NeverBall: Game in which you must tilt the ground to manipulate a ball

We continue to expand our catalog of Games, because in our Linux repositories there are many games available, hence there is always something interesting to write about. There are a lot of sites on the Internet that review games of all kinds, although in Linux we do not have games with almost supernatural quality of graphics and textures, we do have many games (in repositories or on Steam) that can entertain us, here in DesdeLinux We have published approximately 100 articles related to games on Linux, this is one more for the collection :)

This time I want to tell you about a game called NeverballIt basically tries to tilt or rotate the ground or surface on which a ball is located, making that ball go towards some coins.

 Installation

To install Neverball look for the package with the same name in the repository and proceed to install it. For example:

In distros like Debian, Ubuntu or derivatives it would be:

sudo apt-get install neverball

In distros like ArchLinux or others that use pacman:

sudo pacman -S neverball

Neverball

Once installed you can find it and run it in the applications menu, look in Games and then Neverball, the menu that I show above in the image will appear.

There they can start playing, watch gameplay videos, help, settings, and exit. For example, let's enter Settings:

There we can change the resolution of the game window (or put it in full screen directly), a little the details or quality of textures, music, the name of the player and the type of ball or ball. Here I want to stop for a moment, through this option we can change the ball with which we will play, we have available a Ghost (like those in the pacman game), Saturn, Planet Earth, a Reactor, etc. Here is a screenshot of the Reactor:

Once inside the game we must move the ground or surface (using the mouse) to bring the ball to the coins, just as indicated in this image:

Now, it will seem that moving the surface to take the ball to where we want is a simple task ... well, think again, it is not as simple as it seems, especially when the levels begin to get complicated and there is no protection on the edge, or that is, we can fall into the void and we must start again:

End

So far the post of this game. It is something different from what (at least I) are used to, normally we would have to move the ball with the controls to reach the coins, while in this game we must with the controls move the surface so that by friction, gravity and I don't know ... something else, move the ball and reach for the coins.

I hope you find it interesting, this is just another game available in our repositories 😉

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