{"id":60,"date":"2013-07-02T09:02:54","date_gmt":"2013-07-02T09:02:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.visionriders.com\/blog\/?p=60"},"modified":"2013-09-14T16:24:54","modified_gmt":"2013-09-14T16:24:54","slug":"playing-another-star-in-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.visionriders.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/playing-another-star-in-linux\/","title":{"rendered":"Playing Another Star in Linux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you have the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mono-project.com\">Mono Framework<\/a> installed, the good news is that Another Star is fully playable in Linux (and should be on a Mac as well, but I currently have no way of testing it). The bad news is that you might have to jump through an extra hoop to make it work.<\/p>\n<p>When a program looks for files, it does so in relation to what&#8217;s called the &#8220;current directory&#8221;. In Windows, this is whatever folder the program&#8217;s executable file was launched from. But in Linux, it&#8217;s usually the home directory. Unfortunately, the &#8220;leaked&#8221; build of Another Star does not take this into account which will cause the game to fail.<\/p>\n<p><strong>To get around this<\/strong>, the easiest thing to do is copy Another Star&#8217;s &#8220;Data&#8221; folder to the home directory. You can delete it whenever you&#8217;re done with it without affecting your saved games, since those will always be in your documents folder no matter the platform. Alternatively, you can change the current directory, but that&#8217;s beyond the scope of this post. If you&#8217;re using Linux and this sounds like a hassle (it is), don&#8217;t worry. It&#8217;ll be fixed in the final version of the game.<\/p>\n<p>Let me know how you&#8217;re enjoying the game, and if you run into any problems. It still has a long way to go before it&#8217;s finished and balanced, but I hope you&#8217;re all having fun with it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you have the Mono Framework installed, the good news is that Another Star is fully playable in Linux (and should be on a Mac as well, but I currently have no way of testing it). The bad news is that you might have to jump through an extra hoop to make it work. When [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-another-star"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visionriders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visionriders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visionriders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visionriders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visionriders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.visionriders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":178,"href":"https:\/\/www.visionriders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions\/178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visionriders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visionriders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visionriders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}