Humble Bundle 2 is live: 5 great games, no DRM, pay what you want (ars technica)

Posted Dec 15, 2010 21:51 UTC (Wed) by svena (guest, #20177)
In reply to: Humble Bundle 2 is live: 5 great games, no DRM, pay what you want (ars technica) by nix
Parent article: Humble Bundle 2 is live: 5 great games, no DRM, pay what you want (ars technica)

It's working fine here, with Flash and PA.

But if you're on 64-bit, I guess you're SOL. The game is basically shipped as a stand-alone (32-bit of course) Flash players.

Supposedly you can play the full game using the .swf from the games website (or extract the swf from the binary) which might mean it could someday work with 64-bit Flash from Adobe, or maybe Gnash, whichever comes first.

(Why otherwise sane game developers would willingly chain themselves to Adobe I don't understand...)

Humble Bundle 2 is live: 5 great games, no DRM, pay what you want (ars technica)

Posted Dec 15, 2010 23:25 UTC (Wed) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link] (3 responses)

Oh, gods, is it just a giant Flash-based game? A 300Mb+ Flash game?

I guess we are out of luck hoping for it to work on 64-bit then. But, equally, I guess speed and 3D support is hardly of the essence for it either, so it'll probably run under virtualization. I'll try that. (What a kludge!)

64bit flash is tolerable-to-decent now

Posted Dec 16, 2010 2:32 UTC (Thu) by jthill (subscriber, #56558) [Link] (1 responses)

Preview 3 of square, native 64bit, works real nice, fullscreen HD (except under compiz), the kid's games, the works. Booting into XP for comparison you can tell it's still slower but it's getting subtle.

64bit flash is tolerable-to-decent now

Posted Dec 16, 2010 9:28 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

Interesting! Still non-free so rather icky, but we couldn't expect miracles. I'll try it out (though again I don't see how it could get Machinarium working, as that appears to contain its own nonfunctional Flash player).

Humble Bundle 2 is live: 5 great games, no DRM, pay what you want (ars technica)

Posted Dec 17, 2010 15:59 UTC (Fri) by stevem (subscriber, #1512) [Link]

Works just fine for me...

...in a 32-bit chroot on my Debian system.

Humble Bundle 2 is live: 5 great games, no DRM, pay what you want (ars technica)

Posted Dec 15, 2010 23:29 UTC (Wed) by remur_030 (guest, #70979) [Link]

I got it running on openSUSE 11.3 and 64bit system, though some strace was needed to find out which 32-bit libraries are required and I don't use pulse audio.

I don't really know if I want to blame the developers here, they are obviously more into the art of designing a game then writing a solid portable application so they fell for adobe flash =/ Still a great game in the spirit of old times adventures and beautiful paintings!