Cannot open a game in 0.10.2

[Swaggy-G]

Hello. I am currently doing the CS50G online course provided by Harvard. The first assignment consists of modifying a file of Pong to implement a basic AI, but I'm having trouble even getting the game opened.
I am using LÖVE 0.10.2 on mac (before anyone asks, this is the version we're supposed to be using for the course). I tried using the instruction detailed on https://love2d.org/wiki/Getting_Started, but with no luck. Dropping the assignment0 folder (the one that contains the game's files) on the love app, as well as typing "open -n -a love /Users/[My username]/Desktop/assignment0" in the terminal leads to the same result: LÖVE opens, but gives me this screen: https://love2d.org/imgmirrur/Ctk7Cu4.png
What's weird is that if I use the latest version instead, Pong does open, but I get an error message about a variable being nil or something.And if I write a path to a file that does not exist in 0.10.2 it tells me the path does not exist.
Am I missing something? Did the instructions for opening games on the "getting started" page change between versions?

[hoistbypetard]

I'm doing that course too. Definitely stick to 0.10.2 until you are very comfortable with the differences. I'm probably going to use 11.3 for my final project, now that I am getting ready to start that, FWIW.

Does '/Users/[My username]/Desktop/assignment0' directly contain main.lua? The folder you open using love needs to have a main.lua file or you see the "No Game" screen you took a shot of. The directions have not changed. But your 0.10.2 launch is not getting a folder with a 'main.lua' file at the top level, so it's showing the "No Game" scereen.

[Swaggy-G]

I'm doing that course too. Definitely stick to 0.10.2 until you are very comfortable with the differences. I'm probably going to use 11.3 for my final project, now that I am getting ready to start that, FWIW.

Does '/Users/[My username]/Desktop/assignment0' directly contain main.lua? The folder you open using love needs to have a main.lua file or you see the "No Game" screen you took a shot of. The directions have not changed. But your 0.10.2 launch is not getting a folder with a 'main.lua' file at the top level, so it's showing the "No Game" scereen.

The assignment0 folder does contain a main.lua file... I have not modified the folder the course gave us in any way.

[hoistbypetard]

In that case, try using the second method on the wiki page to run it and see if you can get a better error message.

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/Applications/love.app/Contents/MacOS/love /Users/[My username]/Desktop/assignment0

I don't have a mac handy to try on right now, but I just re-downloaded the zip and confirmed that 0.10.2 runs it fine here (Linux).