Why won't you work!

tnelsond on 2011/09/22 19:23

Is it normal for most of the entries not to work? I'm using Python 2.7. On some games I get segfaults, on others I get missing libraries (which I install), and some complain about incorrect argument types inside the game.

What is the secret to getting these games to work?

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Cosmologicon on 2011/09/22 20:46:

Well the libraries are to be expected. Most games will have dependencies. Fortunately, once you've gotten through the first few games, you'll have the common libraries installed and it won't be as much of an issue.

Once you have the common libraries installed, I would say the majority of them should run without crashing. If one segfaults or crashes for you, why don't you post to that team's latest diary entry, along with a traceback if there is any? Maybe someone will have a solution handy.

Archy on 2011/09/22 22:58:

I found 2.6 to be the best one to play the pyweek games. I think there is none which is incompatible with 2.6 but a few which are with 2.7 and many which are incompatible with 2.5. So far I only experienced segfaults with linux in combination with pyglet. Deactivating audio normally solves this. Had minor sound issues on OS X too but no crashes. No problems on windows until now. I played and rated around 10 games so far and got all of them to run on Windows 7 or OSX with Python 2.6 x86.