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Latest Release: v0.5.0 (March 31, 2021)

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Windows

The Microsoft™ Windows release of Sketchy Maze currently comes as a ZIP file that you can extract anywhere and then run the doodle.exe program to start the game.

Note: I do not yet have a code signing certificate for the Windows release, so you may need to click through the "Unknown Publisher" warning.

Let me know if you need a 32-bit build of this game.


Mac OS

The macOS release of Sketchy Maze comes in two varieties: a traditional "Sketchy Maze.app" in a .dmg file or a form similar to Windows and Linux with a ZIP file that you can extract anywhere and run the doodle program to start the game.

Note: I do not yet have a code signing certificate for the macOS release; you're expected to know how to run apps from unverified developers. See Apple's documentation how to do this for your version of macOS.


GNU/Linux

Flatpak (All Distros)

The easiest cross-distro way to download Sketchy Maze is via Flatpak, which is well supported on most popular Linux distributions including Fedora, Ubuntu, Debian and others.

# Download the .flatpak package. NOTE: it's distributed as a stand-alone app
# for now, a flatpak repo will be added at some point.
$ wget https://download.sketchymaze.com/release/v0.5.0/sketchy-maze-0.5.0.flatpak

# Install the .flatpak package.
$ flatpak install --user sketchy-maze-0.5.0.flatpak

# Run it. There should also be a standard app launcher in your menu.
$ flatpak run com.sketchymaze.Doodle

Fedora (.rpm)

Ubuntu & Debian (.deb)

Tarball

You can download Sketchy Maze as a .tar.gz archive which you can extract anywhere and run. The binary is built on a modern Fedora system and hopefully should run as-is on other modern GNU/Linux systems, but sometimes shared library versions of SDL2 may not match your computer.

For the daring, Sketchy Maze almost works on the Pinephone. Try the aarch64 version of the tarball, built on Mobian on Pinephone.


Previous Releases

Project: Doodle v0.4.0 and Older

Older alpha builds of Sketchy Maze (codenamed Project: Doodle) are available from blog posts on the author's personal website. These releases mainly targeted Linux and Windows with the occasional Mac OS version.