{"author_link":"\/author\/whitelynx\/","author_name":"whitelynx","author_uid":"4408","comments":[{"author_name":"Dark Acre Jack","author_uid":"2947","time":"May 9, 2011 @ 6:50pm","epoch":1304966700,"text":"Having a hard time figuring out to make this work... any chance of a Windows executable?"},{"author_name":"whitelynx","author_uid":"4408","time":"May 13, 2011 @ 5:23am","epoch":1305263880,"text":"I'll take a stab at a Windows executable tomorrow... since I almost never run Windows, it didn't really cross my mind. In the meantime, provided you've installed Python and PyGame, you should be able to just double-click on ld20.py. I'll update instructions on http:\/\/projects.g33xnexus.com\/ld20x6\/wiki\/README\/ as well once I've made an executable."},{"author_name":"whitelynx","author_uid":"4408","time":"Jun 1, 2011 @ 9:59am","epoch":1306922040,"text":"So... better late than never, I suppose... I finally created an installer for Windows. It can be found at http:\/\/projects.g33xnexus.com\/media\/uploads\/ld20x6-0.1.exe"}],"images":["ld20\/4408-9dda91194c44f397e7e134b913c16bbd.jpg","ld20\/4408-d1669ece0c3d3c167d0f059f8e1fdcf8.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/skewedaspect.com\/ld20x6\/LD20X6-LD20-entry.zip","text":"Multi-Platform"},{"url":"http:\/\/projects.g33xnexus.com\/ld20x6","text":"Website"},{"url":"http:\/\/dev.skewedaspect.com\/bzr\/whitelynx\/ld20x6\/trunk\/","text":"Source (Bazaar)"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"32987","g_author":"4408","g_event":"LD20","g_eventkey":"6","g_subevent":"-","g_urlkey":"33017","g_title":"LD20X6: Initialisms","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"99999","g_commentcount":"3","g_site2_node_id":"0","g_hide":"N","g_has_icon":"Y","g_rqueue":"0","g_random":"0"},"nds":[],"node":null,"orig_images":["http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/45257\/4408-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/45257\/4408-shot1.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"This is a basic space shoot-em-up, similar in concept to Tyrian. There's a ton of ideas I never got around to actually adding to the game, but that will definitely happen post-compo. For now, it runs decently, and should be playable on most systems.\r\n\r\nCode is licensed under the MIT license; see the `LICENSE` file for details.\r\nContent is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported. For more information, see the `README.mkd` file in the .zip.\r\n\r\nPrerequisites\r\n-------------\r\nYou'll need to install Python, followed by PyGame.\r\n\r\n[Python]: http:\/\/www.python.org\/\r\n[PyGame]: http:\/\/pygame.org\/\r\n\r\n### Windows\r\nOn Windows, you'll specifically need Python version 2.6, and the PyGame installer for Python 2.6, since PyGame doesn't have a 2.7-compatible installer.\r\n\r\n[Python version 2.6]: http:\/\/www.python.org\/download\/releases\/2.6.6\/\r\n[PyGame installer]: http:\/\/pygame.org\/download.shtml\r\n\r\n### Mac OS X\r\nI don't have any specific instructions for this since I don't have a Mac, but my best guess is you just need the appropriate PyGame installer, since Mac OS X comes with Python.\r\n\r\n### Other Systems\r\nMost Linux distros come with Python pre-installed. Most distros also have packages for PyGame, but if you can't find a package for it, use `easy_install`:\r\n\r\n    easy_install pygame<\/p>","title":"LD20X6: Initialisms"}