{"author_link":"\/author\/robmaister\/","author_name":"Robmaister","author_uid":"7668","comments":[{"author_name":"mezoom","author_uid":"7394","time":"Dec 19, 2011 @ 5:31am","epoch":1324272360,"text":"crashes at start for me (Windows XP .NET 4 is up to date)"},{"author_name":"Robmaister","author_uid":"7668","time":"Dec 19, 2011 @ 5:38am","epoch":1324272780,"text":"Just tried this on another system of mine, if you don't have OpenAL it'll either crash on start or just not show up at all. I added an OpenAL link to the description, I should have included an OpenAL installer with the download..."},{"author_name":"Robmaister","author_uid":"7668","time":"Dec 19, 2011 @ 5:52am","epoch":1324273620,"text":"actually never mind, that's another issue. Right now there's another issue where QuickFont (the font rendering library I'm using) is throwing an AccessViolationException, but only when it's not being debugged. It seems to only happen on some machines, I'm going to investigate this a bit more."},{"author_name":"Robmaister","author_uid":"7668","time":"Dec 19, 2011 @ 6:07am","epoch":1324274520,"text":"Somehow it compiled differently (63.5kb instead of 60.0kb) on the machine that crashed, and it seems to be working on that system now. I'm going to blame it all on wizardry, reuploading the windows version now, let me know if it still crashes."},{"author_name":"bzizizi","author_uid":"6411","time":"Dec 19, 2011 @ 7:50am","epoch":1324280700,"text":"Couldn't unpack the game. Unexpected end of archive..."},{"author_name":"Robmaister","author_uid":"7668","time":"Dec 19, 2011 @ 8:39am","epoch":1324283640,"text":"I just tried redownloading it on both my Arch and Windows partitions and unzipping on Windows with both explorer and 7zip, no issues.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Try redownloading?"},{"author_name":"spiral","author_uid":"5765","time":"Dec 19, 2011 @ 10:25am","epoch":1324290000,"text":"Worked for me... (win7 64bit) \r<br\/>\r<br\/>...easy to get lost on mars tho! eventually found my way"},{"author_name":"Dietrich Epp","author_uid":"7606","time":"Dec 20, 2011 @ 9:40am","epoch":1324373700,"text":"Nice!  It feels cohesive and complete."},{"author_name":"whilefun","author_uid":"7424","time":"Dec 20, 2011 @ 7:00pm","epoch":1324407300,"text":"Won't work for me either, windows 7, 64 bit. The error details say:\r<br\/>\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Problem signature:\r<br\/>  Problem Event Name:\tAPPCRASH\r<br\/>  Application Name:\tRoversSpirit.exe\r<br\/>  Application Version:\t1.0.0.0\r<br\/>  Application Timestamp:\t4eeecc9b\r<br\/>  Fault Module Name:\tKERNELBASE.dll\r<br\/>  Fault Module Version:\t6.1.7601.17651\r<br\/>  Fault Module Timestamp:\t4e211319\r<br\/>  Exception Code:\te0434352\r<br\/>  Exception Offset:\t0000b9bc\r<br\/>  OS Version:\t6.1.7601.2.1.0.256.4\r<br\/>  Locale ID:\t1033\r<br\/>  Additional Information 1:\t0a9e\r<br\/>  Additional Information 2:\t0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789\r<br\/>  Additional Information 3:\t0a9e\r<br\/>  Additional Information 4:\t0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Read our privacy statement online:\r<br\/>  http:\/\/go.microsoft.com\/fwlink\/?linkid=104288&amp;clcid=0x0409\r<br\/>\r<br\/>If the online privacy statement is not available, please read our privacy statement offline:\r<br\/>  C:\\Windows\\system32\\en-US\\erofflps.txt"},{"author_name":"olav_st","author_uid":"7758","time":"Dec 20, 2011 @ 7:16pm","epoch":1324408260,"text":"Worked for me on linux using mono.\r<br\/>Good game, but i got lost.."},{"author_name":"Robmaister","author_uid":"7668","time":"Dec 20, 2011 @ 8:16pm","epoch":1324411860,"text":"@whilefun http:\/\/www.terrariaonline.com\/threads\/terraria-appcrash-on-startup.16877\/\r<br\/>\r<br\/>It looks like my game is being put on the DEP list, I've had this happen to me before with completely random programs. My laptop would refuse to play Half-Life 1 because of it. Make sure you've unblocked the exe (right click -&gt; properties -&gt; unblock) and make sure your account has access to all the files in the folder first though. The instructions in the link to add a DEP exception is: Control Panel -&gt; System -&gt; Advanced System settings -&gt; Advanced tab -&gt; Performance Settings -&gt; Data Execution Prevention tab.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Also if you have 2 versions of the .NET framework, that might be the issue, remove the older one."},{"author_name":"whilefun","author_uid":"7424","time":"Dec 20, 2011 @ 10:40pm","epoch":1324420500,"text":"Huh, i tried all that and when I tried to add an exception, I got an error that says \r<br\/>\r<br\/>&quot;This program must run with data exception protection (DEP) enabled.  You cannot turn off DEP for this program.