machinarium

geburns · n00b Joined: 19 Apr 2002 Posts: 65 Location: st paul, mn

machinarium is a flash-based game. they have a packaged linux version. i understand that linux+flash is not the greatest pairing, but i would like to know if anyone is playing this game and if they are having the same issues:

works fine in full screen mode (so far)
problem: no left click mouse input is accepted in windowed mode.

thanks.

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dweezil-n0xad · Posted: Wed Dec 23, 2009 8:45 am Post subject:

I have completed Machinarium on my ~amd64 system, it's a great game.

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geburns · n00b Joined: 19 Apr 2002 Posts: 65 Location: st paul, mn

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ChrisJumper · Advocate Joined: 12 Mar 2005 Posts: 2400 Location: Germany

I had some issues using the Boxed Version. The installer won't work with wine or cedega. And had no tool to extract the swc or swf file from the exe. But it seems to work if you copy the whole folder from the cd, extract the linux-demo and copy the luncher into directory from the box and run it.. but i did not play through the whole game or demo to test if this works...

And i had issues on my x86_64 system with 64bit-flash and a missing lib, don't spent much time to know what's wrong there, maybe i'll test this later.

geburns · n00b Joined: 19 Apr 2002 Posts: 65 Location: st paul, mn

albernbowen · n00b Joined: 23 Feb 2010 Posts: 3

I bought Machinarium specifically because it reminded me of The Neverhood, one of my all time favorite games. It too was a series of puzzles in a beautifully created world, but it was done entirely with claymation. Its old now (I think circa 1996) and I don't know if it would even run on a modern OS (it was "Designed for Windows 95"). Also like Machinarium it had an incredible soundtrack - very organic and a perfect fit for the game - but it was more vocal than Machinarium's synthesized sounds.

Raptor85 · Apprentice Joined: 29 Dec 2007 Posts: 208

The Neverhood works perfectly under WINE, I just played through it again recently myself

If this game's similar I'm going to have to check it out...

annunaki2k2 · Posted: Wed Mar 31, 2010 11:27 am Post subject:

Hey guys/gals,

I'm tempted to buy this game, but can't get it to run on my machine (~amd64) - any advice on what you have done that maybe I haven't? What else did you do to get it to run? I tried adobe-flash with the 32bit use flag, but it made no difference.

This is what happens when I try to run the demo:

lexming · Posted: Wed Mar 31, 2010 11:49 am Post subject:

Hi, I bought the full game and it's working fine on my system.

annunaki2k2 · Posted: Wed Mar 31, 2010 12:40 pm Post subject:

annunaki2k2 · Posted: Wed Mar 31, 2010 1:43 pm Post subject:

Okay, looks like I've worked out the cause of the problem: https://bugs.gentoo.org/311575

The lib files are now provided by app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-baselibs-20100220, depreciating the need for "flash-libcompat". Only trouble is that it appears they are stored in /usr/lib32/nss/.

Anyone know the proper way to make machinarium see/use the libs in this new location? I could, of course, create symbolic links for each missing lib but that somehow doesn't feel right.

P.S. this should do away with the need for setting the 32bit flag of adobe-flash
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lexming · Posted: Wed Mar 31, 2010 6:24 pm Post subject:

Yeah, you are right, I have this 3 in my system:

annunaki2k2 · Posted: Wed Mar 31, 2010 8:19 pm Post subject:

Well, I eventually found this bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=312035, reported only yesterday - so it seems like I may have stumbled accidentally into a mess caused by moving around libs. As soon as bug 322035 is sorted, if you update everything, you should loose the /opt/flash-libcompt folder but it will still work.

Thanks for your assistance, hopefully it will work for everyone once /usr/lib32/nss/ is add automatically to LDPATH.
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Cyker · Veteran Joined: 15 Jun 2006 Posts: 1746

On a slight tangent, if you liked Machinarium, Samorost 1 & 2 are quite fun too

They're much easier than Machinarium (More of an interactive story with a few Hunt-The-Active-Element moments), but it has a cute doggie in it :mrgreen: