Ahead of a release that will be "Soon!", the comedy cosmic horror adventure Gibbous - A Cthulhu Adventure has a new trailer and the Steam page is now live.
Yet another game that was successfully funded on Kickstarter, also one that seems it will keep the promise of Linux support too since the developer got in touch with us directly to point it out. They even joined our Discord as well, so that was pretty fun to see.
Gibbous is a comedy cosmic horror game - a modern adventure that is classically inspired, features gorgeous HD art, detailed traditional animation, and a lengthy story that will see the three protagonists travel around the world and deal with abominations both cosmic and human-made, voodoo, and Things That Should Not Be. From Lovecraft Country to Transylvania, set off on a quest to get a very cynical cat to stop talking.
Anyway, they don't seem to have an exact date for release yet but they have a Steam page finally up, as well as this sweet trailer:
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Oh boy! This looks like it could be a serious amount of fun. Some great voice over, lovely animated art and an amusing setting.
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Looks nice!
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Looks nice!The GOG link only leads to a wishlist, it's not actually going to be on GOG yet by the looks of it.
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Backed it, they had a Linux demo from the start and I liked the style they had going :)
It's been a real passion project for them and I hope it does well after the countless extra hours they've put into it.
It's been a real passion project for them and I hope it does well after the countless extra hours they've put into it.
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Looks nice!The GOG link only leads to a wishlist, it's not actually going to be on GOG yet by the looks of it.
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They display this on their website. I hope It will.
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That's some beautiful artwork right there. Gotta love the smooth animations. Another adventure for my endless wishlist.
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demo doesnt work for me. "error while loading shared libraries: libXcursor.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory"
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I always feel a bit sceptical when it comes to "Comedy Adventures". Not really sure why, since I did love the "Monkey Island" games and most other Lucasarts adventures as well, not to mention the recent "Thimbleweed Park". Maybe it´s because comedy that fails to be funny, is much worse than horror that fails to be scary or a mystery/adventure that fails to be very mysterious/adventurous.
Anyway, I´ll overcome this predjudice by buying this game!
Anyway, I´ll overcome this predjudice by buying this game!
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Humm
Never knew my country had a games industry.
Well , even an indie one.
Never knew my country had a games industry.
Well , even an indie one.
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Reading Lovecraft was where I first became aware of the word 'Gibbous'(also 'beetling' which I mention here only because I like to say it), so I imagine that the devs of this parody are intimate with his work. Straight, so called, 'Lovecraftian' games almost universally fail to convey the deeply unsettling 'otherness' of Lovecraft's world, but I could see a parody set in a Lovecraftian setting being wildly enjoyable, especially to the fan of good 'ol H.P..
Gonna have to keep an (unseen and blind, soul-withering) eye on this one.
Gonna have to keep an (unseen and blind, soul-withering) eye on this one.
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I'll get this for the artwork alone. It reminds me of Don Bluth's wild style (Dragon's Lair, Space Ace)!
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Humm
Never knew my country had a games industry.
Well , even an indie one.
Now I needed to find out, and... they're from Transilvania (Romania). How cool is that?!? :-D
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HummI do believe they mentioned other developers existing in Romania, perhaps even Transylvania itself, at some point. This particular team is originally part of a mobile-focused company, though, which I feel is a market that's probably easier to get into for small companies in atypical countries than console/PC gaming dev (since mobile games usually have a smaller scope).
Never knew my country had a games industry.
Well , even an indie one.
I imagine that the devs of this parody are intimate with his work. Straight, so called, 'Lovecraftian' games almost universally fail to convey the deeply unsettling 'otherness' of Lovecraft's world, but I could see a parody set in a Lovecraftian setting being wildly enjoyable, especially to the fan of good 'ol H.P..Oh, they certainly are. They've made plenty of references to his works, sung songs about Chthulu and cited it as the main inspiration for the theme. But as far as I can tell this will be a comedy/parody above all, so I wouldn't really expect it to be actually disturbing.
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demo doesnt work for me. "error while loading shared libraries: libXcursor.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory"
Installing a package that should be called "libxcursor1" might help?
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demo doesnt work for me. "error while loading shared libraries: libXcursor.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory"
you need the 32bit versions of libXcursor
dpkg -S /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libXcursor.so.1
libxcursor1:i386: /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libXcursor.so.1
sudo apt-get install libxcursor-dev:i386
you might find the other libs with
ldd Gibbous_Linux.x86
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Installing libxcursor1:i386 should suffice. No need for the dev package.demo doesnt work for me. "error while loading shared libraries: libXcursor.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory"
you need the 32bit versions of libXcursor
dpkg -S /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libXcursor.so.1
libxcursor1:i386: /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libXcursor.so.1
sudo apt-get install libxcursor-dev:i386
you might find the other libs with
ldd Gibbous_Linux.x86
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demo doesnt work for me. "error while loading shared libraries: libXcursor.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory"
Installing a package that should be called "libxcursor1" might help?
its already installed
demo doesnt work for me. "error while loading shared libraries: libXcursor.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory"
you need the 32bit versions of libXcursor
dpkg -S /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libXcursor.so.1
libxcursor1:i386: /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libXcursor.so.1
sudo apt-get install libxcursor-dev:i386
you might find the other libs with
ldd Gibbous_Linux.x86
that helped, but then i needed
sudo apt install libxrandr2:i386
now it starts, but crashes after the unity screen
"Searching for joysticks with GUID" .... a lot of joysticks
edit: i tried this demo
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/real-time-tactical-rpg-city-of-the-shroud-has-a-linux-demo-build-available-for-testing.12333
same error. searches some joystick... logitec, xbox, saitek, etc and crashes
Last edited by mylka on 13 Aug 2018 at 11:59 pm UTC
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