./play.it 2.5.0 got released today, and as you can see from the changelog below it is quite a big piece of work:  
As usual let’s start with the scripts that got interesting updates:
• A Bird Story
New supported GOG installer
• Baldur's Gate - Enhanced Edition
Drop dependency on obsolete package libjson0 on Debian-based systems
• Baldur's Gate 2 - Enhanced Edition
Drop dependency on obsolete package libjson0 on Debian-based systems
• Deus Ex
New supported GOG installer
• Don't Starve
New supported GOG installer
Drop non-critical dependency on xdg-utils on Debian-based systems
Fix launcher broken by an enhancement included in the 2.3.0 release
• Jazzpunk
New supported Humble installer
• Pillars of Eternity
New supported GOG installers for base game and expansions
• Star Wars Battlefront II
New supported GOG installer
• System Shock 2
Use a WINE virtual desktop on first launch, to avoid display issues on some setups
• The Fall
New supported GOG installer

And of course the list of newly supported games, I know this part is your favourite:
• A Virus Named Tom
• Binaries
• Blackwell 1: The Blackwell Legacy
• Blackwell 2: Blackwell Unbound
• Blackwell 3: Blackwell Convergence
• Blackwell 4: Blackwell Deception
• Broken Age
• Fire!
• Kyn
• Litil Divil
• The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind *
• Oxenfree
• Paws: A Shelter 2 Game
• Shelter 2
• Solar Flux
• Teslagrad
• The Little Acre
• Total Annihilation Kingdoms
• Tulpa
* game formerly supported by ./play.it 1, now handled by ./play.it 2

Let’s game ;)

Any thoughts on adding native unity binaries for games that support it instead of WINE? I'm thinking of Kyn, Randals Monday and others from this thread.

This is totally in my TODO list, close to the top ;)

Change of pace and format for ./play.it news: instead of waiting for a big change before posting anything, I will now post news every week, no matter if there has been a lot of things happening or not since last time.

It starts today with an update post without any library update, but quite a lot of updated scripts, and of course a couple new supported games.

Since last time, a lot of scripts needed some fixes to pass some strict syntax checks added in library update 2.5.0:

• A Boy and His Blob
• A Good Snowman is Hard to Build
• A Story About My Uncle
• Anomaly 2
• Baldur's Gate - Enhanced Edition
• Baldur's Gate 2 - Enhanced Edition
• Crypt of the NecroDancer
• Deponia 3: Goodbye Deponia
• Fran Bow
• Heroes of Might and Magic III
• Icewind Dale - Enhanced Edition
• Invisible Inc.
• Jazzpunk
• J.U.L.I.A Among the Stars
• Knights of Pen and Paper
• Melody's Escape
• Pandora: First Contact
• Risk of Rain
• Solar 2
• Star Wars Battlefront II
• The Blackwell Epiphany
• The Swapper
• The Whispered World
• Trine
• Undertale

Some other scripts got unrelated updates:

• Faster Than Light
New GOG installer supported
• I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream
New GOG installers supported
• Trine
Add a dependency on PulseAudio, needed to get good quality audio in this game

And a bunch of new games:

• Banished
• Caravan
• Dex
• Evoland
• Hammerwatch (game previously handled by ./play.it 1, now supported by ./play.it 2)
• Machinarium
• Puzzle Agent
• Strafe
• The Inner World
• The Warlock of Firetop Mountain

Let’s game!
(and see you next week)

Ooooh, Banished. I've had Banished ever since it was a part of some GOG promotion. It was supposedly coming to Linux, and then, I think, cancelled. I was always looking forward to Banished, but I was waiting for the Linux port.

Either way, I'd kind of forgotten all about until now. I'll have to check it out!

Thanks for everything!

I’ve not had the time for an extended play of Banished yet, but from what I’ve tried this is a game that might really click with me ;)

By the way, this is mostly thanks to this game that we have 64-bit WINE support in ./play.it since version 2.5.0
(this was already a feature of ./play.it 1.x, but it took quite a long time before landing into ./play.it 2)

It’s wednesday again, ./play.it weekly news’ day!

