If you want a fun way to spend your weekend... McPixel 3 on Haiku

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If you buy McPixel 3 on itch.io , they offer a Haiku version.

It doesn’t work out of the box, but write the following json file in the game’s directory, it runs 100%, fully playable :smile:

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settings.json

{
                "fullscreen":false,
                "integer_scaling":true,
                "cinema_mode":true,
                "lowfps":false,
                "filter":0,
                "volume":100,
                "languagehandpicked":true,
                "language":"en",
                "mod":"",
                "showhint":false,
                "showmenu":false,
                "showskip":false,
}

I don’t make any money off this post or anything, just nice to see a commercially published Indie game for Haiku.

Backstory
It wasn’t really news-worthy here in 2022 when it came out since it didn’t work, I assumed it was the SDL library they embedded in it not supporting Haiku, however it looks like some bug in their code which generates the game’s settings.json from scratch.

Take the linux settings.json, use it on the Haiku version, :boom: McPixel 3.

@win8linux , you’ll probably be interested in this :slight_smile:

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You could update your comments then on:
https://itch.io/t/2500457/haiku-port

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I’ve just tested the fix with the addition of the json file and it’s working fine :slight_smile:

Nice to see that kind of game available on Haiku

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In this post, we can see a video of various systems running mcpixel 3 including Haiku:

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Thanks, I will have to try it. I bought McPixel3 awhile back but never got around to try it on my Haiku system.