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The Windows binaries/installers for Bible Dave have been uploaded! They've only been tested in Windows XP (SP2). If you use Vista, it would be great to hear from you and know if it ran or not.

It turns out, once you figure out how to disable the PPC architecture (on an Intel Mac), making Python programs into .apps is easier than you think. Windows version coming soon.

After a long delay due to development being pushed back some, 0.9 is out in the wild!
A Windows installer is in the works. The Mac OS X installer will wait until version 1.0.

We are working towards the Bible Dave 1.0 release. Our focus is on a few new engine features, and a completed storyline. We cannot give a release date yet as we are still in early development.

We have a .pkg Mac installer. Unfortunately it is not a .app. To launch the game after installation go to /Applications/Bible Dave/main.py

Note: Although the installer checks for dependencies, it has not been thoroughly tested. In order to work, Bible Dave requires Python 2.3 or higher and Pygame 1.7.1 or higher.

The 0.8 (Beta) Windows installer and binaries have been released. They've been tested on 32-bit Windows XP. It is unkown whether they work on Vista or the 64-bit versions of Windows XP.

It's taken longer than expected but Bible Dave version 0.8 (the Beta release) is out!

We will be releasing packages for various Linux distros and other OSes within the month. A Windows EXE Binary is scheduled to be released next week.

The source code has been tested on Mac OSX 10.4, Windows XP, and over 6 Linux distributions and works flawlessly on every OS. To run the source Python 2.4 or higher and Pygame 1.7.1 or higher is required.... read more

The Beta Release has, unfortunately been delayed. The reason being we have no packager for RPM, and Debian systems. The beta release has been re-scheduled for Saturday, May 19, 2007. However, unless we find a packager, this release will only contain the source code and the Windows installer.

It has been decided that no Linux package binaries (currently only Debian and RPM) will be released until the Beta release candidates. The Beta RCs are scheduled to be released around the end of March or the beginning of April 2007.

Bible Dave 0.7.5 has been released with a few new levels, some major grahpics improvements, and has had one or two bugs fixed.

The RPM and .deb packages will be uploaded shortly.

Bible Dave v0.7.1 has been released with a UI facelift and faster tile blitting code. It is more unstable than our older releases, so if you find any bugs please report them.

You can download binaries for Debian/Ubuntu (Missing dependencies) and other .deb based Linux distributions, Fedora Core and other RPM (missing dependencies) based distros, and Windows 2000/XP (Windows 9x may work but is not supported). The source for Windows, Mac (not yet tested but it should work... theoretically), and Linux.

Bible Dave v0.6.8.1 fixed a few bugs that were found after v0.6.8 was released.

Bible Dave v0.6.8.1 fixed a bug in v0.6.8 that made the game crash when loading the savegame file. (This can be worked around by deleting the .bibledave file in ~/.bibledave or C:\Documents and Settings\<user>\.bibledave or by downloading v0.6.8.1)

A (K)ubuntu and Debian tested deb package of Bible Dave is now available from the download page. (You will need to install pygame 1.7.1 separately as the pygame dependency does not work)

We now have an "binary" RPM for Bible Dave 0.6.6 and are planning on creating a .deb package.

This version has many code improvements, several new levels, and a completely working Windows binary and (smaller!) installer this time.

Version 0.6.4.3 of the source is out with the Windows and (possibly) RPM and Debian binaries coming later!

I'm please to anounce that the 0.6.4 binaries work ok except for one minor bug: If you have never started Bible Dave before, don't try to continue a game :).

Sorry. We've just discovered that the entire 0.6.3 release is broken. (We've tested 0.6.4 and it is fine). 0.6.3 has been removed.

Bible Dave 0.6.4 has some new features such as the ablility to save levels and to select a difficulty for the game.

The Binaries for 0.6.3 Have Been Released.
0.6.3 has new Enemies and levels.

Sorry, the Binaries are late in coming. There is a pygame/py2exe/pgu problem that is difficult to get around.

Hi, if you donwloaded any bible dave binary you may have noticed that it crashes.
Well, we now have an experienced py2exe packager who can probably do better than me.

Try downloading it again in a few days. Or download the zip that contains the python scripts.

Bible Dave is at alpha with Enemies!
Current Enemies:
Avoid the Guava throwing monkeys.