Comments on: A Linux game… on a shirt… at Target?

By: rotund

rotund — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 12:47:11 +0000

The games with shirts (that I saw at least) were Gish: The Lost Levels, Tower of Goo, The Crowd, Gravity Head, Robot Love, Big Vine, and 2 others I can’t remember.

Looks like you can download many of the games for free anyways at http://www.experimentalgameplay.com/. They were very much casual games (5 minutes or so per session). The ones here were Tower of Goo, The Crowd, Gravity Head, and Big Vine.

I don’t believe Gish: The Lost Levels is the full Gish game either.

I can’t seem to find Robot Love anywhere online. Most things are pointing to people wanting to make love to a robot. This game was supposed to be about a robot rampaging a city looking for his love (another robot).

Most of the games were fmod, opengl, and zlib. So, they should run under Wine with little problem. One was Flash based.

By: Crusader

Crusader — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 11:02:04 +0000

Doh – thanks for checking on that though :]

By: rotund

rotund — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 09:39:35 +0000

I just found these shirts at my local Target. They were in clearance already.

All of the games are Windows only (even Gish which had Linux and OS X on the sleeve). I did get them to run under Wine, but it was kind of a pain. They are all compressed. When you run the .exe, it will create a folder in Wine’s temp folder (windows/temp) by default. This will have the full program in it. Just copy it elsewhere and run that version. (Gish just used an installer.)

By: GBGames

GBGames — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 15:30:28 +0000

I just wonder if this version of Gish runs without requiring the user to do more than install and run. I think my copy hasn’t run properly on newer systems due to some dependency involving OpenAL, so I had to create a script to launch the game.