I am quite late to the party here and I am going through the Abortion Bundle that this was included in...
From what little I have read so far, I may just run a session with this. I like the writing so far. Nazi is a word thrown around way too often, and in some games where they are the antagonist, it only ever really goes for the "Nazi bad!" idea.
This! This... is nice. Some character and depth into the regime is a refreshing taste, especially from an 'indie' developer. I am already having some ideas to homebrew a version or campaign for characters that might want to make Nazi regime the protagonists of the conflict/story.
I have followed and added to my itch.io collection and sent a couple pages to one of my constant players to see if they would be interested.
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I would say firstly; I am not a developer. My experience is also not in using ready-made engines; I made a Zelda clone a loooong time ago and made the tile-ing engine for it myself in BASIC. If I could give some advice; I would look at why libcurl-nss was being called and find a more recent/supported alternative to those calls. The developer of the engine would know way more and might be interested in the archlinux thread and use that to tweak their engine and release a new version.
It would require looking at the code before it gets compiled to binary. This of course, is up to you and how much further you want to go. Linux is already a 'niche' platform and Arch users are even smaller group still. It isn't known for being the most user friendly.
Maybe include info in the readme on how to resolve this issue IF that user has the same problem. Overwhelming majority of Linux users actually read those readme files.
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=2081108#p2081108
So, it involved building a package from scratch with some patches and i voila !
Crescent Loom now runs. I think, and I could be wrong, I am still waiting on emails and discussion, there is a push to get rid of Network Security Services (NSS) in favor of what is happening with OpenSSL??? or fold the functions into curl at a base level??? I am not clear on it with just a cursory glance at an article and the fix is for something quite niche for Linux users. The only reason why there is a large number of answers that worked for Ubuntu and other users is Ubuntu being more popular of a distrobution, but also fosters a "complete user friendly" system, while Arch caters to people that are trying to be like Windows power users and more. libcurl-nss.so would be included in some of the curl packages available to them as a "just throw the kitchen sink in" to ensure compatibility, not security.
So.... Looks like I will be running the Windows version through WINE. I can only imagine what kind of memory errors I will get from a game like this...
I have been working with someone on the Arch forums to see if there is a package or something I need to install, libcurl-nss-so.4 is the only thing missing. So far, nothing has worked and 5 hours of Google-ing hasn't revealed helpful results. Maybe for Ubuntu users, but Arch is a different beast altogether.
If you are allowed or able, what libraries were used to build Crescent Loom against? Either that or if I had the source I could find why it is calling libcurl-nss-so and redirect to another library that is actually used on Arch systems.
I haven't completely given up, I am concentrating on something else. Unfortunately, most Google results take me to resources for more established Linux distros, like Ubuntu. I use Arch, which builds everything from the ground up; booting into an Arch USB drops you to a simple CLI. You have to turn on services and begin to download packages to build a GUI and window manager. This means you have great control over exactly what is installed, but has the con of not using the same software repositories that more user friendly distros use. No dulaboot to Windows as well; forces me to learn and use Linux proper. Doing rather well. ;)
I'll keep a look out and post my results in case another user might have the same issue but never followed thru.
'twould be awesome. The game description sounds interesting. Had I payed attention all this time, maybe I would have caught any kind of changes? Clicking the download link in the indie package page, I am directed to:
"You do not have access to this page
This game has been restricted by the author and can not be downloaded. The owner of the page must give permission to those they wish to access the page. If you think this is a mistake, please get in touch with support.
I am not sure what is going on there.
So I bought a bunch of schtuff on itch.io and I am going through it all and seeing if I like it or not. This got my attention. I am on Arch Linux. I am slowly learning and have resolved many issues. One I cannot get past, when trying to run this, I get:
"./Crescent Loom: error while loading shared libraries: libcurl-nss.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory"
What are the requirements for this? I have gone into the arch repository and installed:
curl, curlftpfs, lib32-curl, lib32-libcurl-compat, lib32-libcurl-gnutls, libcurl-compat, libcurl-gnutls, nss, lib32-nss
I then went looking for 'libcurl-nss.so' and I cannot find it anywhere under /root. I have updated all installed packages and reboot and still nothing.
oi!
So, I got the Indie Bundle for Abortion some time ago. I bought it a couple times for me, my girlfriend at the time and her nephew. I was recently going through it to find more to play and Flying Frags is part of it, yet I cannot download it. Any possible way I can be given access? Is this something I need to bring to itch.io's admin's attention?