Binary Solar System Destruction

Category	Rank	Score	Count
Coolness	2192	22

rahazan 2015-04-20 05:11

How I got the game to run:
First I downloaded the zip of the source from here https://github.com/michaeltopping/LD32/archive/master.zip

Then I had to install pygame, which I could find here http://pygame.org/download.shtml

But, because I had a 64bit version of pygame, it required the 64bit version found here, which I could install using wheel (pip install wheel) http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#pygame
I could then run the game by using 'python main.py' in the downloaded folder, hope this helps some of you! :)
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I achieved a score of 165, it was a bit hard to get an idea whether I was doing well or not. Good job on your first entry!

jonathanporta 2015-04-20 05:30

Holy LOL at the amount of dependencies needed and yaks to shave to install this. Waiting on a download for step three or four. Now I am committed. I must play this.

jonathanporta 2015-04-20 05:38

Totally. Worth. It.

jonathanporta 2015-04-20 05:39

I had to install so many things just to get this game to work that I decided I had to really like it.

cosmologicon 2015-04-21 01:09

FYI, anyone on Ubuntu can run it like this:

sudo apt-get install git python-pygame
git clone https://github.com/michaeltopping/LD32.git
cd LD32
python main.py

Not a bad idea, but I feel like I've seen similar things before. I found it was easier to just go on the other side of the sun and pull planet toward the sun from the other side, rather than trying to fling them into the sun. I think it would be funner if players were encouraged to fling them somehow. I got 279.

smiley 2015-04-22 06:10

On Mac with Brew installed:

# brew install homebrew/python/pygame
# export PYTHONPATH=/usr/local/lib/python2.7
# python main.py

filthyincubation666 2015-04-22 12:57

good job man

teamcalcium 2015-04-23 13:09

Liked the concept, the gameplay and graphics were a little too redundant.

frnknstn 2015-04-23 22:20

Short, simple fun. Plus, the theme speaks to me :)