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Oquonie

Oquonie is a textless adventure across an intertwined megastructure. · By Rek & Devine

problems sideloading Playdate version

A topic by Rachel Helps created 58 days ago Views: 236 Replies: 10
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If I upload the main file, the playdate sideloading interface says there isn't a top-level .pdx file. If I upload the .pdx folder (?), it says wrong filetype. Am I missing something?

Developer

You're the second person to raise this issue today, I suppose that you must be on OS X? Could you try something for us, just as an experiment, if you zip the .pdx folder, and remove the .zip extension so the zipped file is `oquonie.pdx`, and give the playdate that file, what happens?

sorry for the delayed response! I downloaded the latest build onto my Windows desktop. I had the same problem with the .zip file. I took out the .pdx folder and zipped that so it would be the root? folder and that worked (but it took a while to upload).

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I had this problem on my Google Pixel phone as well (uploading the original download to the PD website I mean), I'll try on my computer later today

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UPDATE - I got it working, the problem was the zip file contained the file structure Oquonie/Oquonie.pdx/<all the subfolders & files>, but the playdate website expects the Oquonie.pdx to be the root folder inside that zip file (i.e, just Oquonie.pdx/<all the subfolders & files>). Once I zipped up the Oquonie.pdx folder by itself the upload worked no problem

Developer

We're glad to hear :) We'll try and get rid of the subfolder in the zip file and upload a new build!

Still facing this issue. The folder structure seems ok to me as the zip file contains the correct Oquonie.pdx folder such as all the other games I sideload to my Playdate from itch.io 

Developer

What happens when you open the whole folder(not an individual file in it)?

I don't have the SDK installed so the Oquonie.pdx appears as an usual folder for me. In the folder I have the pdex.bin pdex.so pdxinfo files and sounds and SystemAssets folders. I'm sideloading thru the playdate website, will try over usb later, maybe that could help

rezipping and sideloading via USB finally helped. that was a loong journey to figure out :)

Developer

Great! Sorry it's such a pain.. the thing expects an apple app bundle, which we can't create from Linux. Glad you got it working!