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Regarding downloads

A topic by gNogr created 57 days ago Views: 106 Replies: 1
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I've made my game in pico-8. When I made my submission, I thought the only way to export my game was as an html file which then could be downloaded and opened by a judge in the browser of their choice in order to play the game. This is the procedure described in the install instructions as of until an hour ago, and it's still there.

I have discovered you can indeed export pico8 cartridges in a way they can be executed as a desktop program. I have updated my listed files to include the windows, linux and osx builds pico8 generated for me. The previous zip file is still there, although I renamed it to reflect it is only playable via an webbrowser.

My only question is is everything ok with this? I don't necessarily feel like I broke any rule, since you could always download the files I offered and play the game through them, but considering there's a security concern with game downloads I feel like I needed to disclose the inclusion of these builds to someone, hence this post here.

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Technically you should've been disqualified for not including a standalone exe release to begin with, but you would've been re-qualified for adding the standalone build now so it doesn't really matter.