Torrent?

Mat on 2012/05/16 08:55

Is there going to be a torrent with all the entries in?

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richard on 2012/05/16 11:17:

Given the really low participation rate with previous torrents I was going to try an experiment and not do it this year...

adrwen on 2012/05/16 12:17:

There could possibly be adverse effects, I have personally always used the torrent and to my great astonishment there have always been several great entries that I did not know of.

A possible adverse effect could be that many games are left untried because they look insignificant enough on the entries list.

Mat on 2012/05/16 18:35:

I think the ratings are going to be skewed regardless due to the order they are presented. I find the torrent useful though.

cyhawk on 2012/05/16 18:39:

Mat: Good news! The entries are displayed in a random order for everyone to remove this bias.

Mat on 2012/05/16 19:51:

Oh, cool.

bitcraft on 2012/05/17 00:14:

I was waiting for the torrent to show up as well.  It bothers me that I have to spend so much time manually clicking links for the games when in the past I could just download them all at once.

Squish on 2012/05/17 00:32:

I would download a torrent.

Hugoagogo on 2012/05/17 00:37:

Same I was looking for the torrent , makes batch playing and marking much easier

phoe6 on 2012/05/17 08:25:

I would have preferred a torrent too.

apadentro on 2012/05/19 09:44:

The torrent is a good alternative but I don't see any problem going to the entries list, select one, play and vote. One each time.
Once a game is voted is marked as rated (in green color) so you just need to go for the red ones ;D

In my opinion it id easy the way it is now

daftspaniel on 2012/05/19 21:28:

Downloading one at a time is working fine for me. It's not much hassle.

The dependency pain is another issue tho :-/ Python is too fragmented these days.

Mat on 2012/05/20 10:35:

The most annoying thing is getting tar bombed. With the torrent it was already divided into subdirectories, so you just had to extract everything.

Totally agree about dependencies. I have run into a lot of trouble this time round due to running old versions.

I wonder if it would be useful to compile a list of the most common libraries and have a guide to set them all up on windows/linux/mac?

superjoe on 2012/05/20 19:10:

I for one would like instructions on how to set up pygame on osx snow leopard.

cyhawk on 2012/05/20 21:54:

superjoe: Does pygame-1.9.2pre-py2.6-macosx10.6.mpkg.zip not work as expected? It worked for me.

It is indeed tricky to get all entries running...

Squish on 2012/05/21 22:56:

well, hello! um, that seems victorious!