Sunday, August 7, 2011

VVVVV on Ubuntu 11.04

Today I bought The Humble Indie Bundle #3
It's a collection of Indie games and it's pay-what-you-want. They clamied that "All games in the Humble Indie Bundle work natively on Linux." and I am interested to see if they really do. I have heard of most of the games and was very keen on trying out VVVVV which seems really cool.
It's only 2 days left on the package so hurry if you want to try it out.
The sale of the bundle is over :(
http://www.humblebundle.com/

After paying $10 I got a link where I could download the games. After downloading and unzipping VVVVV I entered the terminal and tried to run it.
>sh VVVVV

But got an error
./VVVVVV_32: error while loading shared libraries: libSDL_mixer-1.2.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

A litle googleing told me that the SDL_mixer library is missing.
Let's install it.
>sudo apt-get install libsdl-mixer1.2

And it works!


I'll try the other games and write more about it later.

Now I am going to enjoy the game.

Have fun!

UPDATE:

Mini Review!
VVVVV is a fantastic game, it's loads of fun and extremly challenging. I died almost a thousand times in the 2½ hours it took me to complete the game. But it was worth every death. It's innovative and groundbraking.
VVVVV is like Meteroid on LSD!

Final Stats.

I still have some "trinktes" left to collect. They are optional but adds extra value to the game. I'm sure that collecting the last 6 take me as long time as to finish the regular game.

If you get chance to try VVVVV you should, it's a great game.
http://thelettervsixtim.es/

Have fun!

Progress on Player Levels

Player Levels I have finished so far:
* Line Warp ( fun and challanging )
* Roadtrip to the moon ( fun but short )
* Pyramid Of Doom ( great but to short )
* Variation Venture ( best so far! )