Whatever you may image a game is, that is not Dani's race. It is a social construct created by @BlenderDumbass to make you follow the cult of free software. And he has gone to such a length at making sure his idea is as presentable, he even created a [ScoreBoard](https://blenderdumbass.org/danisrace/scoreboard) for it. Still not a game, because a game by definition is not Dani's race. Or something like that. Ignore what I'm writing, this article is stupid, you're stupid! Okay, for real, what's the problem here? Well, I want to get the scoreboard working on Dani's race, but I'm using Winblows operating system. That means a lot of things are broken. That's because Dani's race was developed for the [Tux](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tux_%28mascot%29) operating system. First what I did was run `python.exe .\notgitwindows.py update`, which is an adapted version of notgit.py for Windows. First, it changes `/` to `\`, because Windows separates directories differently. It copies the settings.py file from a special folder called `billgates` to the main directory, because Linux writes stuff to the `/home` directory, which doesn't exist on Windows. Instead I saves it to an ad-hoc directory on Windows. This hack and some minor adjustments, make so `settings.py` doesn't have to be modified every update. I tried running the game from `UPBGE`, but it didn't get past the load screen. That's to be expected, there were changes to the `settings.py` file. As such, I went to [https://blenderdumbass.org/danisrace/download//Scripts/Settings.py](/danisrace/download//Scripts/Settings.py) and downloaded the `settings.py` file supplied by the game. Then I do a `diff -B` to see what are the changes, without whitespace. This is what I saw: ``` $ diff -B Settings.py Settingsnew.py 5a6,7 > import time > import getpass 18a21 > from Scripts import Online 31c34 < data_dir = os.path.expanduser("C:\\Superfluous\\DanisRace\\config") --- > data_dir = os.path.expanduser("~/.local/share/"+game) 165c168 < "veh_shoot" :"shoot", --- > "veh_shoot" :"shoot", 193a197,198 > settings = bge.logic.globalDict.get("settings") > 196a202,207 > if bge.logic.globalDict.get("save-game-name"): > data["name"] = bge.logic.globalDict["save-game-name"] > > data["online"] = bge.logic.globalDict.get("send-stats-online", False) > data["username"] = settings.get("username", getpass.getuser()) > 209a221,229 > > # Recording total time spent by the player in the game. > data["time-played"] = bge.logic.globalDict.get("time-played", 0) + bge.logic.getRealTime() > data["lastsession"] = { > "time-played":bge.logic.getRealTime(), > "timestamp":float(time.time()) > } > > data["cheats-used"] = bge.logic.globalDict.get("cheats-used", 0) 220a241,243 > if bge.logic.globalDict.get("send-stats-online"): > Online.SendAccount(f) > 227c250 < --- > 237a261,263 > bge.logic.globalDict["save-game-name"] = data.get("name") > bge.logic.globalDict["send-stats-online"] = data.get("online") > 254c280,286 < --- > > # To keep track of players time spent in the game > bge.logic.globalDict["time-played"] = data.get("time-played", 0) > > # Keeping track of used cheats > bge.logic.globalDict["cheats-used"] = data.get("cheats-used", 0) ``` Pretty confusing, isn't it? Well the > shows what was added, so I just add those lines, in this case there are now time and getpass functions. There were more things I added, but the steps are just copy pasting what's needed. But that's not! Oh, the malevolent gamedev BlenderDumbass doesn't want Windows users to have a nice time updating the game. He must impart suffering. The file `Scripts/Online.py`, there's a direct use of curl. But my version of Windows has `curl.exe`, meaning I had to put `Online.py` to `billgates` folder and change `notgitwindows.py` file. The issue is that `Online.py` import `notgit.py`, which has `GetGameId()` function, that's not present in `notgitwindows.py` file. So I had to manually add it. But 'twasn't as simple a M-w C-y, since there is this line: ``` return open(GETCWD()+"/.notgit/gameid").read() ``` I had to change the forward slashes to Windows' equivalent. And there's a also a need for `SaveGameID()` function, which also had to be converted. And on top of that, the function `GetSimple()` got updated as well. Which means I had to convert it to a Windows friendly language. At this point I'm considering that the 90s monopoly of Windows wasn't such a bad thing. You had a single OS you had to deal with, Linux and MacOS were for weirdos. Those were the days. Everything just werked. But now I have to patch Python code. Python! A cross-platform language. What is this C++ hell?! Besides that, for fun I changed `.notgit/gameid` file to have my username in it. FreeSoftware, you can do whatever you want! So I went to the Scoreboard [JSON file](https://blenderdumbass.org/danisrace/json/scoreboard) and saw that there were two new values: `name` and `online`. Online value must be set to true, to have a leaderboard. As such, I added these values to my `config/save.json` file, because that's where I set it in `Settings.py` file. In `config/config.json` I added the value `username` with my username. This way the game would know how I'm called. And then I ran the game. As expected it didn't run, because BlenderdDumbass hates people who use Windows. There's event this pop-up on the website that tells you to install LiGNUx. But the game didn't run not because of something I did, no 'twas a [NaN bug](/articles/so_why_the_hell_this_math_nans_out__help_me_). Seems like BlenderDumbass didn't think LiGNUx and Windows treats NaN differently, or something. But that doesn't really make sense, why would they treat it differently. Yet, by the turn of irony, I'm on the ScoreBoard. Yet, not all hope was lost. I decided to play the game while in editing mode, by pressing the button `P`. It worked! Then I loaded the game normally again. And this time it worked. How, I do not know. Computers are magic and BlenderDumbass is a dumbass, so he must've written the code in such a way it works 99.999% of the time. I was able to finally try out the custom races update. **Happy Hacking!!!** Errr, *Fin*