Thank you so much for publishing that video and keeping me company during a boring day of work.
The reason it needed to download so many packages for you is because you installed racket-minimal from the distribution, which basically just has the language and compiler but no standard library. So when you wanted to install the dependencies of my game, it had to first download and install the entire standard library, one file at a time. That’s why it was downloading r5rs, r6rs, etc. Normally that stuff is included by default when you install racket from the distribution, but I guess nobody packaged it for your BSD.
And then being at the antipodes(?) seems to have made the download speed very sad.
If you create a video or livestream of you playing the rest of the game, I’d be very happy to watch.