Sacred Gold now in the tree

I don’t usually do that but here it is: a shameless, although thankful, plug for LGP. I recently bought three games from them during their massive 24-hour sale in May. I wish I had time to play games but I don’t. I only bought these games to support them and to thank them for the positive impact which I think they have on Linux. After all, even the almighty vapier came to Linux because of games (or was it pr0n?).

At that price point though I don’t know who was supporting who, so I decided I’d write ebuilds for the games I bought. Of the three that I got, Cold War already had one, X3: Reunion wouldn’t install due to not enough space on my hard drive (yep, I’m that strapped), so it left me with Sacred Gold. It’s now in the tree so feel free to buy the game and play with the ebuild. I have decided that I would only support the provided libraries, mostly to simplify 64-bit support. You can play with LD_LIBRARY_PATH and use your own libraries but I don’t want to hear about it. If you don’t get any sound in the game, for example, it’s probably because your /dev/dsp device is already in use by another application. In order to fix that you need to close the application which is keeping /dev/dsp busy (hint: www-plugins/adobe-flash), or use your own libasound.so.2. But let me say that again: you’re on your own.

Anyway. Enjoy Sacred Gold and tell me how it is. I have played it a whole five minutes and it looks like it has potential.

4 thoughts on “Sacred Gold now in the tree”

  1. You might want to close bug #267993 then. 🙂 I bought Sacred Gold for my wife not so long ago. Works really well.

  2. Did the same thing recently with some game company.

    I didn’t even check what kind of game it was but I believe it putting my money where my mouth is and promoting the OS I use and believe in, when I can. (And it was only $5.00.)

    I wish I had time to play games…

  3. Can anyone tell me how I can get my hands on a copy? Do I have to buy it direct from LGP, or is it available through retailers? And is there a seperate Linux version of the game to buy, or is it like Neverwinter Nights where you buy the Windows version and it copies over the data files for use? I’m going to guess the former, as an “emerge sacred-gold -pv” says it’s got 0kb of files to download; the client has to come from SOMEwhere…

    I also would like to support any Linux gaming publishers, as it annoys me to have to reboot my computer into Windows just to play games. NWN was quite good on Linux, but I’ve finally completed it, so I’m looking for another game to try.

  4. James,
    I hadn’t seen the bug. It was assigned to me so I’ll have a look at it.

    John,
    You could for example start by looking at the LGP web site which I linked to in my blog post and which has all the answers to your questions. I won’t say anymore because it’s not a Gentoo developer’s job to advertise for a game publisher.
    As for having finished NWN, look at http://dev.gentoo.org/~calchan/nwn/. You’ll find ebuilds for some of the most highly regarded third party campaigns for NWN. I’m also the maintainer of NWN in Gentoo and can’t unfortunately do anything with it right now, but this should change soon. As soon as I’ll be able to test it again I’ll fix all the bugs and may add more third-party content.

    Denis.

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