&quot;\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Well that sucks. :\\"},{"author_name":"Robmaister","author_uid":"7668","time":"Dec 20, 2011 @ 11:03pm","epoch":1324421880,"text":"Apparently that specific error code just means NullReferenceException, make sure you've got some graphics card drivers - it could just not be finding opengl32.dll, and make sure you've downloaded OpenAL.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>I don't know if this would be the issue, but if you've got Visual Studio on your system, try the suggestion here: http:\/\/research.microsoft.com\/en-us\/um\/redmond\/projects\/pex\/wiki\/exit%20code%20access%20violation.html\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Actually, if you've got VS, try compiling from source."},{"author_name":"whilefun","author_uid":"7424","time":"Dec 21, 2011 @ 12:42pm","epoch":1324471020,"text":"oh snap, that might be it. I've got VS on my system. I'll give that a try once I get back to my compy :)"},{"author_name":"Robmaister","author_uid":"7668","time":"Dec 21, 2011 @ 9:35pm","epoch":1324503000,"text":"also, I just gave this a try on my friend's mac compiling from MonoDevelop last night, apparently it had trouble rendering fonts that weren't of size 36, so I'll create an alternate download for those who experience issues with the regular download."},{"author_name":"whilefun","author_uid":"7424","time":"Dec 22, 2011 @ 1:00am","epoch":1324515300,"text":"Man, I am glad I was persistent. I tried it on my other laptop also on windows 7 but no VS and it worked.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Awesome job! Great sounds."},{"author_name":"JoeCool","author_uid":"4216","time":"Dec 23, 2011 @ 3:04pm","epoch":1324652340,"text":"Did not work for me Window 7 64Bit :("},{"author_name":"Robmaister","author_uid":"7668","time":"Dec 23, 2011 @ 11:20pm","epoch":1324682100,"text":"Any specific errors? Did you make sure to install OpenAL? If you have Visual Studio, have you tried compiling from source?"},{"author_name":"kumber","author_uid":"5103","time":"Dec 26, 2011 @ 9:11pm","epoch":1324933560,"text":"I just left Mars :) Nice game!"},{"author_name":"Stargoat","author_uid":"8618","time":"Dec 29, 2011 @ 4:21am","epoch":1325132160,"text":"Download link not working for me."},{"author_name":"Robmaister","author_uid":"7668","time":"Dec 30, 2011 @ 2:39am","epoch":1325212440,"text":"Is github.com blocked where you're trying to download from? That's the only reason I can think of for the download not working. Both the binary and the source are hosted on github."},{"author_name":"caranha","author_uid":"7847","time":"Jan 3, 2012 @ 2:00am","epoch":1325555700,"text":"Nice! A bit straightforward for a puzzle game, but you made me interested in the story of the martian prison. A few more notes certainly wouldn't hurt :-)"},{"author_name":"Veralos","author_uid":"8132","time":"Jan 7, 2012 @ 8:08am","epoch":1325923380,"text":"I don't like that you need to install OpenAl, but it was simple to install and the game worked fine afterwards, so it's not a major problem.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>A short and simple, yet enjoyable, game. The graphics are okay, but not great. I liked the sounds a lot, though. The &quot;Alone&quot; theme is also used fairly well."}],"images":["ld22\/7668-d1f6229556f7f9ef9a78572318a4ab5b.jpg","ld22\/7668-aabc0518b91c88b9889903d17273785b.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/github.com\/downloads\/Robmaister\/RoversSpirit\/Rovers-Spirit-LD22.zip","text":"Windows"},{"url":"https:\/\/github.com\/Robmaister\/RoversSpirit\/zipball\/master","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"31721","g_author":"7668","g_event":"LD22","g_eventkey":"8","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"31751","g_title":"Rover's Spirit","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"401","g_commentcount":"23","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\/\/87574\/7668-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/87574\/7668-shot1.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"You are a Mars rover, and have recently lost contact with Earth. You stumble across a martian prison and must explore the area.\r\n\r\nControls: arrow keys to move, Z to interact.\r\n\r\nThis game will run on pretty much any hardware (minimum OpenGL 1.5). On my netbook, only non-power-of-two textures weren't being displayed correctly, but it still played fine.\r\n\r\nIf you keep your system updated, you'll have .NET 4 (Windows 7 has it by default), but just in case you get an error about not having .NET, you can download it here: http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/download\/en\/details.aspx?id=24872\r\n\r\nJust tested this on another machine, you'll need to have OpenAL installed too. If the game doesn't do anything at the beginning, this is your issue, download and install OpenAL here: http:\/\/connect.creativelabs.com\/openal\/Downloads\/oalinst.zip\r\n\r\nYou can still play this game on Linux or OS X, you just need to download Mono separately and run \"mono \/path\/to\/entry\/RoversSpirit.exe\"<\/p>","title":"Rover's Spirit"}