The Linux version of World of Goo is finally ready for download! It’s available exclusively from our site, in three different packages depending on what your computer likes. (tar.gz, deb, rpm)

If you already got the game from our site, you can use your same download link to get the linux version in addition to your Windows and Mac versions. A huge thanks to Maks Verver for getting this running on linux, and the beta testers for making sure it runs smoothly! The full game and demo versions all available here.

Update: Yes, still DRM free! And works on 64 bit systems too.

Yippe ! The best game of 2008 is finally available for GNU/Linux. This is an awesome step for all game designers and game developers, urging them to develop games for the linux platform. There are plenty of games out there for linux platform, but there is no way they can match up with the windows counterparts. Hope to see this change soon. Thank you guys (2dBoy)!

Bittorrent – Basics

Firstly get a good client such as utorrent or Azureus(java), BitComet(C++) .Other Clients are not recommended!The client(software) handles the torrent file you download from a tracker. There are a number of sites where you can find torrent files. You can even find them using google.

The torrent file is not the file you aim to download, but a small file containing information where the bits of files are are located and information of trackers(read terminology).See – bittorrent sends small bits randomly between users, who in turn sends small bits to other users. Have you ever seen a champagne pyramid? Principally the same – one glass gets filled, and that glass in turn fills up the next glass, which in turn fills the next, and so on. Trickling down, filling all glasses. Bittorrent isn’t linear though, like the champagne example might imply – it randomly sends and receives pieces from random users connected via the same torrent file.

Terminology

Leecher – that’s the guys that don’t have the complete file. Observe that the leecher still is a part of the process and uploads at the same time he/she’s downloading. It might do you good to know that the more you participate in the uploading process, the faster you will get the whole file. Try not to quench the upload speeds too much, it will pay off for you.

Seeder Those that now have the entire file, 100%, and therefore only function to upload to those that haven’t got the whole thing yet.

Peers All users connected to the same torrent. The more peers, the greater the speeds, providing there are enough seeders. If there are thousands of peers and only one seed, you will have to exercise some patience.

Tracker At the center when you start up the torrent. In short – it connects you to other users and is also the thing that sends you messages to your client. It informs you of the health of the tracker at the moment or if, for example, the tracker needs for you to use another client. The latter is clearly put, most errors though are notes of the tracker being bogged down, so just leave the torrent open and again, show some patience.
Complete list of terminologies can be found here

How to download

So – you’ve downloaded and installed a client. And you know you need a torrent file to be able to download a release. Next step! Head over to your favorite BiTorrent website which mind you don’t host files but simply host the .torrent file. Opinions differ but the most favorite torrent indexing websites are ISOhunt , The Pirate Bay(very famous) minonova ,Torrentz . Be careful, most of these websites include pornographic content, mininova being the exception. However the sites are clean, interface wise. To be safe,turn off images. When you find a torrent file online, you download it to your computer – usually by right-clicking the link and “save as”, but some sites also have that automatically on left-click. Recommended to keep the actual .torrent-file on your harddisk, in case you need to restart it.

Client > open > browse to .torrent file > open.(or simply double click the .torrent file and the client will open up)

typical types of .torrent files handled by utorrent. double click to start

Dead simple. Open .torrent file and run, basically. It starts download the minute the tracker has picked up on you being amongst the peers. Most tracker needs AT LEAST a few minutes to pick up, so leave it alone for a while. Return to the client, 15-30 minutes later to check on it.

Observe that the .torrent keep in touch with the various bits of the file you’re downloading, and it’s not done until the client displays you have 100% of the file. Before downloading, check the client’s preferences and set a designated folder. This so that both you and the client know where the file is when done.

FAQ’s

The downside of Bittorrent is limited life-expectancy on the torrent files. If you have started to download a file that was released some time ago, chances are that there are very few peers hooked up to it, or it might even lack a seeder. You can check the client if indeed there are more than 100% of the file distributed between the leechers, which would give you a chance at least to finish it, but usually the speeds are quite slow in cases like these. Sometimes you simply have to give up on it.

The point is – it’s not going faster than what the peers connected to the same file allows are capable to give. Patience, and then some more patience.

Most errors that shows up is notes about the health of the tracker. Usually that it’s bogged down. Leave the torrent as is in the client, and return a bit later to see if things have improved. Some errors are quite clear: Change client, Register on Tracker. In which case you simply do as the message you get tells you, in order to get the file.

