![]() "Whenever I go see my favorite bands or I hear a piece of Beethoven when I go to the concert hall, it is just so immediately different and electric because you have these people that are putting themselves out there and risking themselves. "I think live-ness in itself changes everything in a really amazing way," Curry said. ![]() So what was the impetus for Dear Esther Live in the first place? How does a game benefit when you take the audience out of the player's role and put them in a literal audience instead? It's just been so overwhelmingly meaningful, I think, for people as an experience, which is really beautiful as a composer to see that." Hopefully it will just be a wonderful, interactive, beautiful, profound experience, which is what has happened for audience members so far. I suppose there are other reductive terms like chic lit in novels, so it's not just the games industry that suffers from it. "I think it's really reductive and shows to me how the games industry is usually rather unable to deal with quality and complex narrative within a genre. ![]() "I don't really like the term walking simulator anyway, to be honest," Curry said. Whenever I go see my favorite bands or I hear a piece of Beethoven when I go to the concert hall, it is just so immediately different and electric" "I think live-ness in itself changes everything in a really amazing way. The reaction to those performances convinced The Chinese Room to take the show on the road with a Dear Esther Live UK tour that will see a dozen shows from November through February.ĭear Esther composer and The Chinese Room co-founder Jessica Curry recently spoke to about Dear Esther Live, and to her eternal credit, did not immediately hang up on us when we asked if this was a walking simulator simulator. The production has been staged twice so far to glowing reviews, once at the Barbican in London last October and again at the London Games Festival. Dear Esther Live, on the other hand, is not a game (although it contains one).ĭear Esther Live is a concert event where a person plays the game in its entirety for an audience with live musical and vocal accompaniment on cue with the playthrough. No problems and great performance.It's been more than five years since Dear Esther launched, sparking innumerable unnecessary debates about whether or not the game was, in fact, a game. So I decided to try it in PlayOnLinux and it worked perfectly in a 32-bit virtual drive. Some of these older libraries are no longer supported and are very difficult to setup. I spent over an hour trying to find the right libraries, install them or link to newer one's and it was too confusing. Initially I tested the native Linux version from Humble Bundle and there were always dependencies missing. Low settings = Less detail, higher frame rates High settings = More detail, lower frame rates Video Memory Size: Select the size of Memory your video card/chip uses Click the down-arrow to select other versions of wine Note: Click the + to download other versions of Wine. This fixes any missing font problems and the Store problem (Windows needs to be set as Windows XP) Select "I don't want to make another shortcut" Note: All packages will automatically download and install PlayOnLinux Packages (Libraries, Components, DLL's) Select "Install a program in a new virtual drive"Ĭheck: Automatically capture the mouse in full-screen windows It will automatically install Linux Steam Wine 2.0.3 is installed and you can close this window To learn more about PlayOnLinux and Wine configuration, see the online manual: PlayOnLinux Explained Try SteamPlay before using this guide as Valve now uses a fork of Wine called Proton and should run most Windows games. ![]() Other versions may require additional steps. Note: This guide applies to the Steam version of Dear Esther. Who is your character on this remote island?Įxplore an abandoned island and cave systems with poetic narration and admire the exquisite landscapes.įollow my step-by-step guide on installing, configuring and optimizing Dear Esther in Linux with PlayOnLinux. Dear Esther is the most graphically beautiful game made in the source engine. ![]()
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