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Re: [LUG] 5 Games, Pay What You Want.

 

On Fri, 07 May 2010 17:19:00 +0100
John Williams wrote:

> On Fri, 2010-05-07 at 17:13 +0100, Gordon Henderson wrote:
> > On Fri, 7 May 2010, John Williams wrote:
> > 
> > > http://www.wolfire.com/humble
> > >
> > > I hope this doesn't break any LUG rules but I thought it might be
> > > of interest to others. Its 5 games, which work just dandy on
> > > Linux from independent software bods. Best of all, for just a few
> > > days you pay what ever you feel its worth to *you* and get them
> > > all.
> > >
> > > I can't vouch for 4 of the games, but World Of Goo is brilliant.
> > 
> > I tried World of Goo and it crashed my X session completely,
> > leaving the screen trying to display a mode it couldn't display
> > (Signal out of range). I couldn't do anything to get out of it -
> > even ssh'ing in & killing it didn't restore the screen. I whinged
> > at them and didn't obvously buy them.
> > 
> > Gordon
> 
> Thats a shame, it is very good. I can't really suggest anything to you
> as you know a darned sight more about fixing stuff than I ;)

I played with WoG a while ago too.  Awesome game, but seemed to make my
ol' lappy run a tad warm.  Maybe when I can be bothered to sort out a
desktop machine for myself again I'll have more of a play and stump up
some cash for it - it really is an excellent game.

Grant.

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