geow2 1.1.1

• Install on the Steam Deck and Linux with Flatpak, from
  geow2.com/flatpak: one install, updates
  through Discover or flatpak update, and the setup inside the game
  makes the data folder from your copy of the game. Each release also
  carries the Flatpak as a single file.

You need your own copy of the Xbox Live Arcade game: the first start asks for it and makes the data folder (see "Getting started" in the README).

• Windows: x64, code-signed. Unzip and run geow2.exe.
• macOS: universal (Apple silicon and Intel), macOS 11 or later, signed and notarized. Unzip and open geow2.app.
• Linux: x86-64, needs a Vulkan driver. Unpack and run geow2.
• Steam Deck and Linux, Flatpak: install from https://geow2.com/flatpak/ (updates come through Discover or flatpak update). The .flatpak file is the same app as a single file. The -flatpak-repo archive is what geow2.com serves.

Verify a download: sha256sum -c SHA256SUMS --ignore-missing, or gh attestation verify <file> -R techknight/geow2.

geow2 1.1.0

• Online scores, optional: with a score server for your group of friends
  (geow2-scores, free to
  run on Cloudflare), your high scores, unlocked modes and achievements
  follow you between your devices, the leaderboards show the group's
  boards (the original's Friends and My score views, X to switch), and
  your name is the one you chose. Help and options, Online scores: enter
  the server's address and pair the device by scanning a QR code with
  your phone. --online-pair and --online-sync do the same from a
  terminal.
• Every finished game is kept in scores.log, so progress from two
  devices can be combined: geow2 --merge-profile <the other device's profile folder> adds its games, unlocks and achievements.
• The main menu's last item reads "Quit" (the game's own word for it, in
  every language) in place of "Return to arcade".
• After a game, the mode select menu keeps the mode just played selected,
  as the original does, rather than going back to Deadline.
• Setup inside the game: when there is no data folder, geow2 asks for
  your copy of the game (the package file or an extracted folder) and
  makes the data folder itself, with a progress bar. It works with a
  gamepad, so it can be done on a Steam Deck. geow2-extract still
  works as before.
• On Windows the game finds ffmpeg.exe next to itself, and on a Mac
  Homebrew's FFmpeg even when started from the Finder.
• Linux: an optional bin/ and share/ install layout (GEOW2_UNIX_LAYOUT)
  with a desktop entry, AppStream metainfo and icons under the app ID
  com.geow2.geow2, which the window now reports.

You need your own copy of the Xbox Live Arcade game: the first start asks for it and makes the data folder (see "Getting started" in the README).

• Windows: x64, code-signed. Unzip and run geow2.exe.
• macOS: universal (Apple silicon and Intel), macOS 11 or later, signed and notarized. Unzip and open geow2.app.
• Linux: x86-64, needs a Vulkan driver. Unpack and run geow2.

Verify a download: sha256sum -c SHA256SUMS --ignore-missing, or gh attestation verify <file> -R techknight/geow2.

geow2 1.0.0

The first release.

• All six modes of Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved 2 (Deadline, King,
  Evolved, Pacifism, Waves, Sequence) with their enemies, the grid,
  particles, geoms and the multiplier, bombs and lives, the HUD, and the
  original's sound engine, music and reverb.
• The front end: menus, rules screens, help and options, results,
  unlocking the modes, local score boards and local achievements with
  the original icons.
• Local multiplayer for up to four players: versus and co-op, teams and
  copilots, power-ups.
• Windows, macOS (Apple Silicon and Intel) and Linux, including the
  Steam Deck; any resolution, or the original's exact 1280x720 frame;
  gamepads and keyboard.
• geow2-extract turns your own copy of the game into the data folder.

You need your own copy of the Xbox Live Arcade game: see "Getting started" in the README to make the data folder with geow2-extract.

• Windows: x64, code-signed. Unzip and run geow2.exe.
• macOS: universal (Apple silicon and Intel), macOS 11 or later, signed and notarized. Unzip and open geow2.app.
• Linux: x86-64, needs a Vulkan driver. Unpack and run geow2.

Verify a download: sha256sum -c SHA256SUMS --ignore-missing, or gh attestation verify <file> -R techknight/geow2.