Trapped in a virtual world of gravity and interactive voxels environments, use your parkour abilities to jump, slide, climb and break your way to escape this prison. But do you really want to leave?



Follow my step-by-step guide on installing, configuring and optimizing Lemma in Linux with PlayOnLinux.

Note: This guide applies to the itch.io demo version of Lemma. Other versions may require additional steps.

Tips & Specs:

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Mint 19 64-bit
PlayOnLinux: 4.3.4
Wine: 4.0

Wine Installation

Click Tools
Select "Manage Wine Versions"



Look for the Wine Version: 4.0
Select it
Click the arrow pointing to the right



Click Next

Downloading Wine



Extracting

Installed



Click (amd64) Tab
Select 4.0
Click the arrow pointing to the right



Downloading Wine 64-bit



Installed



Wine 4.0 32-bit and 64-bit is installed, you can close this window

Download Lemma Demo
https://etodd.itch.io/lemma

PlayOnLinux Setup

Launch PlayOnLinux
Click Install



Click "Install a non-listed program"



Select "Install a program in a new virtual drive"
Click Next



Name the virtual drive: lemma
Click Next



Check all three Options:

• Use another version of Wine
• Configure Wine
• Install some libraries

Click Next



Select Wine 4.0
Click Next



Select "32 bits windows installation"
Click Next



Wine Configuration

Applications Tab
Windows version: Windows XP
Click Apply



Graphics Tab
Check "Automatically capture the mouse in full-screen windows"
Click OK



PlayOnLinux Packages (DLLs, Libraries, Components)

Check the following:

• POL_Install_corefonts
• POL_Install_d3dx10
• POL_Install_d3dx11
• POL_Install_d3dx9
• POL_Install_tahoma

Click Next



Note: All packages should automatically download and install

Do not click Browse
Lemma demo does not have an installer
Click Cancel



Extract Lemma demo

Open the Lemma zip file
Click Extract



Navigate to the virtual drive Program Files
Full path:

Code:

/home/username/.PlayOnLinux/wineprefix/lemma/drive_c/Program Files/

Click Extract



PlayOnLinux Shortcut

Back to PlayOnLinux
Click Configure



Select Lemma on the left side

General Tab
Click "Make a new shortcut from this virtual drive"



Select "Lemma.exe"
Click Next



Name the shortcut: Lemma
Click Next



Select "I don't want to make another shortcut"
Click Next



General Tab
Wine version: Wine 4.0



Note: Click the + to download other versions of Wine. Click the down-arrow to select other versions of Wine

Uninstalling Mono

Wine Tab
Click Control Panel



Double-Click "Add/Remove Programs"



Select "Wine Mono"
Click Remove



Note: If you have two Wine Mono's, remove both of them

Click OK



Installing XNA40 & dotnet40

Install Components Tab
Scroll all the way down to the bottom
Select "xna40"
Click Install



After dotnet40 is installed, you may get an error several times
Click OK



Display Tab
Video memory size: Enter the amount of memory your video card/chip uses



Close Configure

Run Lemma

Select Lemma
Click Run



Note: Click debug to see errors and bugs

Conclusion:
Once I figured out that Mono conflicts with dotnet, I uninstalled mono and installed dotnet. Then Lemma ran perfectly! Its a very interesting game with more than one route to the end of the level. There are secret areas and fun interactive blocks. The demo itsself is amazing and even includes some challenge maps.

Gameplay Video:



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