LÖVE

the LOVE documentation is absolutely no help to me with this.

According to the documentation, I can drag my main.lua file onto the executable and it'll load the game. It's doesn't work like that in Ubuntu. So how do I do this?

dragging main.lua....? no: file.love

do you know what a console/terminal/command-line is?

love .

if the main.lua is in the folder

love file.love

if there is a file.love

yes, I know what a terminal is. I've been using linux for over a year now, mostly ubuntu and fedora. That's not the problem.

now, could you explain what I need to do in coherent sentences?

open term
goto the folder where your .love file is
type in love name.love

OR

open term
goto the folder where your project's main.lua script is
type in love .

I had the same problem. You need to tell love to open the folder (not the file) of your project. I do it this way
1. Open terminal
2. Type "love "
3. Drag my project folder onto the terminal
4. Press "Enter" on my keyboard!

okay, I think I got it. Now I need to start learning lua.

A post I made about assigning the filetype to love: http://love2d.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=530

ac3raven wrote:the LOVE documentation is absolutely no help to me with this.

Sorry, should probably fix that.