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Latest Release: v0.14.0 (May 5, 2023)

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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 sketchymaze.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” dialog.

• 64-bit: sketchymaze-0.14.0-windows-64bit.zip (188 MB)
• 32-bit: sketchymaze-0.14.0-windows-32bit.zip (188 MB)

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 sketchymaze 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.

• Apple Silicon (ARM):
  • App bundle: sketchymaze-0.14.0-macOS-arm.dmg (199 MB)
  • Zip file: sketchymaze-0.14.0-macos-arm.zip (188 MB)
• Intel 64-bit (legacy):
  • App bundle: sketchymaze-0.14.0-macOS-x64.dmg (182 MB)
  • Zip file: sketchymaze-0.14.0-macos-x64.zip (180 MB)

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.

• 64-bit: sketchy-maze-0.14.0.flatpak (175 MB)
• ARM aarch64: sketchy-maze-0.14.0-aarch64.flatpak (175 MB)

There is not a Flatpak repository for this game yet; inclusion on Flathub or a custom Flatpak repository for easier install/updates is being considered.

To install the Flatpak manually:

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# 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/v0.14.0/linux/sketchy-maze-0.14.0.flatpak

# Install the .flatpak package.
$ flatpak install --user sketchy-maze-0.14.0.flatpak

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

Fedora (.rpm)

• 64-bit: sketchy-maze-0.14.0-1.x86_64.rpm (186 MB)
• 32-bit: sketchy-maze-0.14.0-1.i386.rpm (186 MB)
• ARM aarch64: sketchy-maze-0.14.0-1.aarch64.rpm (186 MB)

Ubuntu & Debian (.deb)

• 64-bit: sketchy-maze_0.14.0_amd64.deb (186 MB)
• 32-bit: sketchy-maze_0.14.0_i386.deb (186 MB)
• ARM aarch64: sketchy-maze_0.14.0_arm64.deb (186 MB)

Notice: the game depends on SDL2, SDL2-ttf and SDL2-mixer but the .deb package doesn’t declare these dependencies for compatibility between Debian and Ubuntu which name these packages distinctly. The following command should install these dependencies for all versions of Ubuntu and Debian:

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# Install SDL2 dependencies
sudo apt install libsdl2-dev libsdl2-ttf-dev libsdl2-mixer-dev

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.

• 64-bit: sketchymaze-0.14.0-linux-64bit.tar.gz
• 32-bit: sketchymaze-0.14.0-linux-32bit.tar.gz
• ARM aarch64: sketchymaze-0.14.0-linux-aarch64.tar.gz

Sketchy Maze also works on Linux smartphone devices such as the Pinephone and Librem 5. Check out the aarch64 releases, built on Mobian testing (bookworm). The .deb package works best on Mobian!

Previous Releases

For older versions of Sketchy Maze please browse the releases site.

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.

• Project: Doodle v0.4.0 – Nov 24, 2020
• Project: Doodle v0.3.0 – Sept 19, 2020
• Project: Doodle v0.2.0 – June 7, 2020
• Project: Doodle v0.1.0 – Apr 13, 2020
• Project: Doodle v0.0.10 – July 9, 2019