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sosasees2 years ago(+1)

most people (including me) will not install a new program just to unpack your game that you uploaded in RAR format, because there’s 100 more games that they can already unpackage because they’re in the ZIP format, which can be unpackaged in any OS without having to install anything.

an alternate format like 7Z or RAR or TAR or TAR.GZ or TAR.BZ2 should not be the only way to download your game, but a bonus so that people who already have the right program can download the game faster than the standard ZIP version.

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OtherlandsGD2 years ago

Thank you for letting me know, it is good to know to fix it   (-_-")  I had not noticed, I uploaded it in a zip, so you can try to play ...

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sosasees2 years ago (1 edit)

you can learn from your mistakes for the future.

according to the jam rules, you cannot change uploadings (compared to how they were during the jam) while it’s voting time.

this means that you can’t add the ZIP version now, but you can in 2 hours because voting time is about to end.

reply when you have uploaded the ZIP version for Linux. on Linux a ZIP version is even more important than on Windows, because when ‘unrar’ isn’t in the package manager (like in Debian, the Linux variant that i use), it’s Much harder to find and install than WinRAR on Windows.

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OtherlandsGD2 years ago(+1)

Ready

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sosasees2 years ago

I was busy so i could not play the game as soon as i would’ve liked, but now that i have time to play the game:

I could not play the game because there’s no 64-Bit version (only 32-Bit). While 64-Bit Windows can run 32-Bit Windows programs, 64-Bit Linux cannot run 32-Bit Linux programs.

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