Downloads

This site holds all blitwizard downloads you might be interested in, including the source code. Simply pick the package for your platform and you're set.

Please note blitwizard is still unstable and unfinished, so expect some breakage. It isn't unusable, but it still has the one or other notable bug or issue. Check ISSUES.txt for the most obvious problems.

Binary packages

This is most likely what you want if you want to start using blitwizard right now.

Win32: blitwizard 0.3 Win32 binary (.zip)

Linux: blitwizard 0.3 Linux binary (.zip) (alternatively, take the source code package below)

Mac OS X: blitwizard 0.3 Mac OS X binary (.zip)

Android: for Android development, please obtain the source package and prepare a Linux machine (you can also do so in a VM).
On Windows, you can probably make an Android release work too, but it isn't officially supported and you'd make some hacks/changes here and there - so get a Linux somewhere, it's free!

Source code

Stable (used for the binary packages above): blitwizard 0.3 source code package (.zip)

Bleeding edge development code: Head over to GitHub!

Bug tracker (for reporting bugs in blitwizard): GitHub bug tracker for blitwizard

A note about FFmpeg

FFmpeg is a library which, if present, allows blitwizard to play many more additional audio formats. FFmpeg is NOT provided or shipped with blitwizard, but many other applications installed on your PC might come with it (e.g. Steam) from where blitwizard will attempt to load it.

Technically, you can also ship the FFmpeg library with your blitwizard game. However, it seems to me the legal situation of doing that is complicated (FFmpeg implements patented audio technology), therefore you should be careful about that.

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Learn Lua To be fully effective with blitwizard, you should check out the Lua tutorials at Lua-users.org. The tutorials are focussed on generic Lua (so not specifically related to graphics or multimedia), but should get you a good start. There is also a live demo of generic Lua for some simple, speedy tests.

Help the project If you have some C programming knowledge or you want to gather some, consider contributing to the blitwizard code and help making it more awesome for everyone! You can also easily reuse contributed code for commercial projects due to its liberal zlib licensing. Donations are also accepted (through PayPal).

Share games blitwizard is listed on IndieDB and ModDB where you can enlist your own games and share them with others. IndieDB is a great place for sharing indie games and also allows you track down other projects created with blitwizard, or even other engines. Please note this site is in no way associated with IndieDB/ModDB.