Thanks for the information ssokolow. That does help alleviate the issue somewhat.

I have gone to the trouble of creating two distinct custom launchers for the GOG.com version. One is a command-line prompt using BASH and the other is a graphical launcher using Zenity.

http://www.blood-wiki.org/index.php/Installation#Custom_GOG.com_Launchers [External Link]

I can't help but feel that I have been doing a lot of their own work for them though.

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So mixed feelings so far using the Linux tarball.

The good news: the game launches fine, with cutscenes and music, and seems faster than my own custom configuration.

The bad news: the CD Music tracks only play once and then stop, and it does not have a selection screen for Cryptic Passage like Shadow Warrior does for its expansions. It does not seem to provide me with any easy way of launching it.

The latter is actually pretty bad. I honestly was expecting better than this, based on my previous experiences with some of their other Build engine game wrappers.

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Full Disclaimer: I am the co-founder and head moderator of the Blood Wiki.
http://www.blood-wiki.org/index.php/Main_Page [External Link]

So of course I am going to bristle a bit at the suggestion that the "control scheme is pretty bad". For what the game is and how it plays the control scheme is perfectly suitable, you just have to break out of the mouselook paradigm ingrained in your head by playing too many modern shooters. Same thing with the difficulty curve. Blood does take some investment, but if you do take the time to take it seriously it really does deserves its place as one of the greatest shooter games of all time. It is better than Duke Nukem.

Honestly though, I am still a little surprised that it showed up for Linux, considering how difficult it was to get Blood onto GOG.com in the first place.

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Maybe Comandante oardo should take a gander at this:
http://frozenbyte.com/help_humble/linuxfaq.html [External Link]

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Speaking of such things, what is the current state of the Enchanted Edition?

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Quoting: ShmerlDOSbox configuration is pretty trivial. So I usually prefer to use my system DOSbox with GOG games, instead of the bundled one.

Even though I do often use the convenience of the pre-bundled Dosbox wrappers, I would still prefer it if GOG would allow me to also download an unmodified version of the games for this exact reason. Some of us also still have old DOS machines lying around as well.

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In addition to the Linux version of the remake, they are now also selling a Linux wrapper for the original game on GOG.com as well:
http://www.gog.com/game/shadow_warrior_complete [External Link]

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Dark Forces is also on sale for Linux:
http://www.gog.com/game/star_wars_dark_forces [External Link]

And while not counting as a Linux sale, you can also get Jedi Outcast and Jedi Academy to use in a source port thanks to Raven's source code release:
http://www.gog.com/game/star_wars_jedi_knight_ii_jedi_outcast [External Link]
http://www.gog.com/game/star_wars_jedi_knight_jedi_academy [External Link]

So you can really get your fill of Star Wars games from GOG at the moment.

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Welcome to GoL amelcher. Always glad to see actual developers show up on here.

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The update has not reached Humble yet. Still listing the latest version as being from April 9th.

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