LINUXGAMES

Thanks to GamingOnLinux for letting us know that Hemisphere Games has started porting Osmos, an award-winning indie game, to Linux.

As some of you know, we had been looking for someone to port Osmos to Linux. But in the end, after mulling it over for a while (and a couple nice offers from experienced Linux folk), our very own Dave Burke has decided to tackle the port himself! Who knew he was such a masochist? ;-)

Anyways, Dave has reported back that after some initial head-banging on installation and configuration (he’s started with Ubuntu), things are progressing really well. Hooray for cross-platform libraries like OpenGL, OpenAL, libogg/vorbis, etc. and well abstracted code!

Features:

• Osmos is 100% DRM and region free.
• Sublime electronic soundtrack by Loscil, Gas/High Skies, Julien Neto, Biosphere, and more.
• Procedural generation: play random versions of any level.

Osmos Trailer from hemisphere games on Vimeo.

When available, the Linux version can be purchased online for $10 US.

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