ok I got it. It is a folder naming issue obviously. But not because of the game folders. But because of my itch folder name
I moved
~/games/itch.io/littlebug/
to
~/littlebug/
and it worked out!
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wondering why it still didn’t work when game placed in
~/games/littlebug/
I looked deeper. the issue was related to 2 similars folder names. On my system I get:
~/games
~/Games
so littlebug executatble got confused between those two
the good news is this little command fix the issue forever:
ln -s ~/games/itch.io ~/Games/itch.io
\o/