New release for Linux
There is now a regular binary release for Linux rather than a Flatpak installer. If you already have the Flatpak version and want to continue using it then you can, and it will have access to the same updates as everyone else. However, I will not update the Flatpak installer when it breaks as a result of changes outside of my control at some point in the future.
This change has been done for two main reasons:
- Eliminating an error that occurs in the Flatpak version after users update their graphics driver, requiring a reinstall of the game.
- To reduce maintenance and simplify the process of generating releases.
The decision to use Flatpak was originally driven by uncertainty about which systems an OpenJDK binary would run on. The new binary release uses Azul Zulu builds, which currently lists the officially supported operating systems as: RHEL 9.x, RHEL 8.x, RHEL 7.x, SLES 15, SLES 12, CentOS Stream, Ubuntu 22.04, Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 18.04, Debian 11, Debian 10, Wind River 8.x, Alpine Linux 3.11 or later, and Amazon Linux 2023. In practice I have not found a contemporary distribution they do not run on, and I have verified that they run on systems at least as old as Ubuntu 13.04 (2013) and Fedora 11 (2012), which are the oldest I've tested the game on to begin with.
Files
Get Sulphur Nimbus: Hel's Elixir
Sulphur Nimbus: Hel's Elixir
Be a hippogriff in this momentum-based flying adventure game
| Status | Released |
| Author | Oddwarg |
| Genre | Adventure |
| Tags | 3D, 3D Platformer, Action-Adventure, Cute, Dark, Difficult, Open Source, Physics, pony, Third Person |
| Languages | English |
| Accessibility | Configurable controls, Interactive tutorial |
More posts
- New release for Windows & Release 130Feb 21, 2024
- Release 121-126Mar 18, 2022
- Release 120Apr 16, 2021
- Release 119Sep 17, 2020
- Release 118Sep 17, 2020
- Release 117Apr 12, 2020
- Release 114-116Apr 03, 2020
- Release 112 & 113Mar 20, 2020
- Release 110 & 111Mar 01, 2020
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Incidentally the binary release works much better with the itch app on Linux.
If you want to, you can transfer your saves by copying the save directory from one game directory to the other. By default, the flatpak saves are at:
and by default the itch app saves are at:
where ~ is your home directory, as is normal. The directories starting with a period (.) are hidden in most file managers. You can likely toggle their visibility with the hotkey Ctrl-H.
If you downladed it without the itch app, then the save directory goes inside the game directory wherever you extracted the archive.
The work I did on the flatpak release is available here in case it is of interest to anyone