Alien Flux

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	doesn't run posted by Anonymous @ 81.2.68.148 on Jul 17 2003 7:08 PM
libstdc++.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory I think someone has linked against a different version of the standard library than the one used on my system. This is why binaries are bad and source is good.
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Re: doesn't run posted by grumbel @ 217.88.133.58 on Aug 14 2003 10:56 AM   This is why dynamic linked binaries are bad and static linked are good, source is only good if you want to port to an exotic platform or programm yourself and bad otherwise. Having source is good, being force to use it is bad.   [Reply]

	Nice Game posted by Anonymous @ 24.74.180.143 on Jul 17 2003 11:40 AM
Haha, this game rocks! Fun graphics and sounds. Really should have a README, I almost gave up on installing this one for my linux box till I saw the comment above on the proper command line.
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	Alien Flux posted by Anonymous @ 158.152.61.70 on Jul 16 2003 1:32 AM
I must also mention, although it says "source not available", MOST of the source IS available for you to play with! The important bit that does the graphics and sound is The Lightweight Java Game Library which we co-wrote with some sourceforge friends: http://www.lwjgl.org The handy bit that takes care of a load of tedious stuff like texture management and colour sequence animations and sprites and stuff is the Shaven Puppy Game Library, which is what happens when you decide to just let people look at your work-in-progress: http://sourceforge.net/projects/spgl The SPGL is always in a state of flux because it's just a little window in on the game code, really, so don't ever expect me to build and release it or anything. It's just there to look at and borrow code from. That's also why there's no docs to speak of... although it will javadoc to some extent. LWJGL is released under BSD license; SPGL doesn't really have much of a license attached to it - it's kind of like "mentionware": use it and I'd appreciate a link :) And one day Alien Flux will be opened for all to see. Cas :)
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Re: Alien Flux posted by blacksheep @ 213.205.68.119 on Jul 17 2003 6:45 AM Actually I think you have a bad vision of what the Linux users community is. Now a days, a good part of the Linux users don't know how to develop, maybe in HTML or so ;) Anyway, if you want to release the code and still sell the product, just release the sources under GPL and keep the datas comercial.   [Reply]

	A quality game posted by blacksheep @ 213.205.69.102 on Jul 15 2003 7:22 AM
This game has a very good gameplay, graphics, sounds and it's very original, it certanely diservers 5 stars. Anyway, even being this a demo version, it should had a README file and a script.
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Re: A quality game posted by blacksheep @ 213.205.69.102 on Jul 15 2003 7:35 AM What suprised me more in the game, is the fact that it is done in Java! And it makes use of OpenGL and OpenAL! Java programs tend to be slow, since they have to be interpreted while executed, so this was quite a suprise!, i never thought that a 3d action game could be made using Java! Congrats!   [Reply]

	What you need to start the game posted by Anonymous @ 217.230.39.41 on Jul 14 2003 3:12 PM
To start the game do following 1) unzip it 2) go to the unzipped directory 3) run this command: java -Djava.library.path=`pwd` -Xms128m -Xmx128m -XX:NewSize=10m -jar AlienFluxDemo.jar you need java to be installed
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Re: What you need to start the game posted by blacksheep @ 213.205.68.24 on Jul 14 2003 3:22 PM The guys didn't even bother to make a script!!   [Reply]   Re: What you need to start the game posted by Anonymous @ 158.152.61.70 on Jul 16 2003 1:21 AM   Hi! No, we didn't make a script - because I've never seen a Linux box before! It still amazes me that it runs at all! And this is cool, because we're going to write a load more games and they'll all run on Linux, too, it seems. If anyone can help out making us an RPM or some installer or something that'd be nice. Cheers for your cool ratings! Cas :)   [Reply]   Re: What you need to start the game posted by Anonymous @ 212.239.222.186 on Jul 16 2003 7:21 AM   Very good demo. Was surpriced i didn't had installation problems (thx for the information about how i can run it :)   [Reply]   Re: What you need to start the game posted by Anonymous @ 212.239.183.85 on Jul 18 2003 10:43 AM   How it it possible there is a "Average of 1 Ratings" ?? And why is the rating not on the news-site?   [Reply]   Re: What you need to start the game posted by blacksheep @ 193.136.33.220 on Jul 22 2003 2:54 AM There is only 1 average because I was the only to rate it. The stars don't appear in the main page, because it is a new game, not an update.   [Reply]   Re: What you need to start the game posted by Anonymous @ 193.95.232.79 on Aug 12 2003 10:15 AM   hmmm ...not really ...no idea how to unzip a .jnlp file ...plus the download section says it's 10MB, but it's only 1.2KB ...wierd   [Reply]   Re: What you need to start the game posted by Anonymous @ 64.5.48.50 on Aug 13 2003 8:18 AM   Hi there, you don't need to unzip .jnlp files - they're XML files that Java Webstart uses to launch applications. You need to have Java Webstart installed for it to work, which comes with the latest Sun Java Runtime environment. Cas :)   [Reply]