I thought I had posted this earlier, but it turns out I hadn’t. So, it’s here now

Meteoroids

Meteoroids is a simple game (the premise being an homage to the classic Asteroids-based titles), programmed in Processing. Audio is provided via ChucK, and input is provided by a Nintendo Wiimote via OSC commands generated from an extension of Darwiin Remote.

To explain more, here’s a short video

Attempting to fix this by forcing the install of the 32-bit version of uqm doesn’t work, because for some reason then apt won’t recognise that it is installed and complain that uqm-content has unmet dependencies. So here’s the official recommendation from me:

1. Install uqm normally with the package manager.
2. Download the i386 .debs, extract them and overwrite the binary files from uqm (there are two of them).
3. Install ia32-libs-sdl for the 32-bit versions of the libraries it depends on.

… and it should work perfectly. If you want voice-overs and music (yes!), head to the UQM download page, and download the second two files listed under “Content” (you already have the first). These are in fact just renamed zip files, so unzip them to /usr/share/games/uqm/content/ and you’re good to go.

And the game? Excellent. This is much better than the last game I bought—Civilization IV.