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LÖVE on Ubuntu 8.04

Posted: Wed Jun 04, 2008 6:52 am
by 7amza
Hi , i installed LÖVE at ubuntu Hardy 8.04 and has a little problem.

I trying LÖVE i tried to apply this tutorial http://love.sourceforge.net/docs/Getting_started.html , though i can't drage the folder into LÖVE and make it work .!

Though the article of getting started , considers only LÖVE's windows executable file .!

Re: LÖVE on Ubuntu 8.04

Posted: Wed Jun 04, 2008 9:58 am
by Sardtok
I don't actually use love, but considering how dragging a file onto an application usually works in Windows.
Try:
>love /home/~user/LoveHelloWorld

That is, if your username is user and LoveHelloWorld is the Hello World application's directory which you've placed in your home dir.
Well, that's my guess anyway.

Re: LÖVE on Ubuntu 8.04

Posted: Wed Jun 04, 2008 11:40 am
by rude
On Linux, you're probably better off typing "love path/to/my/game", like Sardtok says.

Have you tried running just "love" without any parameters to verify that it works at all? You should see a hovering mini-moose. 8-)

Re: LÖVE on Ubuntu 8.04

Posted: Wed Jun 04, 2008 1:14 pm
by 7amza
Love is working from the first sight . ( the first run before i post here ) .before i added the post of help , ( i tried to do )

>love /path/to/folder/game's file .

now i know what went wrong . it's working perfectly now .
Thanks a lot Sardtok and Rude .

ahh one more thing , Hot to Package a game ? i didn't notice any tutorial -yet- about packaging the game (windows , linux ) ! is there any ?

Re: LÖVE on Ubuntu 8.04

Posted: Wed Jun 04, 2008 1:26 pm
by rude
All you need to do is create a .zip-file with all your game content, rename it to .love and run love mygame.love. Make sure that main.lua is on the root inside the .zip-file, not inside some folder!

Re: LÖVE on Ubuntu 8.04

Posted: Wed Jun 04, 2008 1:35 pm
by 7amza
Working great , thanks mate.