Nominated as a IGF Seamus McNally Finalist, NightSky is an ambient action-puzzle game that offers a gameplay experience unlike any other, as cerebral challenges fill uniquely designed picturesque worlds. The player must maneuver a sphere by using realistic physics to advance; each of these worlds is broken into different areas. The original soundtrack by experimental jazz musician Chris Schlarb will further heighten the surreal experience.
IndieGames.com says: "NightSky does things with balls that you never thought possible, and is stunning in motion."
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This looks interesting. A peaceful game.
neads to be on ipod
I bought this game on the Humble Indies Bundle #4 and I managed to have it on my account using the installed games wizard. Will it stay there?
no.
Neither work for me on my 64-bit Lubuntu system... but I noticed that it freezes at the point where the sound would start. Maybe it's another one of those games that breaks if you use bare ALSA rather than PulseAudio.
I can play the Windows version on Linux using Wine, but that's really not something I like having to do.
(I had to remove PulseAudio because, at unpredictable moments, it starts pegging one of my 3.2Ghz CPU cores at 100% load until you kill it)
I have the opposite problem. I bombs out at launch with ALSA pcm device and socket errors (I'm running Pulse) when I run the 64-bit version. I've not tried the 32-bit binary yet, but I'm about to try it...
32-bit binary also has problems, in that it requires libraries not provided by the ia32 library support package. I'd need to build a few 32-bit libraries to make it work. Very frustrating.
Ugh. Well, for the record, it works beautifully in Wine if you get fed up with fighting with a shameful port that was probably only sloppily written to qualify for the Humble Indie Bundle.
Flawlessly until a Wine update breaks it on me. At least I'll have some gameplay, though. Thanks for testing that and reporting back!
You could always use PlayOnLinux to set up a Wine prefix that'll stay on a specific version of Wine. (Among other things, PlayOnLinux can automate downloading specific versions of Wine and installing them inside folders in ~/.PlayOnLinux/wine/)
I used it as an automated way to set up a Wine prefix for the copy of Legend of Grimrock I bought off GOG.com.
My only caution is that their "stable" release isn't always as stable as the "old" version your distro packages.