LÖVE

Linux is a very different creature than Windows or OSX (actually, a little similar to OSX but that's not relevant here). People can have any number of software and hardware configurations and creating a one size fits all binary is not really possible. Chances are most gamers will use a Debain based distro, like Ubuntu, and can use .deb packages but the ones who don't are accustomed to jumping through hoops to play games.

In short, it's not really as big a deal as you might believe. Providing a love and pointing them to http://www.love2d.org/wiki/Building_L%C3%96VE should be sufficient.

Provide a .deb & .rpm for Debian and Red Hat distros. As a fallback provide a source tar.gz for other distributions. Users on any other distribution will build it themselves.

so its not possible to get a 0.9.0 version of love for linux?

jjmafiae wrote:so its not possible to get a 0.9.0 version of love for linux?

The best thing you can do (unless you're willing to put some serious effort into it) is release the .love for them.

All your other questions would have be answered if you bothered to read these pages;

http://www.love2d.org/wiki/Game_Distribution

http://www.love2d.org/wiki/Building_L%C3%96VE

but ins't that for 0.8.0?

Kind of. Most still applies for the current development version of LÖVE, except that you now need SDL2. Oh, and the executable and library are somewhere else. In build/.libs perhaps? I would have to look it up myself.

jjmafiae wrote:jesus fucking christ, i don't think any one wants to compile something in order to play a fucking computer game, can i get the link to the love 0.9.0 source? im gonna do this myself.....

wow, don't get mad bro

i wasn't mad i was tired and people were doing stupid stuff around me when i was making that msg, reply or what ever you call it, so i was a bit irritated.

so there doesn't exist an .deb of 0.9.0?

also does anyone know a good text editor for linux?

sublimetext, gedit, vim, emacs. choose one.