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KDRGN1 year ago

Hey there! I wanted to run this in a VM despite the scary itch.io warning, because it's super unfortunate that this happened, but it just silently exits. (No error message, no console output.)

This is a fresh Windows 10 VM, so could be that some dependency is missing, or maybe something got broken in the JSON files along the way?

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Muncher of Bits1 year ago

Hmm, the no error messages thing is a bit odd. How are you running the program? I’ll upload a version with the (very) verbose debug console, which should print out any issues during launch.

I just tried the program on my own VM and it launched right up - but that’s not saying much because it’s been used for development and might have some DLLs I’m not thinking of..

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KDRGN1 year ago(+1)

I tried launching via the Windows Explorer (nothing happened) and via CMD and PowerShell (which hung for a few seconds, then returned me to the command prompt.) It's fully possible that this is a problem with the specific VM I was using though (VirtualBox, Linux host, Windows 10 Enterprise Evaluation ISO you can get from Microsoft as guest)

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Muncher of Bits1 year ago

OK, I’ve uploaded a “DNMMPDSMN_console.zip”. The console will vanish on exit if you don’t run it from a console, and the game has to be run from it’s own directory to work. It should spit out any issues with the windowing system or OpenGL.

For reference, I used a Hyper-V VM, which may have made the difference.

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KDRGN1 year ago

Here's the output I get when running from console:

Failed to create GLFW window
Saving!
E: Failed to create save JSON
WINDOWING ERROR
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Muncher of Bits1 year ago(+1)

Thanks! Odd that GLFW is having an issue creating a window! I’ve only ever seen that under Linux in Wayland. I’ll increase the verbosity of that error to include whatever GLFW is logging internally, hopefully that’ll help solve this mystery.

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Muncher of Bits1 year ago(+1)

Updated. It’ll now spit out whatever GLFW provides as the error - hopefully it’s something that makes sense. It gets past initializing GLFW, but fails during window creation… I’m betting on it being something with the OpenGL version, but the game doesn’t require any particular version during window and GL context creation, so I’m at a bit of a loss.

Thanks for the input thusfar!

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Muncher of Bits1 year ago

Also, I’m currently setting up a W10 VM in VirtualBox to see if I run into the same issues so I can go about solving them.

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Muncher of Bits1 year ago(+1)

Spun up a VirtualBox VM and lo behold, the driver in VirtualBox doesn’t support OpenGL apparently: “WGL: The driver does not appear to support OpenGL”

I’ll try including a software opengl dll to see if that works. If not, you might just have to wait until Itch.io decides my game isn’t malware.

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KDRGN1 year ago

Hey there! I was able to run it with the new DLL. Though now Windows Defender is complaining as well, so I wouldn't be comfortable running it outside a VM, haha.

Sorry about making you do so much extra debugging! I do think you have a cool basis for a platformer here, the level generation is fun and I like the look of the main character.

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Muncher of Bits1 year ago(+1)

I think defender will complain about any application that isn’t commonly downloaded or from a trusted source. I’m glad it’s working for you now though, and completely understand your skepticism.

Also, the extra debugging wasn’t bad! Thanks for the free software testing, lol :)

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