Hello fellow Linux gamers!

Here you can find informations about ./play.it, a tool building packages for Debian, Arch Linux, Gentoo and any derivative (Ubuntu, Manjaro, Linux Mint, etc.) from your installers for The Talos Principle.
These packages can be installed easily with your favourite packages manager.

Download links and usage instructions can be found on the following page:
The Talos Principle

We hope youʼll enjoy the ease-of-use provided by this tool as much as we enjoy writing and tweaking it ;)

Here you go for more supported games!

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Salut camarades Linuxiens !

Vous trouverez ici des informations à propos de ./play.it, un outil construisant des paquets pour Debian, Arch Linux, Gentoo ou nʼimporte quelle distribution dérivée de celles-ci (Ubuntu, Manjaro, Linux Mint, etc.) à partir de vos installateurs pour The Talos Principle.
Ces paquets sʼinstallent facilement via votre gestionnaire de paquets habituel.

Les liens de téléchargement et les instructions dʼutilisation se trouvent sur la page suivante :
The Talos Principle

Nous espérons que vous apprécierez le confort apporté par cet outil autant que nous apprécions lʼécrire et lʼaméliorer ;)

Pour plus de jeux, rendez-vous par ici !

I made a quick look at the script and I guess this software of yours is a wrapper?

Also isn't
rm --recursive "$PLAYIT_WORKDIR"
kind of exploit prone?
( like under some circumstances this could result in a mess, like should the cvar dir get shifted "through whatever means" )

Any hope you could provide "raw" data on used Wine DLLs / overrides / settings?

You can find a more complete description of what ./play.it is and does both on gog.com forums and in its README file.

To make it short it is a specialized packages generator, that builds packages for Debian, Arch Linux, Gentoo and any derivative from installers for DRM-free games. Once the packages are built, ./play.it job is done, it is not required to either install or run the games.
​ It could have unexpected results if $PLAYIT_WORKDIR is already set in the user global environment before calling ./play.it. Not due to this call, at this point late in the script the variable value is fully under our control, but earlier in the process when it is initially set.

That is why we include a "PLAYIT_" prefix to this variable, to avoid collisions with anything that might already be set in the user environment.
​ Our research around this game support is public, you can see it on our forge: New game: The Talos Principle
(not the same link than in my first message, despite the similar name)

As it would not be a lot of work to add an extra check on this front, I opened a new issue on our forge to make sure we drop any value for $PLAYIT_WORKDIR coming from the user environment: We should unset $PLAYIT_WORKDIR early

Update

The Talos Principle support is now included in the current stable ./play.it version. The opening post has been updated with links to our website.

Could you please update to the new Gold-edition of the game. Right now it is still pointing to the 1.0 version.

Thanks for the notification, I opened an issue on our forge to keep track of these new installers support: New archives: The Talos Principle

I’ll post here once we have an update ready to be tested. Feel free to remind me about this if there has been no news in a couple days ;)

Here is my reminder.. :)

I already installed the game, by changing the md5-sums in the shell-script. Unfortunately I'll get an error while playing.
Here is the message:
>File signature verification failed (Content Talos/00_All.gro)
So I'm not sure if should try again downloading, if the downloaded setup files are really damaged or if it's simply a different problem, cause I downloaded them by a download-manager and even installed them first by wine. Did see, that it somehow didn't work and installed the same files afterwars via the play.it script..

This is still in my TODO, only delayed a bit because i’m behind a slow Internet access for a couple days ;)

Thanks for reporting the issue you got by the way, I’ll see if I can reproduce it.

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To help you check you installers integrity, here are the MD5 hashes I get:

An update providing support for game version 1.01 is ready to be tested: Game update: The Talos Principle - Add support for new archives

well, I checked the md5 sums, and they are alright..

furthermore I installed the "update" of your script and I still get the same error after a minute of playing it..
To be exactly this is the line in the terminal:
>FTL: File signature verification failed (Content/Talos/00_All.gro)

Or should I reinstall it completely?

Thanks for the feedback, I reported it on our forge and asked some of our contributors if they can reproduce your issue.

I should be able to give it a try myself a couple days from now.

It's working!

Just deinstalled everything and afterwards installed it again with the new script.
It seems like with the new installation somehow I kicked out a corrupt file.

I kept a copy of the old installer, so I should be able to try and replicate that ;)

damn it, got the error again..

can you tell me, where the savegames are placed, when I install games by the play.it scripts?