No library update last week, so let’s start with the scripts updates:

• Baldur's Gate - Enhanced Edition
Fix handling of libssl 1.0.0 archive
• Baldur's Gate 2 - Enhanced Edition
Fix handling of libssl 1.0.0 archive
• Fran Bow
Fix handling of libssl 1.0.0 archive
• Heroes Chronicles
Correction du numéro de version pour certains installeurs
• Icewind Dale - Enhanced Edition
Fix handling of libssl 1.0.0 archive
• Risk of Rain
Fix handling of libssl 1.0.0 archive
• System Shock 2
New GOG installer
• Undertale
Fix handling of libssl 1.0.0 archive

And just in case you already completed all games supported by ./play.it, here are a couple new ones that should help you go through the week:

• Convoy
• Dead Synchronicity: Tomorrow Comes Today
• Feist
• Hard West
• Mirror's Edge
• The Interactive Adventures of Dog Mendonca and Pizzaboy
• The Westport Independent

Let’s game!

This doesn't work properly in Wine yet... there are issues with textures, lighting/shadows and other graphics effects - you can even see them in the screenshot (compare it to e.g.: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1a2o-vhBNFg&t=160s )

We noticed that some textures and lightning effects look strange, but with no Windows at hand for comparison we settled for calling it a strange aesthetics choice ;)
Glad to know it’s just a WINE issue that would probably be fixed at some point.

Still, the game seems fully playable with WINE, if you can go past the graphics glitches.

Great timing!! I've been waiting for this and right now Banished is matching it's best discount (not counting pinatas). :D

Thanks for keeping us informed. It is greatly appreciated.

Have fun keeping your people alive and well, it’s not easy but it’s rewarding ;)

Hello World!
This week a new library version went live, and mark the end of an arduous bug hunt that started with the 2.5.1 release…
Said bug is crushed, let’s hope it will serve as an example for future wannabe bugs:  
As usual, quite a lot of scripts got updates:
• Baldur's Gate - Enhanced Edition
On Arch Linux, use system-provided version of libssl 1.0.0
• Baldur's Gate 2 - Enhanced Edition
On Arch Linux, use system-provided version of libssl 1.0.0
• Binaries
Fix dependencies list
• Fran Bow
On Arch Linux, use system-provided version of libssl 1.0.0
• HuniePop
New GOG installer supported
• Icewind Dale - Enhanced Edition
On Arch Linux, use system-provided version of libssl 1.0.0
• Kyn
New GOG installer supported
• Risk of Rain
On Arch Linux, use system-provided version of libssl 1.0.0
• Robin Hood: The Legend of Sherwood
New GOG installers supported
• The Book of Unwritten Tales
Installs DirectX 9 on first launch, to avoid some graphics corruption issued
• Undertale
On Arch Linux, use system-provided version of libssl 1.0.0

This week we’re spoiled with a good bunch of new supported games, most of them courtesy of mortalius and mopi:
• Don't Starve: Reign Of Giants
• Don't Starve: Shipwrecked
• Door Kickers
• Dungeons 2
• Fear Equation
• Goetia
• Hitman: Codename 47
• Little Big Adventure 2
• Pixel Piracy
• Planescape Torment - Enhanced Edition
• Republique
• Spellforce
• The Guild 2
• The Guild 2 Renaissance
• The Sexy Brutale

Let’s game!

If you understand French, the most complete ./play.it presentation to date has just been published on LinuxFR:
./play.it installe vos jeux sans prise de tete

Of course, your feebdack would be most welcome here as well as on LinuxFR ;)

And if you have suggestions of websites that would happily host an English version of this presentation, please share them here!

If I didn’t post any news last week, it’s only partly due to working on writing news article published on LinuxFR. Another reason is the great deal of work that was required to polish ./play.it 2.6, that comes with a couple nice features.

Here goes the list of evolutions since last report two weeks ago:  
Of course, working on the library doesn’t mean maintenance work stopped, so here are the most interesting updates to existing scripts:
• Binaries
Add a dependency on PulseAudio
• Faster Than Light
New GOG installer supported
• Pid
New GOG installer supported
Fixed saved games persistence even if the ./play.it prefix got deleted
• Republique
Store saved games outside of WINE prefix
• Shadowrun: Dragonfall
Add a dependency on ALSA plugins
• Shadowrun: Hong Kong
Add a dependency on ALSA plugins
• System Shock 2
New GOG installer supported

Adding new games went a little bit slower than usual, but kept going too. As you might notice, half of them were previously handled by ./play.it 1:
• Dungeon Keeper
• Heroes of Might and Magic: A Strategic Quest
• Icewind Dale II
• Mark of the Ninja
• Memoranda
• Order of the Thorne: The King's Challenge
• Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds
• Subject 13

Let’s game!