Wormux Portable 0.8-PRERELESE (Testers needed)

About:War is declared !

Have the mascots of your favorite free softwares battle in the Wormux arena. Using dynamite, grenades, baseball bat and others bazookas,... exterminate your opponent in a 2D toon style scenery and a funny environment.

Each player controls the team of his choice (penguin, gnu, firefox, wilber,...) and must destroy his adversary using more or less casual weapons.

Although a minimum of strategy is required to vanquish, Wormux is pre-eminently a "convivial mass murder" game where, turn by turn, each member of each team attempts to produce a maximum of damage to his opponents.

Download:
Wormux_Portable_0.8-PRERELEASE1.paf.exe

Installed Size: 64.1MB

Notes:

• This app was requested in the past (by me! ) and someone said they were going to do it over here, but nothing has shown up yet. Well, I'm filling my own request!
• Yes, I know this is a "beta" from the Wormux website. Older versions aren't available and the 0.7.9 version I have had a huge bug in it. The sound system had a big "hitch" in it where a player could use a weapon and then they would hear the sound of the weapon about a second later. Also, no music was heard at all. This version fixes those two things along with new menus, etc.
• If you'd like more maps, download them from this page. Ignore the direction of that webpage and extract the directory in the tar.bz2 files (including the files in the directory) to the .\WormuxPortable\App\wormux\data\maps\ directory. If there's an issue, just extract the files so they're similar to the files already contained in the map dir.
• Wormux outputs two debug text files -- the portable launcher cleans these up (deletes them) when you close the app.
• Squished files as much as I could to save space:
  • Program files compressed with UPX -- 14.7MB down to 5.9MB (used NRV2E)
  • PNGs compressed with OptiPNG -- 30.8MB down to 28.2MB
• Use the links in the help.html file in the root dir of the portable app if you need help with Wormux.

TODO:

• Replace temp splash with a *real* splash screen (no comments from the peanut gallery about the current splash. My MSPaint skillz > yours )
• Replace the NSIS arrow.bmp used to fill in for wizard.bmp - this should happen when John releases the "community helper pack" (the name I just made up for it...not the official name)
• Figure out the numbering convention for beta software. Does "0.8beta2" = 0.8.2.0 or 0.8.0.0? I'll get better words and possibly renumber things when the next version of splash screens and whatnot are released to us from John.