Botanicula works perfect in Wine. Just install and play.


Botanicula is wrote with Adobe AIR and the Linux support has stopped at the version 2.6. The version sold here at gog requires version 3.2. So as far as I can tell there is no native way to play in Linux.

You're wrong.

You still get the old Adboe AIR 2.6 Installer for 32bit Linux Systems on the Adobe homepage.

There are many sites with an working Howto to patch Adobes 32bit .deb Package, so that you can install it on your 64bit Ubuntu, Mint, or Debian. I used this way to install AIR.

With this method i was able to install the BotaniculaLinux.air package that was available on the Humble Package. I completed Botanicula without any crashes or major issues.
The only flaw: The Sound stutters in the fairground scene.

Tested: Fullscreeen mode, Windowed mode, saving and loading Savegames.

If the gog.com installer contains an .air Package to you should give it a try.

I am not wrong, as a matter of fact I said the support stopped at version 2.6. (Did you read?)

The botanicula that gog sells requires AIR 3.2. I know nothing about other versions.

Sorry etb,
i didn't mean to insult you.

You are right. Adobe stopped Linux support with AIR 2.6. Who told you that Botanicula needs AIR 3.2?

As mentioned above me and my wife completed the game already without any bugs.
Me: Debian Sqzeeze 64bit. My wife Ubuntu 11.10 64bit

Amanita mentions Linux on their Homepage, so im confident that they tested the compatibility with AIR 2.6 first.

Botanicula itself says so:
$ <META-INF/AIR/application.xml grep 'air/app'
<application xmlns="http://ns.adobe.com/air/application/3.2&amp;quot; minimumPatchLevel="0">


I tried editing the file and setting 2.6, but it makes air crash. Probably Amanita uses something different in the linux version. Or something other is needed.

Hmm...

seem that they really compiled it against different air runtimes:

% cat application.xml | grep air/app
<application xmlns="http://ns.adobe.com/air/application/2.6&quot;&amp;gt;
xmlns - The Adobe AIR namespace: http://ns.adobe.com/air/application/3.1

Yeah...

I'm playing the native Linux version under Ubuntu 64. No problems so far, the game is great :-) !

Once again, I am speaking for the version sold at gog. You are not playing the native version sold here. No-one is, because there is not.

Yeah. An we talk about the "Linux Version" sold by Amanita.

I see no reason to buy a game for a foreign system to play it on a emulator, when there is a "native" version out there for pretty much the same price.

Repeat 100 times the meaning of WINE.

Once done I can answer: I see no reason why you are talking of something that is not sold here.

And it is not a matter of price, the point is that I like gog, for lots of reasons.

Here are the two most important (copy and paste):
``
You buy it. You own it. 100% DRM-free.

DRM, also called copy protection, tries to control you and your games. We don’t believe in that - all of the games on GOG.com come without any DRM at all!
''

``
Safety + privacy

The best security is not having your information; we don’t store credit card details or even ask for billing addresses.
''

They do not support linux, well... nobody is perfect. But at least they care about what is important. It might be possible that the other places that sell Botanicula follows the same principles. Yet I want to support gog.

I edited the first post I hope it is more clear.

I can confirm, having completed the game yesterday, that the game ran without issue on Linux using Wine. It is a shame that Amanita Design use Adobe Air and Flash in their games. Hopefully they will in the not too distant future switch to, for example, HTML5 / JavaScript and package that with Webkit or Geko rather than Air and Flash.

It might be better, but to me a ``gold level'' support in Wine is sufficient.

It's a shame that GOG only sells the WIndows version. But anyway, this forum should be free (of speach) enough to also talk about other versions of GOG games. I would prefer a "Linux-made" Version instead of a windows version running with wine.