I dunno what happened, I downloaded the game again to give you the error message and now it did launch, i think it was something with the engine. It was a fun play, and it was challenging to try and win without using the spam exploit. Very good!
Well Google says this means something is wrong with DirectX. So you could either try to 1) reinstall DirectX or 2) update your GPU driver or maybe even 3) check for Windows updates. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