Some releasers use something called “superseeding” when releasing. This function serves to “force” users to participate in uploading the pieces they recieve.

Bittorrent is built on everybody helping each other out. It is considered good manners to at least upload as much as you download. Yeah – some have less possibilities to seed, but then try out to help out in other ways. Entering the bittorrent community with some sort of notion to just download – only creates bad will, so please do not demand anything, and give back as much as you can and be helpful.

Here is a a small visual guide to the basic controls. I am using a client called utorrent(see above for download)
main page

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download page

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OLD VERSION…
The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long building his house and laying up supplies for the winter. The grasshopper thinks the ant’s a fool and laughs & dances & plays the summer away. Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed. The grasshopper has no food or shelter so he dies out in the cold.

MODERN VERSION…
The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter. The grasshopper thinks the ant’s a fool and laughs & dances & plays the summer away. Come winter, the shivering grasshopper calls a press conference and demands to know why the ant should be allowed to be warm and well fed while others are cold and starving. NDTV, BBC, CNN show up to provide pictures of the shivering grasshopper next to a video of the ant in his comfortable home with a table filled with food. The World is stunned by the sharp contrast. How can this be that this poor grasshopper is allowed to suffer so? Arundhati Roy stages a demonstration in front of the ant’s house. Medha Patkar goes on a fast along with other grasshoppers demanding that grasshoppers be relocated to warmer climates during winter. Amnesty International and Koffi Annan criticize the Indian Government for not upholding the fundamental rights of the grasshopper. The Internet is flooded with online petitions seeking support to the grasshopper (many promising Heaven and Everlasting Peace for prompt support as against the wrath of God for non-compliance). Opposition MP’s stage a walkout.Left parties call for “Bharat Bandh” in West Bengal and Kerala demanding a Judicial Enquiry.CPM in Kerala immediately passes a law preventing Ants from working hard in the heat so as to bring about equality of poverty among ants and grasshoppers.
Lalu Prasad allocates one free coach to Grasshoppers on all Indian Railway Trains, aptly named as the ‘Grasshopper Rath’.
Finally, the Judicial Committee drafts the Prevention of Terrorism Against Grasshoppers Act [POTAGA]“, with effect from the beginning of the winter. Arjun Singh makes Special Reservation for Grass Hopper in educational Insititutions & in Govt Services.
The ant is fined for failing to comply with POTAGA and, having nothing left to pay his retroactive taxes, his home is confiscated by the Government and handed over to the grasshopper in a ceremony covered by NDTV. Arundhati Roy calls it “a triumph of justice”. Lalu calls it ‘Socialistic Justice’. CPM calls it the ‘revolutionary resurgence of the downtrodden’ Koffi Annan invites the grasshopper to address the UN General Assembly. Many years later…The ant has since migrated to the US and set up a multi billion dollar company in silicon valley.100s of grasshoppers still die of starvation despite reservation somewhere in India …
As a result loosing lot of hard working ants and feeding the grasshoppers, India is still a developing country….. .

Can any one dare to bring India out of this clutches

Just cant help stop laughing !

2. The nicer she is…the quicker u will be dumped!!!!!

3. the more the makeup, worse the looks…

4. “95% of the girls in this world are beautiful. Remaining 5% would always be in your college / office.”……………..100% true

5. The guy standing next to a beautiful girl can never be her Brother.

6. If by any chance the girl you like, likes you too, she will Let you know in about 10 years from now ,when you are committed..

7. the more you ignore a girl, the more she’ll want to be friends With you.

8. Theory of relativity…… The more u run towards a hot chick….the more she goes away from u…

9.Even if you got her out alone… just when you are about to let her know about your feelings…she will spot a long lost friend (I guess from Kumbh ka Mela)

Corollary to rule 1:
The more desperate you are to tell your feelings to a girl on a private chat, the more probability the long lost friend she discovered is a handsome superman, who beats you in everything 9:1

Axiom 1:
The more dedicated you are to the girl, the longer it takes before things work out, but ultimately it will (somesmile for the guys)

10. The day the chick you really like comes and speaks to youWill be the day when-
1. You are dressed badly
2. You forgot to brush your teeth for the first time in your life
3.Have a bad hair day

11. All the good girls are either nuns or married .the rest go Around with u and ruin ur head, money,health and leave u a total wreck.

12. The more seriously u like a girl…the more seriously her dad Will hate u

13. The love you shower a girl with is directly proportional to The number of bullets her dad will be showering at you

Sent to me by Mohammed Muchhala on Orkut