Yourglass: A Game of Giving

Yourglass is a game of giving. What that means is, as a real gentleman, you must excersize your duty by giving all you've got. Everything.

In coarser terms, you must rotate the hourglass (or yourglass, as it is essentially; certainly not mine) and empty your half of all the... err, sand.

Then you win. Bravo! Such breadth of heart! A show of a true gentleman.

How do I play?

The Blue gentleman has controls over the left, right and down navigation keys. While the Red gentleman peruses the a, s, d letter keys in that order.

Turning left/a or right/d will rotate the glass, ever so slightly if you merely lolligag. However, if you wish to make an impression upon the oppositi-- I mean, the needy, you will have to really insist. Which you can do by holding the down/s button. Insisting too much is frowned upon, be polite.

Running the Game

The beta is here. Which, in our rugged world-view, is the same as a stable release. The downloads are on top of this page. Your options are as follows:

If you are on Windows:

1. Download yourglass.zip.
2. Extract to anywhere, let's say... the Desktop, yes.
3. Open the folder yourglass.
4. Double-click yourglass.exe to play.

If you are on Linux, OSX or elsewhere, or, perhaps if you are as rugged and handsome as we are, you shall do the following:

1. First, install LÖVE for you system, if you haven't.
2. Download yourglass.love, the gentlemanly love package.
3. Double-click to play!

Can't download the files? Oh dear me. Are you sure the burly download button up there doesn't work either?

Rugged-Manly Stuff

The following should not interest you if your only intents are playing. However, should you be, as we said, an adventurous individual, you will do well to read it. Or not, perhaps.

Gitting Stuff

Keep forgetting git? This section may help. Or you may try the cheat-sheet.

• git add . will add all files from the working directory to the index.
• git add -u will update your tracked files to the index, effectively taking a snapshot.
• git diff and git cheackout will diff from revert you to the index.
• git commit -a -m "Commit message." will update all your tracked changes to the index, and then commit it to the local repo.
• git commit -m "Commit message." will commit the current index to the local repo.
• git diff HEAD and git checkout HEAD will diff from and revert you to the local-repo.
• git stash save "Stash message." will stash your current working directory.
• git push will push your local repo's last commit to the remote repo, if it's fresh!
• git pull origin master will get merge the remote repo's current state to your working directory.

Packaging for Windows

Not as easy as the wiki makes it sound. Though the unpacked .dlls are just as easily included with the .exe, we would rather have ONE singular file.

Instead, we follow this fine and helpful post first:

1. tar cvf yourglass.tar love.exe DevIL.dll openal32.dll SDL.dll yourglass.love
2. bzip2 -9 yourglass.tar
3. pack -i yourglass.tar.bz2 -o yourglass.exe -a love yourglass.love

There you go, a standalone Windows binary yourglass.exe. Yes, you can have it.