Hey c666, yeah it's a bit sketchy to kind of ask people to install libraries, but the game is depended on them, at the same time, at least it's not silent, so people can not install them. The game usually should auto-revert to OPENGL on its own, as DIRECT3D won't work for Linux, i'll force the switch on the next update! Sorry for your issues!

I get the folloiwing error while trying to start the game:

Plugin 'agsgalaxy' could not be loaded (expected 'libagsgalaxy.so'), trying built-in plugins...
Placeholder functions for the plugin 'agsgalaxy' found.
Plugin 'agswaves' could not be loaded (expected 'libagswaves.so'), trying built-in plugins...
No placeholder functions for the plugin 'agswaves' found. The game might fail to load!
Loading game failed with error:
Script link failed.
Runtime error: unresolved import 'Grayscale'.

I downloaded the plugin libagswaves.so from https://github.com/Dualnames1/AGSWaves/releases but where to copy it? The game data directory doesn't work. This looks like an AGS problem but their documentation is very sparse.

Hello,

First and foremost: ♥️♥️ a massive thank you for providing a Linux port!! Very courageous! I just bought it and so far it does not disappoint ☺

I originally had the very same trouble as https://www.gog.com/forum/strangeland/linux_version_is_up/post17 (an error about Grayscale), I think my diagnosis is a little bit different from what I read earlier in this thread, so here it is, in case it helps someone :

- libagswaves.so is provided by the game itself, in the game/data/lib64/ directory, and thus there shouldn't be a need to download/recompile it from another source

- the inability to load libSDL2_mixer seemed to be the cause of the problem

- installing the libSDL2_mixer library from my distributions helped resolve the issue

Further info:

- libSDL2_mixer is also provided by the game ( also in `game/data/lib64/` directory) ... *BUT* the filename is incorrect: the game's library name is libSDL2_mixer-2.0.so.0.2.2, but glibc is trying to load libSDL2_mixer-2.0.so.0.
- libSDL2-2.0.so.0.9.0 suffers from the same (glibc tries to load a file named `libSDL2-2.0.so.0`, but since this library is likely already pre-installed by the OS, I don't think it will cause troubles

So probably libSDL2_mixer-2.0.so.0.2.2 should be renamed or sylinked to libSDL2_mixer-2.0.so.0 (and libSDL2-2.0.so.0.9.0 to libSDL2-2.0.so.0), however, installing the distro's library should work as well.

Thanks for giving a lead.

Just as an addendum: on Fedora one has to install "ags" and "SDL2_mixer" to get Strangeland running.

Thanks to half-a-poney for his help for running Strangeland under linux.
Because he is right.
With his help, Strangeland does not crash anymore but it has no sound.
I don't get any sound when launching Strangeland under Ubuntu 22.4.
The only way I found to run it under Ubuntu 22.4 is installing ScummVm.
The sound when starting is lightly different from the windows version but it is playable and according to the ScummVm website completable.
My opinion is the following : the ags64 given with the game is not correct (bad version). But where can we find the good one.

oops!