Download

Hive Awakening 7DRL was originally released as a contribution to the 2007 7DRL Challenge. The more recent Proper Releases are bug fix versions of the original game. Both can be downloaded below.

Hive Awakening may be either downloaded as a source distribution or as a Windows binary distribution.

The most recent Proper Release is PR#2, dating from March 24th 2007.

If you are using a computer that has a Python interpreter installed, the best package for you is the source package, as it is the quicker and smaller download.

• Python 2.4.0 (or higher)
• WConio (required for Windows only)
• A Python implementation of curses (required for Linux and Mac OS — you might need to install it using your package manager)

The WConio module is required to output to the text console on Windows systems, as there is no functional curses implementation for Python available. It has to be installed separately; an installer is avaiable at the WConio website.

Source distribution
Date	File
Mar 24 2007	Proper Release #2: hive_pr2.zip (53 kb)
Mar 17 2007	The 7DRL Release: hive.zip (52 kb)

While Python is included in many, if not most Linux distributions, most Windows systems lack this excellent interpreter. For those systems I have compiled a binary package which includes all files necessary for playing Hive Awakening, so downloading neither Python nor WConio is required if you use the binary package.

The binary package is significantly larger than the source distribution, and may be compiled not for the most recent version of Hive Awakening.

Binary distribution
Date	File
Mar 24 2007	Proper Release #2: hive_win32_pr2.zip (1510 kb)
Mar 17 2007	The 7DRL Release: hive_win32.zip (1507 kb)

• Extract the files in the archieve to a directory of your choice
• Change to the directory containing the game files
• Depending on the package you've downloaded:
  From the game directiory, run: hive.exe (binary distribution)
  or
  From a command prompt, enter: python hive.py (source distribution)