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Love and Corruption

A new world to explore and discover, full of love and corruption. · By Airell

Why is it always RAR?

A topic by travisz created Mar 08, 2023 Views: 2,167 Replies: 22
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some of us can't run RAR. This is why I wish more people ran their programs through a zip file. Fewer problems and more people could actually download and enjoy your game...

Make of this advice what you will. Try uploading a zip version of the game as well. I can pretty much guarantee the number of people playing your game will double if you try to reach a bigger audience by ensuring that people who don't have win-rar and people on mac can download your game. It would be a lot of work but well worth the effort in my opinion.

Are ZIP files easier to deal with? I can do that from the next release.

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I'm on android and it's impossible to download the game on my Samsung can you plz make apk. For easy-to-use on Samsung 

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I'll put it like this. Rar files, my Dell HP laptop can't run or extract the contents from without a paid program or first converting the file to zip. 'Zip files' are literally compressed folders. The same Dell HP laptop can easily extract files from a folder with the built-in File Explorer 'app'. I agree with travisz's point however, as more people would be able to access you game faster, easier, cheaper, and safer(I've run into too many false converter websites) if you give them multiple options.

I will publish only .zip files from the next release, to make everyone's life easier. I didn't know .rar caused so many problems, honestly.

I really want too play your game. Can you please make it just download and install that simple. This unzip stuff doesn't work on my Android. 

nah dude its quite easy to unzip files in any of the phones from the my files or the default files application in your phone, even a old phone of mine from 2016 can unzip files

Good for you. It won't stall on my phone. Because I have Android.

? I guess y'all don't know about 7zip which is free, handles all compression types, and works on Windows and Linux. (and there's some easy ways to get it working on Mac OS, too)

Yeah it's sad that it doesn't work on Android 

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it's on Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sociosoft.unzip&hl=en_US&gl=US

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They definitely are easier to deal with for people who play the game I can't speak for the dev side of things but as a player I can say that zip is so much easier as most computers can unzip files without having to purchase winrar or any other added headaches. thank you for your consideration.

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Thanks. I'll make this small change, sorry for the inconvenience. In the next releases this should be resolved.

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thank you I'm currently playing 2.10 on another sight since it allowes me to play Fullscreen and I have to say I like it so far.

Wait..! You guys can install from rar file?

please make .apk for android, its annoying to extract .rar manually for it. 

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Most of the time you can run WinRAR without paying. After the trial is done, just close the "Please purchase me" window and continue to un-pack your .rar file. The only reason many devs use RAR is because winZIP compression rates are too low to create a compact enough file to download

The issue is, I used to do that, but now the trial period has expired, so I can't anymore.

Even after the trial period has expired, you can still use WinRAR to extract files without having to pay. The message that pops up telling you to buy WinRAR can be simply closed and ignored, WinRAR will still extract your files without any issue

Why can't I download this app?I did it right, I changed the files, I click download, but they write that: It is impossible to download applications on this device.

Could you please make it .apk for android, i have tried to extract it but running it was impossible. I know that it might take a while to do but the android comunity would love it and make this game more popular, cuz i would love to play this game but i cant.

it says it works on android any idea how