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Wait, what should I do to play the game? I still don't understand and the only antivirus I have on my pc is something called SMADAV or something like that. I extracted the downloaded file into a new folder and when I opened it, I then clicked the file that has the game icon on it but it says that the program cannot be started because file " api-ms-win-crt-runtime-l1-1-0.dll " is missing from my computer. After that the File that I clicked (The one with the game icon) dissapeared. Any help please?

The error about api-ms-win-crt-runtime-l1-1-0.dll is likely misleading. That's a part of Windows for running programs written in the C language. It's very unlikely that you're missing it, SMADAV probably just blocked access.

I've been having on-going problems with false positives from some kinds of anti-virus software because I use PyInstaller to make the game. SMADAV is a new one on me, I'm having trouble finding any information about how it works, so I don't know if I can be much help. Sorry about this!

I have plans in the new year to replace PyInstaller entirely, so hopefully that should help, but I haven't settled on a date for when I'll have that done. In the meantime there's not really much you can do other than tell SMADEV to make an exception, if that's something it allows.