but it depends on the virus scanner. some virus scanner are very annoying and tell every file is a virus. that i dont accept! when the windows-intern virus scanner say its ok than it should be okay. but scanner like avast or other are announcing every homebrew game as virus. I have 7 programing languages, i havent only purebasic. but i dont want to miss it and only use for unranked jams.
I agree it is an annoying situation and understand your frustration, however this jam simply can't t accept entries which are actively identified as a virus by common anti-virus programs.
If you still wish to use PureBasic for your project, there do appear to be some things you can do to help your executable pass common virus scans. The PureBasic forums are full of posts with developers talking about things they have done to solve this problem. Try searching there for a solution. Here's one example:
https://www.purebasic.fr/english/viewtopic.php?t=72466
And here's a web site that can help you check if your exe file will get flagged by common anti-virus software.
There are many, many anti-virus programs so hitting a few false positives probably is unavoidable, but if you could get the exe to pass the most common ones (McCafee, MS Defender, BitDefender, AVast, Kaspersky, Norton, Trend Micro, etc) it'd be acceptable for this jam.
It appears developers have used different methods to get around this problem. You will have to do some research to find a solution that works for your setup.
The forum post I gave a link to includes some advice. Some one said to avoid using the statement:
UsePNGImageDecoder()
in your code.
Someone else posted what looks like PureBasic code for a program that modifies an executables size and crc checksum to help it pass common virus scans.
I don’t use PureBasic so I can only be of limited help here but if you read the forum thread I posted and search the PureBasic forums for other threads on this topic you may find a solution that works for you.
hey i just wanna say that i am sorry about removing your game from the last jam. i felt really bad about it. but after coordinating with the other bigwigs at opengameart, this is the answer we came to. it still really really really made me feel like a dog turd. i am sure that it is very little solace to you that the decision made me feel bad, but that's all i can offer you.