how can i upload a love2d game to gamejolt?

[lemon_juice]

hello everyone!! i have just created an account here because i wanna progress in my journey of creation, i wanna make a game about anything really and post the progress on youtube,
and what better place to post that game than gamejolt?
a place where i spent most of my childhood downloading indie games, i wanna be part of them too!! but, i have just started programming, slowly, and between the thing or two that i know how to do is programming in love2d.


But, i dont know how to upload a game there! i wish to upload the game that i have already created (a very simple agr.io tipe game) to start with something, and i wanted to ask here if any of you guys know how to upload a game to gamejolt so i can progress in my journey.

[idbrii]

I found makelove really easy to use for making executables and love.js builds.

Assuming you have python installed:

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pip3 install makelove
cd path/to/your/project
makelove --init
makelove --version-name 0.1 lovejs win32

You'll have zip files with a win32 (.exe) build and a lovejs (web/html) build appropriate for uploading.

win32 builds usually work without much effort, so if gamejolt supports downloads that might be enough.

If you get a KeyError when building lovejs, you need to install my version of makelove where I fixed some Windows bugs:

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pip3 install git+http://github.com/idbrii/love-makelove.git@dev#egg=makelove

My patches also add support for uploading to itch.io if you wanted to try that instead of gamejolt.

If your lovejs build doesn't work, check the lovejs project's tips and the compatability section in this guide. It can take a bit of fiddling to get lovejs working, so good luck!