Pimping the list of games

[nevon]

I was browsing Pygame's website, and noticed that along the right side, they have a list of the most recent updated games - or something like that. I think it would be a good idea to pimp the list of Löve games a bit more. Up until recently, I didn't even know it existed. How about putting a link to it on the front page? To show what games can be made using Löve, and to get more people to add their games to it.

What do you think?

[bartbes]

I think you need to be punished for visiting the pygame site
But seriously, this is a good idea, like all other ideas about some place where we all dump our games.. yet we still don't have such a place.

[nevon]

I think you need to be punished for visiting the pygame site

Would you be angry with me if I told you I have contributed to a relatively major game project using Pygame...?

But seriously, this is a good idea, like all other ideas about some place where we all dump our games.. yet we still don't have such a place.

Well, there is such a place. It's just a little tricky to use. Perhaps a proper database with tags, categories, comments, etc. would be nice.

[bartbes]

Haven't been there in a while, looks pretty good now, but I still don't consider it the solution. Why did the lovehost go down? RIP lovehost.

[Robin]

Why did the lovehost go down? RIP lovehost.

We need to rebuild lovehost. We can make it better than it was before. Better, stronger, faster.

[ljdp]

It would be cool if when you launch love, instead of the lil tank, you get a list of games, click on one
and it'll download then run

Showing a list of games? Possible!
Downloading the game? Possible!
Automatically run the downloaded game? Possible?

EDIT:

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function love.load()
	game = require 'game/main.lua' 
	love.load()
end

Works beautifully. This could be my next project.

[ljdp]

Check this out! 8-)

Currently only works on OSX because i'm using os.execute() to unzip files.
Is there any way to unzip files on all platforms?

Anyway Run it once to create a folder in the 'application support' folder, then add any .love file to 'application support/gamebrowser'.
Press space and it'll load the game completely, and all require() funcs work properly.

Now all I have to do is set up an sql database, hosting space, and use luasocket to download .love files.

[schme16]

Now all I have to do is set up an sql database, hosting space, and use luasocket to download .love files.

I've got some hosting you can use, if you can suggest a good domain name that isn't taken I can purchase it and hand control over to someone who wants the job, or if no-one wants it then I can as well, being a Web Coder I could do any/all back-end but my design skills are SEVERELY lacking

TL;DR
1. I've got hosting
2. Pick a Domain Name
3. Someone can design & build the site or just design it and I can build it
4. ?????
5. Profit!

[ljdp]

Well.. I did make a working version yesterday, downloaded .love files unzipped it an all,
even made a function to download the latest repo from github and arrange the files so it loads properly.
Unfortuantly this requires the use of os.execute('unzip') which is available on mac and i think linux but not windows.
Unless a dev include LuaZip in the next version or something

[schme16]

Got bored of waiting for suggestions; Went ahead and purchased http://www.lovearcade.org/

It's not setup yet (DNS's can take up to 48 hrs to propagate globally) hopefully I'll have a simple demo site up for people to use.

...I did make a working version yesterday, downloaded .love files unzipped it an all,
even made a function to download the latest repo from github and arrange the files so it loads properly.
Unfortunately this requires the use of os.execute('unzip') which is available on mac and i think linux but not windows....

Yeah, I've just found it (in the Updater Thread)
and I hope you don't mind me having a tinker? I'm going to see if I can have the web-server do some automagic and make zip files unnecessary. but we'll see what haves eh? Hope we can work together on this ljdp!