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Posted September 28, 2016
There will be bloody good times.

<span class="bold">Turmoil</span>, a lighthearted strategy/management game where you drill hard on your way to becoming a turn-of-the-19th-century oil tycoon, is now available for Windows, Mac, and Linux, DRM-free on GOG.com, with a 30% launch discount.

We've all heard the stories, seen the ghost-towns, and watched the Oscar-winning drama. But who knew that participating in the oil business of 1899 America can be as enjoyable as it can be messy! As you grow your business and invest your earnings in the local economy, your town will also grow, competition will become more severe, and you'll need to lease more land in the auction house to keep looking for new oil wells. Hit some hard rock, a pocket of gas, or even ice? You can't give up now or the other prospectors will crush you! Buy better tools, upgrade your production line, or grease some palms in the local saloon - whatever it takes to keep you ahead of the game! Perhaps one day you might reach the wealth and status required to become the new mayor or at least the most powerful oil baron in the area.

Set up the perfect oil-drilling business and turn a huge profit out of the ensuing <span class="bold">Turmoil</span>, DRM-free on GOG.com.
The 30% discount will last until October 5, 9:59 AM UTC.


https://www.youtube.com/embed/q6NzPlBpSaU
Post edited September 28, 2016 by maladr0Id
Posted September 28, 2016
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Gamious: It's neither of those. :) Yes, the screen is a flat slice of earth. But in Turmoil you don't dig indefinitely. You play each 'level' for a set amount of time. So you have to make tough decisions about how to use your money to find and dig up oil, all the while managing storage and selling off to the highest bidder.
Ah, thanks! That's useful info. Sounds more compelling than endless expansion. On to the wishlist it goes for now, mostly because I already have too many games in progress. :)

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Gamious: In case you missed the answer earlier:
Turmoil was made in GameMaker and only builds in 32 bit. The game does work fine for 64 bit machines. We don't use a lot of RAM so it should not make a difference.
Okay, so Linux can run both build types, just like Windows. I can see why someone would prefer the higher memory space for games, but not why it would be enough of a factor to completely rule out buying a specific game. I don't see a lot of Windows users caring about it either way here, but perhaps most Windows games already default to the higher space. I'm sure they do for graphic-intensive titles.
Posted September 28, 2016
Looks cool. Might go for it. Wishlisted in any case.

The "vibe" reminds me quite a lot of 1983's Multi-Use Labor Element (real name M.U.L.E.), a game for which, back then, me and some friends poured tons of hours into. Great fun amd memories :)
Posted September 28, 2016
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Martek: Looks cool. Might go for it. Wishlisted in any case.

