Distributing your games (making a .love file)

[BlackBulletIV]

For a Linux and Mac friendly version, here's a Ruby script.
Make sure you're in the project directory when executing, and that you provide a filename for the .love file (with or without the extension).

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#!/usr/bin/env ruby

if ARGV.length == 0
    print "Usage: ./make_love_file.rb love_file_location\n"
    print "Make sure you are in the project folder when using this command..\n"
    exit 0
end

unless File.exists? 'main.lua'
    print "Directory does not contain a main.lua file.\n"
    exit 1
end

if ARGV[0]
    file = ARGV[0]
    file += '.love' unless file.end_with? '.love'
    
    `zip -r #{file} *`
    
    if $?.exitstatus == 0
        print "#{ARGV[0]}.love created successfully.\n"
    else
        print "An error occurred file creating the file.\n"
    end
else
    print "Please give a name for the .love file.\n"
    exit 1
end

EDIT: On Mac OSX, a cool thing to do is add this to your ~/.bash_profile file:

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alias lovemake="path/to/where/you/placed/script.rb"

Then you can execute like this from anywhere:

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lovemake LoveFileName

[BlackBulletIV]

I've expanded the script above into "Love Builder". Here's the topic: http://love2d.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=2436

[Victor Bjelkholm]

How can this be stickied when the video in the first post doesn't work?

[BlackBulletIV]

Spreken ze web page?

EDIT: Oh so there was a video here earlier...

[Robin]

How can this be stickied when the video in the first post doesn't work?

Check the date.

Mike has removed the videos since.

[Victor Bjelkholm]

How can this be stickied when the video in the first post doesn't work?

Check the date.

Mike has removed the videos since.

I understand that he removed the video... But I can't understand why this is still a sticky.

[obur]

hey, i'm sorry to waste your time and blablabla, but i have a problem in making my .love file to .exe in win (of course).
when i navigate to my folder that my game.love exists in dos, then when i write "copy /b love.exe+game.love game.exe" it says it's ok, everything done and stuff, but when i open the newly created game.exe, i just see love.exe's turning worms. that's all. no game, nothing else.
i can see my work clearly when i drag&drop my game to love.exe, but i just couldn't do this exe thing.
please help me.
thanks in advance.
(if i act bad, i mean rude, sorry about that. my hands are shaking because of anger..)

[bartbes]

I ehm.. probably broke it.

[obur]

so, what must i do now?

[bartbes]

You could try the 0.7.0 binary, but yeah...