So, I’m trying to run this through Windows Sandbox, because a game jam seems like a good time to be cautious. It’s nothing personal – I’m doing this for all the Windows software I can! (When I can’t make Windows Sandbox work, I’m shuffling things over to a Parallels VM on a Mac, because that’s the other VM I have available…) This game seems to be unable to launch in this configuration, I get an error:
player.exe – Application Error
The application was unable to start correctly (0xc000007b). Click OK to close the application.
A quick search suggests it’s a .NET application that isn’t self-contained, or a Visual C++ application that is also not self-contained (but can’t be fixed quite as easily).
If this is not VC++, could you recompile it as a self-contained single file app (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/deploying/single-file/overview?tabs=cli#publish-a-single-file-app)? That seems to be the advice I could find for a quick Google search for making a .NET application “just work” in Windows Sandbox.
If this is Visual C++, which version of the Visual C++ redistributables do I need to install first?
Thanks! Looking forward to trying your game once I get it working.