KAG Game window doesn't show up

Hi all,
I've got a problem with freshly downloaded game startup. It simply doesn't.
- No errors on the console
- First update worked perfectly
- The frame of the game window flashes and disappears instantly
- It doesn't actually exit or crash - just stays there until it's killed
- Nothing interesting in the logs and the console output is very boring

Any ideas how to debug it further?

Code:

Engine (build: 1215 version: 0.97)
Creating video device...
Irrlicht Engine version 1.8.0-alpha
Linux 3.16.1-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Aug 14 07:40:19 CEST 2014 x86_64
Using renderer: OpenGL 3.0
Mesa DRI Intel(R) Ivybridge Mobile x86/MMX/SSE2: Intel Open Source Technology Center
OpenGL driver version is 1.2 or better.
GLSL version: 1.3
Loaded texture: /home/viraptor/Downloads/kagbeta-linux32-client/Base/GUI/DarkMicroStone.png
Loaded texture: /home/viraptor/Downloads/kagbeta-linux32-client/Base/GUI/BorderStone.png
Loaded texture: /home/viraptor/Downloads/kagbeta-linux32-client/Base/GUI/SimpleStone.png
Loaded texture: /home/viraptor/Downloads/kagbeta-linux32-client/Base/GUI/FramedStone.png
Loaded texture: /home/viraptor/Downloads/kagbeta-linux32-client/Base/GUI/PolishedStone.png
Loaded texture: /home/viraptor/Downloads/kagbeta-linux32-client/Base/GUI/paper_tiles.png
Loaded texture: /home/viraptor/Downloads/kagbeta-linux32-client/Base/GUI/Bubble.png
Loaded texture: /home/viraptor/Downloads/kagbeta-linux32-client/Base/GUI/MenuItems.png
Loaded texture: /home/viraptor/Downloads/kagbeta-linux32-client/Base/GUI/title.png
Loaded texture: /home/viraptor/Downloads/kagbeta-linux32-client/Base/GUI/Starter_Gradient.png
Downloading checksums from http://update.kag2d.com/1/linux32-client-release/App/version.txt

Downloading http://update.kag2d.com/1/linux32-client-release/App/version.txt...
file Downloads/App/version.txt
Removing unused/moved files in ./Base

Version file the same (key matches)

Downloading http://www.rssitfor.me/getrss?name=kag_news...
file Downloads/kag_news
^CCtrl+C detected

 

And after some research:
- nolauncher gets more results
- the lib dependencies are being silly, because KAG wants libpng15, but local freetype wants libpng16 - conflicting symbols, yay!

does anyone know how to resolve this on arch?

 

Borrowing this thread as i have the same issue... I'm trying to run it on Ubuntu 14.04 but when i click Play in the launcher, it just crashes.

I installed libpng15 as you said but it still complains about "incompatible libpng version blah blah blah..."

--- Double Post Merged, Oct 25, 2014, Original Post Date: Oct 25, 2014 ---

Never mind, installed through steam instead and it worked.