I tried running the game on Debian testing. It just produces black screen for me on start and nothing else is happening. I tried removing some bundled libs, so it would use system ones instead, but that didn't help.

The log says:

Shutting down Allegro due to signal #2

UPDATE:

Oh, it started, it just takes almost 30 seconds of black screen first...

UPDATE2:

The game runs, but mouse lag is horrible: https://github.com/adventuregamestudio/ags/issues/162

Can you please rebuild the game with this patch: https://github.com/liballeg/allegro5/pull/984

From the readme.txt file:

Q) On Linux, my mouse cursor movement is jerky and/or slow.

A) If you're experiencing jerky or slow mouse cursor movement and you're using a high DPI mouse, this can be corrected by adding a line to ~/.local/share/ags/Mage's Initiation/acsetup.cfg using a text editor. (Make sure you're editing the acsetup.cfg file in the savegames folder and not the game's root folder).

In the [mouse] section, add the line: control=never

This should eliminate the mouse lag. It causes AGS to use the system input directly to control the mouse position instead of passing it through a library.

If that doesn't fix it, you''ll either have to use a non-high-DPI mouse (or reduce the mouse's polling rate to 125 and disabling acceleration). Otherwise, wait for Allegro to patch their library (which they've promised to do soon) so we can roll it into a future update.

One other thing might be worth trying, would be to change the speed=1 value in the [mouse] section from 1 to 2. That's our only workaround in the AGS engine.

If experiencing this issue on Windows, you might also try running winsetup.exe and altering the mouse speed settings there.

Thanks for the tips, that didn't help unfortunately. I'll wait for the updated build or will try building ags myself with Allegro patch if I have time.

Do you have any idea why it takes 30 seconds for the game to start though? Not a super breaking issue, but a bit annoying.

Graphics: Sapphire Pulse AMD Vega 56 / Mesa 18.3.2.

I'm really not sure why it takes your system 30 seconds to start the game. We haven't had any other reports of this happening on Linux systems.

We're compiling a new version for SteamOS next week, which might shed some light on what the issue might be, but I'm chalking it up to some issue with your system.

Linux is an absolute wild west. Every single machine is different, every single Linux distribution is different. On some systems, discrepancies like this are bound to occur, unfortunately.

Latest update fixes the mouse lag, thanks!