Skul Ark

MacOS

The MacOS zip archive contains two files:

• the SkulArk executable
• a copy of the SDL2 library

Because these files are not yet signed, to run the application right now you will need to:

1. download the zip file
2. find the zip file in Finder (probably in your Downloads directory, unless you chose a different destination)
3. double-click the zip file in Finder to extract it
4. go into the skulark-0.0.1 directory that was extracted from the zip in Finder
5. right-click on libSDL2-2.0.0.dylib and choose "Open", confirm that you indeed want to open it (nothing will happen when you do, that's expected - move on to the next step)
6. finally, right-click on the SkulArk executable and choose "Open", confirm that you indeed want to open this, too

The game should start up after 10-15 seconds.

Next time, and from then on, you should be able to run the the game by just double-clicking the SkulArk executable.

You can override the tileset by putting a file named skulark_tileset.png in your home directory. So for example if your username is foobar, the game will load /Users/foobar/skulark_tileset.png if it exists. It should be a 512x512 px PNG containing a 16x16 grid of 32x32 px tiles.

Layout is assumed to be Code Page 437. If that doesn't mean anything to you, don't worry about it. Just make something resembling a 32x32 Dwarf Fortress tileset from here, and save it to the expected location.