The "vibe" reminds me quite a lot of 1983's Multi-Use Labor Element (real name M.U.L.E.), a game for which, back then, me and some friends poured tons of hours into. Great fun amd memories :)
Our games do have a certain old school quality I guess. :) Mainly because we like to keep it simple but with a possibility of diving into a game and finding hidden levels under the surface,
Posted September 28, 2016
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Matruchus: Do you have plans to update the Linux build with a 64bit version?
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Experiment513: Why are you so obsessed with 64-bit versions? :)
Saddly Linux Mint 17.3 64bit version has broken 32 bit dependencies so its nearly imposiblle for me to get a 32bit Linux version working. Plus trying to install these dependecies results in os corruption and reinstall. So that's why I ask about a 64bit version.
Posted September 28, 2016
I bought it aswell, i saw it a while ago on Steam , and i was curious about it , when i noticed GOG had it on sale ... i instabought it.
Posted September 28, 2016
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Experiment513: Why are you so obsessed with 64-bit versions? :)
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Matruchus: Saddly Linux Mint 17.3 64bit version has broken 32 bit dependencies so its nearly imposiblle for me to get a 32bit Linux version working. Plus trying to install these dependecies results in os corruption and reinstall. So that's why I ask about a 64bit version.
I don't know much about Linux OS's, but can you upgrade to Mint 18 or switch to one that we have as minimum specs?
Posted September 28, 2016
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Matruchus: Saddly Linux Mint 17.3 64bit version has broken 32 bit dependencies so its nearly imposiblle for me to get a 32bit Linux version working. Plus trying to install these dependecies results in os corruption and reinstall. So that's why I ask about a 64bit version.
Ah, that makes sense then. It's not a matter of optimisation for you so much as it is basically just working. Hopefully Mint will work this out, it was a good OS last time I used it. I would have to imagine that a bug that serious is locking their users out of a lot of applications.
Posted September 28, 2016
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IAmSinistar: I have a soft spot for things Deadwood-era too. :)
Quite the opposite for me; I don't like that era very much (I guess you meant the oil rush era, right?) and I tend to be very very picky on games taking place during that era, but somehow Turmoil ticks all the right boxes for me -- the artstyle is very clean, the soundtrack sounds good and the gameplay is promising even though it is on the simple(r) side. Thankfully it's available on Linux too, since it is a game I'd rather play on my laptop while lounging. :)
Posted September 28, 2016
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Celton88: I thought the same. Doesn't mean it can't be a good game, but makes me want to investigate more before dropping money on it.
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Smannesman: No it doesn't, which is why I didn't say it. ;)
It's a bit too expensive for me at the moment, but it looks like it might be interesting.
For sure :-)
Posted September 28, 2016
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Vythonaut: Quite the opposite for me; I don't like that era very much (I guess you meant the oil rush era, right?)
More the Gold Rush era, but they overlap pretty significantly. :)
Posted September 28, 2016
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Vythonaut: Quite the opposite for me; I don't like that era very much (I guess you meant the oil rush era, right?)
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IAmSinistar: More the Gold Rush era, but they overlap pretty significantly. :)
Ahhh alright then -- my knowledge of American history is pretty much nonexistent. Let's say I know only the bare essentials. :P
Posted September 28, 2016
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Experiment513: Why are you so obsessed with 64-bit versions? :)
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Matruchus: Saddly Linux Mint 17.3 64bit version has broken 32 bit dependencies so its nearly imposiblle for me to get a 32bit Linux version working. Plus trying to install these dependecies results in os corruption and reinstall. So that's why I ask about a 64bit version.
Hi Matruchus,

I don't know how you tried to resolve dependencies, but there's an exploit. The system first searches locally for the required libraries and falls back to system-wide libraries if it doesn't find them. By keeping the libraries local to the application, your system is safe. The worst thing, which could happen is the application to crash.

First of all I don't own Turmoil and I have upgraded to Mint 18 64-bit since the end of June. But I still have the same problems running some 32-bit games on Mint 18 as I had on 17.3.

Run the start.sh script (or the executable binary) from terminal. The game will exit with a message of the first library dependency missing. You need to do this and the following steps many times, until you have resolve all the issues.

Search and download the deb packages for the required libraries. Since Mint is a Debian derivative, search here first for a general library package and then for Ubuntu if it's not present for Debian. Check the release closer to your Mint (Debian 8 and Ubuntu 14.04) first. Extract the package's contents and copy the missing library files (generally a shared object file .so and and a soft link to it) to the games folder (if there is a game and/or lib folder better place them there).

Keep a copy of the libraries, since you will need them for many games. Doing this process, I've been able to run all my GOG and Humble Bundle Linux games on Mint 17.3 and now 18.

I found an old screenshot of my Mint 17.3 desktop with GOG games installed here. All of them run on Mint 17.3 64bit by resolving dependencies the way above.

I was trying to keep the post as sort as possible. Let me know if you need more help.
Post edited September 28, 2016 by vanchann
Posted September 28, 2016
Looks like this is right up my alley. And bought.
Posted September 28, 2016
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Vythonaut: Ahhh alright then -- my knowledge of American history is pretty much nonexistent. Let's say I know only the bare essentials. :P
Seeing as what I know about Greek history ends roughly in the sword-and-sandals era, you're doing fine by comparison. ;)
Posted September 28, 2016
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IAmSinistar: Seeing as what I know about Greek history ends roughly in the sword-and-sandals era, you're doing fine by comparison. ;)
Haha, thanks! :P
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