Thanks! This is very useful info. /dev/input devices are opened RD_ONLY, with the open syscall. Needing root permissions to read from input devices seems very strange to me. Does your distro have a input user group that you need to be in, like it is with Arch Linux?
This thread is for anyone who might try this with Wine. The idea is that if you fix any issues you encounter, then post them here.
At first I couldn't get the game to run, but I found this error message,
005d:err:module:load_builtin_dll failed to load .so lib for builtin L"WLDAP32.dll": libldap_r-2.4.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory.
It turns out that I needed the 32bit version of libldap. It was called lib32-libldap on Arch Linux, as of writing.
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I have a Dualshock 2 controller and the game isn't picking it up. I'm going to try different things, and I'll edit this post after.
I was unable to play, because of the controller requirement. I do have a game controller, but it's a dualshock 2, which is pretty rare with PC. As such, it's understandable that it doesn't work
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I started out with tic tac toe :)
Concerning the GLEW issue. Usually when we release games, we want the least amount of system packages, so can use something like http://glad.dav1d.de/ instead, because it compiles into your binary. (GLEW probably can do this aswell)
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BAM BAM
The art and focus of the game are good, but when I first heard the shoot sound you used, I fell in love.
There's no need for a mouse. I just put my cursor on the head, and used LMB as my shoot button (I'm on a laptop). Also staying in the bottom left corner makes it very easy. I didn't know there was a super shot.
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I really liked parts of this. I picked up the item that we don't get to know what is, and it really worked in such a way that I spontaneously used it when informed about it, which fits with the narrative. Because I got the feeling of "oh no. I get what I actually did".
However I disagree with your choice of subject matter for a Gamejam. There's not enough time to explore something like this. So it just depressed me, and made me concerned that there's someone out there, suffering over such an experience, while I don't get the satisfaction of a good story/experience, for going through it, because it was made in Gamejam time.
Your decision to make everything a noise texture, but still discernible and colorful, was enjoyable.
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The colors really make it look good. It's a physics toy, and those are always fun. The movement is very slow however. It is so slow, I was switching between my controller and the keyboard, because I couldn't figure out if it was actually working.
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This is solid. The idea that you have to stand on a button, and launch yourself, really feels like a good use of one function/verb. Also how you have to roll over, and then jump, to get through a tight spot.
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I think this is a perfect gamejam project idea, and I didn't encounter any bugs or jankiness. I did however not figure out how to win the second level, where you are supposed to shoot through the hole. I kept hitting the same spot.
