Hello,
I just bought and installed the game on Ubuntu 13.10 64bits, and while the Main screen launches, it seems that clicking the "New Colony" button has no effect. The other buttons seem to work ("Load" opens an empty rectangle, "Options" an option menu, and "Quit to OS" exits the game, so it is fine...), so it's not just a matter of having a blank screen.
Game version : 0.0.254 (Compiled nov. 7 2013)
OS : Ubuntu 13.10 64 bits
Processor : Intel Core i7-4500U CPU @ 1.80GHz × 4
RAM : 8 Gb
Graphic card : Intel Haswell Mobile // NVIDIA GeForce GT 740M 2 Gb
Okay, just found this topic : http://ludeon.com/forums/index.php?topic=540.msg6735#msg6735
And it solved my problem :)
Np at all (-: Have fun playing
Was just about to reply with the solution for you.