Monday, May 28, 2007

A Linux game that looks actually fine

For the record: burning works flawlessly now with Feisty. At least something works as it should. Yay!

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Speaking of Linux games, there is a neat one that brought me actually some fun: Globulation 2. It is a strategy, still in development and therefore with quite a few imperfections, but it runs smoothly even on my piece. It's still an alpha, so that can be excused for now.

Some good:
- it has a good unit management system; you don't actually select the units and send them to do something, you order what-is-to-be-done-where, and any free globs (that's the units) of a given type will hurry to the place to do their job. The ultimate top view above the many faceless units you command.
- the units do all the stuff on their own, and once you make sure your base is well equipped and supplied, you can concentrate on the strategy and don't loose time with micro-management.
- the whole look is kind of neat, with the globs and their buildings

Some bad:
- as mentioned, it is in development, so there are some things that seem unfinished
- the music becomes annoying pretty fast, to be turned off after a few minutes

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