Comments - DrMcCoy

Yes, that's exactly what I mean. I haven't tried it, because I don't have Downfall (and I didn't have much time lately), but I do expect it to work just like Cat Lady does.

And just to clarify a bit where this is coming from (since your first comments seemed a bit confused):

Chris Jones, after lots of protestation, finally began open sourcing the editor and engine code 3 years ago (kudos to him). People in the AGS community started cleaning up the code and making it run on Linux (there's been some problems on the Mac OS X front thanks to Allegro from what I've read, unfortunately).

Thanks to those efforts, The Cat Lady automatically works on Linux. Just point AGS to the Windows EXE containing the game archive. The only problem I've found so far is that, while it runs great on my desktop system, it's too slow on my older laptop, because AGS only does software scaling on Linux. Or at least it did a few months ago, no idea if that's already been changed/fixed.

So from what I understand, you would "only" need to repackage The Cat Lady and Downfall for Linux and test if everything works. Just drop in AGS compiled for Linux (32- and 64-bit), add precompiled libraries (like Allegro), and write a short wrapper script that looks if the system is 32-bit or 64-bit and starts the appropriate binary with the AGS archive (or hell, even the full old EXE) as a parameter. And then package it as a more Linux friendly tar.gz/tar.bz2/tar.xz/zip or whatever, BAM, finished, theoretically.

Would be very nice seeing a penguin here and on Steam for both games. :)

And while I can't speak for the AGS community or the subset working on the open source'd engine code, I'm sure they are happy to help should something be broken for either The Cat Lady or Downfall on Linux. :)

As with The Cat Lady, any chance of getting an officially packaged Linux version?
While I did not try this game (only The Cat Lady), but it probably should work with the community-updated open sourced AGS version: Github.com

Any chance of getting an officially packaged Linux version?
Because it does work with the community-updated open sourced version of AGS: Github.com

Okay, just finished it. All in all a great game, if maybe a tad on the short side, but that's to be expected. Really dig the art style and the music.

Got a few more points to nitpick:
- Some speech lines were far quieter than the rest
- The audio quality of Matoke's lines was rather bad
- Had a non-reproducible segfault while leaving the screen with the resting welder

I'm also not happy at all about having only three save slots. I'm a compulsive saver, I'd normally collect dozens, if not hundreds of saves during playthroughs. :P

Small bug when looking at the...modified Canapes on the ship.
The subtitles show "bwan5[]; //516 [...] NOT_IN_TEXTS" (the [] being a box character, and [...] the actual text that should be shown), and no voice is played for that line.

Seems to work fine here too (Debian Sid amd64); (though a 64bit build for the glibc 2.13 version would be nice too, of course).

Wait, what, new separate release? Where?

Got the same problem on Debian Sid, which still uses the (e)glibc 2.13, while the game is compiled against 2.15.
With the libc being such an integral part of the system, I'd rather not try to manually backport the, say, Ubuntu package. I don't really feel like having to fix that should I mess up.

Is there any chance of getting a recompiled binary (against glibc 2.13)?