Torrent! (for Windows)

I want to tell you a story, a story about something I hate.

“But why,” you ask, “would we want to hear your story?”

I’ll tell you why: do you know what I hate? I hate free hosting services. And so, instead of my daily dose of self-flagellation I decided to download all of the windows-playable LD 14 games, many of which were hosted on places like 2share, rapidshare, getdropbox, etc. This was painful.

But, like any other zealot who has recently undergone such a rugged purificaiton, I have Good News! Instead of jumping through these hoops yourself, you can instead download this:

Torrent of Windows Binaries!

There. Now I’ve taken away your excuse; you have to vote! And, once you’ve voted, please (please!) take the time to seed this for a week or so. I’m only one man, and, more importantly, I’m only one man with a single DSL connection.

*note: Where possible I’ve included whatever each participant marked as “download for windows” or similar. If a downloadable Java or Flash version was provided, I included that instead of the online version. Where no windows binary was available, I included the source code if it was in a language that (might) run on Windows (i.e. python+pygame, Löve, etc.).

**note: Missing from this torrent are: secret_knitter (broken download link), winferno (broken download link), increpare (OS X only), GBGames (Linux only), and eugman (*nix only). Please remember to look these games up and find a way to play them!

***note: URLs for Flash games hosted online but not linked for download are listed in the file “Links to Online Games.html”.

Tags: LD14 - Advancing Wall of Doom, torrent

Comments

20. Apr 2009 · 16:55 UTC
You, Doches, are a true hero. I salute you.
crux
20. Apr 2009 · 16:58 UTC
Awesome! I assume I was too late with my windows version to make the cut & I imagine I’m not the only one… will you be updating this by any chance? :)
20. Apr 2009 · 17:12 UTC
Crux: Alas! I did include your pygame sources, though. I wasn’t planning on updating it, though I may if no one does a more complete binary torrent in a week or so. This one is a little premature; people haven’t had time to finish ports and what-have-you.
20. Apr 2009 · 18:04 UTC
0rel: I didn’t include you because you had a playable Flash version online, but not in downloadable form. I did include a link to that version, in the file “Links to Online Games.html” — which I should probable make a note of.
crux
20. Apr 2009 · 18:05 UTC
No worries, Doches =) Thanks for putting this together!
0rel
20. Apr 2009 · 18:43 UTC
ah okay, that’s fine… just didn’t see it. – currently testing some of the entries, it’s great to have them all together… such amazing load of content, created in just 2 days…. total crazyness =)
athanazio
20. Apr 2009 · 21:53 UTC
me /salute Doches

me /bow Doches
20. Apr 2009 · 22:51 UTC
Downloading now, thank ye sir!
5parrowhawk
20. Apr 2009 · 23:00 UTC
Thanks, Doches! This is awfully convenient.
Radix
21. Apr 2009 · 00:16 UTC
I’m behind the Great Firewall and can’t get to most free filehosts at all, so this is great. It’s just too bad I have to wait for the whole archive to finish.
21. Apr 2009 · 01:41 UTC
0rel: Crap!
secret_knitter
21. Apr 2009 · 18:12 UTC
Secret_knitter apologizes for posting a bad link.
24. Apr 2009 · 01:59 UTC
Doches, no worries on my side! Though Hope is not really an entry, since I posted it after the deadline here. I’ll make it more clear in my post, so no one else makes the mistake.
shawn
17. May 2009 · 12:15 UTC
the link for the torrent is broken