I found myself that the absolutely best way to get latest versions is to periodically git pull from the official repo
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and build the game myself with gradle.
By all means you are not depending on anyone this way.
All you have to do is install git, gradle and then do this.
Edit settings.gradle and remove `android` out of it.
Edit build.gradle and remove sections for `android` as well.
Run gradlew or gradlew.bat, that depends on your OS.
After that run gradle build.
Go to `desktop` folder and from there execute gradle run.
That's it.
All operations are to be performed in shell, terminal or commandline.