{"id":15050,"date":"2025-09-22T12:01:21","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T18:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/?p=15050"},"modified":"2025-09-23T06:18:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T12:18:17","slug":"easy-windows-installers-for-the-games-ive-made","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/?p=15050","title":{"rendered":"Easy Windows Installers for the Games I’ve Made"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve made six video games so far, and they’re all fun, deep, and engaging experiences.\u00a0 You can read about them here, on the Video Games page<\/a>.<\/p>\n

They have been a little tedious to set up and get running, though.\u00a0 Previously, you’ve had to download the files, use 7zip to unpack them to your Documents folder, and then manually make shortcuts and assign the provided game icon to those shortcuts.\u00a0 Well no more!\u00a0 Unless you like doing that.\u00a0 But if not, then no more!<\/p>\n

I’ve used the free and open source program Inno Setup<\/a> to make automated Windows installers that do all that work for you.\u00a0 Just download the exe installer file, double click on it, and you’ll have the game installed on your PC and ready to play.\u00a0 This is a totally safe and clean install that doesn’t even touch the registry or any hidden appdata folder, it simply unpacks the game files to your Documents folder and creates Start Menu shortcuts.<\/p>\n

So if you’d like to re-install my games, or if you haven’t played them before, now is the perfect time to download them and check them out:<\/p>\n

Onyx Crystal Core<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Pomplain Forst in Outer Spave<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

The Fembot Crisis<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Mechatropolis<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Beyond Futureworld<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

The Second Fembot Crisis<\/strong><\/a><\/big><\/p>\n

Enjoy!<\/p>\n

Note to users of Chrome and other Chromium based browsers: downloading of exe files may be blocked.\u00a0 If so, you can probably change that in the settings.\u00a0 Or use Firefox instead, so you aren’t supporting a multi-billion dollar company that’s actively working to destroy the free and open internet, you know.<\/p>\n

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I’ve made six video games so far, and they’re all fun, deep, and engaging experiences.\u00a0 You can read about them here, on the Video Games page. They have been a little tedious to set up and get running, though.\u00a0 Previously, you’ve had to download the files, use 7zip to unpack them to your Documents folder, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,14,38],"tags":[614,638],"class_list":["post-15050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asfr","category-fembots","category-video-games","tag-games","tag-my-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15050"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15066,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15050\/revisions\/15066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}