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The search box on the app doesn't work, as other people described in the thread (namely it fails to actually search). In my case I typed "spacechem" into the only visible search box in the app. I simply cannot get it to perform the search - pressing enter shows me a seemingly random game. Other people have posted screenshots of the issue in this thread.

All I noted was that I could perform a search in the app by reenabling the search box. The "index_page .index_sidebar .game_search" is a CSS selector that refers to the search box that has been hidden from the sidebar in the app.

That said, it appears this has been repeatedly reported as broken, eg https://github.com/itchio/itch/issues/3095 

Could you consider simply removing the "display: none" on .index_page .index_sidebar .game_search in the stylesheet as a short term workaround? It does seem that search works in the box that appears when you do this.

I am sure that this is costing itch users - I'd have moved over to another site if I didn't know I could get the game I want on the website. 

This is quite unfortunate. I decided to go in to the app to look up spacechem. When I click search it comes up with random other games. If I didn't know it was on itch I'd have headed over to steam to get it.

The really confusing part is that proper search seems deliberately disabled. If I find "<form class="game_search" action="/search"><input placeholder="Search games & creators" required="required" name="q" class="search_input" type="text"></form>" in the web developer tools and remove "display: none" then I can just type "spacechem" in the box that appears and search just fine.

Okay, so i was only looking for examples of twine games, but this drew me in and stole quite a few hours. It is really really well written.

Linux temperance 4.9.0-12-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.9.210-1 (2020-01-20) x86_64 GNU/Linux

I'm mostly just posting so other people can make it work.

At first it was hanging. When I sent ^C, I got:

ALSA lib confmisc.c:674:(snd_determine_driver) could not open control for card 0
ALSA lib conf.c:3328:(snd_config_hooks_call) function snd_config_hook_load_for_all_cards returned error: Invalid argument

and it would start without sound.

To get this to work with sound I had to edit ./Neocolonialism to contain the line:

export SDL_AUDIODRIVER='dsp'

This might mean that a library is missing. Perhaps running "ldd ./neocol" will give you some information, and it might be as simple as installing another package.