The game doesn't run by default.

A topic by Gofri created Apr 01, 2021 Views: 416 Replies: 2

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Gofri3 years ago

Hi. I checked the game and find a few things that prevent the game to run by default.

First:

I always using a file-manager and just simply clicked on the "Content" file. Nothing happened.

Turned out that the executable bit are not set at the "Content" shell-script, so the game won't run by default.

Second:

After I set the executable bit, and clicked on the file, the game still can not start.

So I run it in a terminal and saw that it gives this error:

"Content: line 17: /home/gofri/Games/Content/data/ags64: Permission denied"

I cheked that file and all the permissions are fine.

After a while I figured out what was the problem:

I never saw anything like this, but the problem was that the access permission of the "data" folder was "none" by default.
You should fix these, because an unexperienced, casual Linux user can't run the game and maybe think it is not working.

After I manually corrected all these things, the game runs perfectly, but I find some things that prevented me to play your game:

My native language is not English, I need way more much time to read everything; the text is changing too fast.

Because of this, I just quit the game at the "intro" sequence, I lost the whole thing about the third sentence...

It would be great if the texts advance only by pressing a button (mouse or keyboard).

Also I find the music too queit, and there is no option to set it separately.

I really want to play your game, because I really love your pixel art! Looks really cool! It reminds me of the DOS era adventure games, that I liked very much, when I was a kid.

Thanks for making it, I hope you will fix and improve the game!

ukz530Developer3 years ago (1 edit)

Thank you for playing my game! First of all, I released it on Linux because I knew there was a user I wanted to play in Linux environment environment.

But I'm not ready for the Linux environment. i'm so sorry

I expected the game to run the same as the window environment. Unfortunately, it wasn't.

So right now, I'm going to remove the Linux version download button. I'm trying to release the Linux environment when it's ready.

I'm so sorry again T_T

I'll consider modifying the rest of the feedback (sound, text, etc.).

Thank you so much for your feedback!

Gofri3 years ago

That is unfortunate. Can't you just simply change the permissions on those files?

If you don't have Linux on your computer, I think you can just boot into a Linux LiveCD and correct the permissions.

Meanwhile, I tried a few other games downloaded from ITCH.IO too, and it is very strange, but some of them have this exact same issues with permissions.

On the other hand, other native Linux games, like those I have on GOG or from Steam, never have any problems with permissions.

So it seems to be the problem not your fault!

I don't know how these things work, maybe it is somthing to do with ITCH.IO?
Or maybe the engine, the programming environment (sorry I don't know how it is called) those Linux games written, is responsible for this? Or maybe it is something to do with the Linux distro that I use? You know, there are lot of different Linux variants out there, lot of thigs are so different compared to other Linux, maybe on an other Linux this problem won't occures?

(I think I have an unused laptop somewhere, with different Linux istalled on it, so I can give it a try and see if that machine have this same issue. But, you removed the Linux download...)

I think you should keep the Linux version, please leave the download up, because -regardless of this problem- the games runs without any problem. And in my experience, this is a rare thing! Beacuse (sadly) ~50% of the Linux games I downloaded from here doesn't even work no matter what. They just simply doesn't work. But yours works perfectly after fixing those permissions.

So, how about keeping the Linux version, and simply write it in the descriptio, that on the Linux version maybe the user need to change the permissions. You know, more platform, more people can play your game.

And of course, I'm very happy that you considered what I wite about the gameplay. Keep up the work!

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