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My sci-fi game Aurora is ready for beta-testing. I've combed it pretty thoroughly for bugs, so just enjoy (and give me copious feedback, since it's my first game). It's Glulx.

You can email me, but I'll be gone this week for Thanksgiving. The latest version should be up on IFDB now or soon, though.

My main testing questions are below.

So, what's the status on this? I've got a couple of versions in my hard drive - I'm just waiting for the final version before I start playing.

Sorry about the initial proliferation of versions; the version on IFDB now (release 4) is the "final" one. EDIT: There were a couple of minor but really annoying bugs in that version, so I put up a version 4.1 (which is why there was no download link for the moment; should be up now/soon).

But nobody (except me and my husband) has played through very far; absolutely nobody has gotten through the dream sequence, so there could still be problems after that, which is why it's still beta for now. I am certainly still soliciting playtesters.

(If anyone has utterly given up on the dream sequence, I can post the solution.)

That would be http://ifdb.tads.org/viewgame?id=7ykzpem8720zd1c3 for the lazy, although I don't see any download for it on the IFDB.

If the 4.1 version is the one that just went up on the archive, it seems to have gotten corrupted during upload - I get the following error:

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Git Fatal Error
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Can't read the Blorb file because it seems to be corrupted.
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OK
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I downloaded the file again to make sure it wasn't a problem with my download. Same error.

...Huh. It downloads and fine for me. This is the second time someone's reported a version of this game being corrupted, but I've never been able to replicate the problem. Anyone know why this is happening?

(I'm using Windows Glulxe 0.4.6, if that's any help, but I imagine everyone is.)

What with Git, Gargoyle, Quixe and Filfre, I wouldn't make that assumption automatically.

Incidently, I re-downloaded, just to make sure. Same error. I'm downloading from the feed of the archive. The file is 2.17Mbs. I also tried it with Windows Glulxe, and same error:

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Glulxe
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This Blorb file seems to be invalid.
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OK
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It works just fine for me. (It's a 2.2 MB file, by the way, slightly larger than your corrupted copy.) Have you tried downloading it from a different mirror of the IF Archive? How about clearing your web browser's cache, or using a different browser to download it?

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Emily Boegheim

Works fine here (Gargoyle/Linux).

MD5 of the file is: 0ea8ce47e6dfc836cbb204f8efef318a
2.281.852 bytes.

If you get the same MD5 with your downloaded file, then the download is OK and something else is going on.

Strange. I re-downloaded from the IFDB link, which links to the archive. Again, a corrupted copy.

But then I downloaded through a mirror (jmac.org), and NOW it works.

Just so it's all clear and sorted out, where have you guys been downloading from? The main archive or a mirror?