to install ialibs32 (of course it's installed, but Steam does install dependencies for every Windows game it installs, so I'd expect something similar for a Steam Linux install) over and over again and exits](*,).
Grrrr.
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@gdbGamer over at the steam forums provides a workaround... Works for me!
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gdbGamer
Here is my workaround for Ubuntu 12.10 on x86-64:
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Step 1: Change directory to The Book of Unwritten Tales
$ cd ~/Steam/SteamApps/common/The\ Book\ of\ Unwritten\ Tales/
Step 2: Start the game in gdb
$ LD_LIBRARY_PATH=./lib/32/ gdb ./bin/32/kAGE
Step 3: Set a break point in the problematic function that will jump over the bad code
(gdb) break Ogre::GLXGLSupport::refreshConfig if !($eip = $eip + 1056)
Step 4: Confirm that you will set the break point on a pending symbol
Make breakpoint pending on future shared library load? (y or [n]) y
Step 5: Run the game
(gdb) run
This workaround is super fragile and will likely break if and when KING Art updates libOgre.
Note: You might want to keep an eye on the thread (link here) in case they make changes...
Right on @gdbGamer!
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Shannon, THANK YOU! I hadn't seen the solution before you posted it, but I've been able to play the game now; in fact, I played it until the Getting The Bag Of Gold screen (with the showman/fortune teller) for hours today.
It's kind of a rigamarole to get the game running, but...it runs!
You get a GOLD STAR for this post!
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@oldrocker99 - No problem at all. I was searching for the answer to the problem myself and I found this post. So I figured since you took the time to put the issue out there to begin with - I could at least share what worked for me. Glad it helped!
Actually, there might be an even easier fix than the work around. Try this simple fix instead:
Uncheck - Steam>Settings>IN-GAME>Enable Steam Community In-Game
Then try to start the game again. Works for me. Someone had mentioned it at the link I posted previously.
Hope you have a great holiday season! Cheers!
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Yers, disabling Steam Community did the trick!
This is a most amusing game, and frustrating as well (winning the money). I'm eagerly awaiting for Steam to put out more; the other Source Engine games are hopefully first on the list. I, myself, am holding out for Skyrim.
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Shannon_VanWagner
Uncheck - Steam>Settings>IN-GAME>Enable Steam Community In-Game
This worked perfectly! But like most people, it crashed when entering "Settings." :(