How to make game play?

Did you install the game? What happens when you run Chobby.exe?

Please don't delete the above posts, so if people accidentally believe knorke has some non-trollish motives, they can be referred here.

and here http://zero-k.info/lobby/Zero-K.exe
and here http://zero-k.info/lobby/Zero-K_NET4.0.exe
and here http://zero-k.info/lobby/Zero-k.setup.exe
and here http://zero-k.info/lobby/setup.exe
and here http://loadion.com/en/download_getfile_en_8597448.html
...and so many other places \o/

the last link was flagged by my antivirus immediately as a potential threat.

That's not a link reachable through the official ZK sites. You probably found it via googling for the exe or something...

> That's not a link reachable through the official ZK sites. You probably found it via googling for the exe or something...

it is on chip.de - biggest german computer magazine.
other sites also offer more setup downloads, for example indiedb.
no idea if those are still reachable through ZK site, afaics does not matter.

knorke needs to have -10000 ELO

it seems his point was "there's conflicting/outdated zk installation instructions and files spread throughout the internets, needs cleanup"

If I google "zero k installer", the first two results are the official zk site, but on the first page there's indiedb and moddb, which link to a file from january 2017 (probably kind of up to date) apparently called "Zero-k.setup.1.exe". Different filenames are confusing.

One of the results points to this thread, which seems outdated.

Instead of reiterating the same points over and over, imo he should state them directly once or twice then use the energy to actually play the game...

And I don't get the hostility to the donations thing. In terms of effort (not server costs) ZK is probably underfunded, as are most spring projects, including the engine itself.