Comments on: Braid is now available in the Ubuntu Software Center.

By: Denis

Denis — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 07:42:35 +0000

Anyone know if it this will run on Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid ? it’s LTS so I’m waiting fore next point release of 12.04 to upgrade (as per Ubuntu recommendation). The software center in 10.04 does not include it, can I purchase and download from elsewhere ?

By: Ewan

Ewan — Sat, 09 Jun 2012 18:23:04 +0000

I cannot get this working on ubuntu even though it works fine on the same computers with windows, I am just not going to boot into windows to play braid as I rarely use it. It installs and when I run it nothing happens.

By: jbeilin

jbeilin — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 20:13:33 +0000

There are paid downloads in the Ubuntu Software Center. The price is the same there as anywhere else.

By: Jason Riot

Jason Riot — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 07:10:18 +0000

Wait… does this mean braid is free for unbuntu?!

By: Mateusz

Mateusz — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 19:11:39 +0000

Hi Jonathan,

I just wanted to let you know about Gameolith a gamestore only for Linux. If you publish Braid there it will let people running distribiutions other than Ubuntu play it.

You can read about their terms of agreement here:

http://gme.li/qAQ3pF

By: Danni Coy

Danni Coy — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 04:52:41 +0000

I got this as part of the humble bundle and have really been enjoying it.
I did have some issues with audio – I am not sure where to report it but here are my findings.

I am running Kubuntu Natty Narwal.
Sound is going to my firewire soundcard via pulse-audio and then jack. Sound was slightly choppy through most of the game and extremely bad when manipulating the puzzle pieces (something in that code is a latency killer). I have since upgraded to a low-latency version of the kernel (3.0.0-8-lowlatency) and the situation has very much improved. Hope that helps

By: T_U

T_U — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 00:54:00 +0000

Great ! Got it 🙂 Thanks for supporting Linux !

Working perfectly (ubuntu 11.04, nvidia board).

Considering drivers quality is very variable, a demo version would be useful 🙂

By: G

Sun, 07 Aug 2011 03:57:18 +0000

Running Braid on Linux Mint / Ubuntu / Debian AMD64 (64-bit) doesn’t work without “libc6-i386” package

It took me a while to figure this out and since its not documented anywhere, I figured I would spam it onto here, basically the Braid installer will fail to run on AMD64 without the i386 libc6 compatibility libraries installed, this was not obvious to me and took about 45 minutes to get sorted out. Hopefully, this can help those who couldn’t make it past the problem on their own.

Cheers,

-G

# chmod a+x braid-linux-build2.run.bin

# ./braid-linux-build2.run.bin
-bash: ./braid-linux-build2.run.bin: No such file or directory

# file ./braid-linux-build2.run.bin
sudo ./braid-linux-build2.run.bin: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.8, stripped

## ldd does not work on 32-bit binaries when running on a 64-bit system
# strings ./braid-linux-build2.run.bin | grep lib
/lib/ld-linux.so.2
libdl.so.2
libm.so.6
libc.so.6
__libc_start_main

sudo aptitude install libc6-i386 # packages.ubuntu.com says /lib/ld-linux.so.2 is provided by libc6-i386 on AMD64

sudo ./braid-linux-build2.run.bin # run as root to install in /usr/local/games or another path outside home directory for multi-user systems.

By: Marcin

Marcin — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 06:57:27 +0000

Thank you!

The game was awesome and worked perfectly in Ubuntu 11.04.

Marcin

By: Simon Birkby

Simon Birkby — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 17:29:08 +0000

Changing video card to an ATI RV710 (Radeon HD4350) solved the problem.