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FelipeEmos22 hours ago (1 edit) (+1)

I'm sorry about the last comment ( this is EDITED )

I was reviewing a bunch and messed up the game pages, I pasted the wrong text ( it was for a another game )

I am playing in Linux and unfortunately I couldn't open the game :/

Maybe you could export your Godot Project for web??? It's pretty easy and it plays well on Itch

I'll paste here my terminal output in case you're curious. I'm on NixOS with a Wayland COSMIC Desktop Environment in an Intel Thinkpad Laptop



~/Downloads/misc/Ocean_Heart_Linux/Linux

  ❯ ./Ocean\ Heart.x86_64

Godot Engine v4.7.1.stable.mono.official.a13da4feb - https://godotengine.org

ERROR: Can't load XCursor dynamically.

   at: DisplayServerX11 (platform/linuxbsd/x11/display_server_x11.cpp:6853)

WARNING: Display driver x11 failed, falling back to wayland.

     at: setup2 (main/main.cpp:3376)

WARNING: Can't load the Wayland client library.

     at: init (platform/linuxbsd/wayland/wayland_thread.cpp:5480)

ERROR: Could not initialize the Wayland thread.

   at: DisplayServerWayland (platform/linuxbsd/wayland/display_server_wayland.cpp:2301)

ERROR: Can't create the Wayland display server.

   at: create_func (platform/linuxbsd/wayland/display_server_wayland.cpp:2269)

ERROR: Unable to create DisplayServer, all display drivers failed.

Use "--headless" command line argument to run the engine in headless mode if this is desired (e.g. for continuous integration).

   at: setup2 (main/main.cpp:3386)

WARNING: 5 ObjectDB instances were leaked at exit (run with `--verbose` for details).

     at: cleanup (core/object/object.cpp:2536)

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Kai21 hours ago (2 edits)

Hiya! It looks like you're missing some device drivers, or are you on 32 bit? have you got Direct X 11 or equivalent alternatives? It's common for gaming on linux. I'm on Fedora and am on x64 and haven't had issues. Apologies the game hasn't worked for you. If you're on 32, I can make a 32 bit build for linux. We unfortunately cannot export to web because we chose to use Godot 4 with C# and did not want to use gdscript or Godot 3, so we sacrificed a bit there. Regardless, thanks for taking a look at our game :)

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Kai21 hours ago

Just went to add an export for linux x86_32 architecture, but cannot add downloads until after the jam. Apologies, due to time constraints we only included certain platforms and architectures.

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FelipeEmos20 hours ago (1 edit) (+1)

After some research I made it work

Since NixOS doesn't follow a FHS filesystem, even though I had the dependencies installed I had to put them on "nix-ld" to make them visible to your game and mimic a FHS :)

It worked after adding these pkgs to nix-ld: libxext libxcursor wayland libxkbcommon libpulseaudio alsa-lib

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FelipeEmos20 hours ago(+1)

Congratulations on the game!!!

Btw, I didn't know about that Godot 4 C# Web limitation, that's unfortunate

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Kai19 hours ago(+1)

Wow thanks so much for going through that effort to play our game <3! We hope you enjoyed

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FelipeEmos19 hours ago

It was a pleasure... you've spent hours making it, I kinda felt weird not wanting to spend a couple of minutes to figure out how to play it ^^

Btw, I'm curious about the C# choice, maybe you're very familiar with it... ? 

I know that for big projects, like Slay The Spire 2, it is an obvious choice over GDScript ( although some would still prefer gdscript ). The tooling is more robust for C# and I'm a really big fan of strong type safety, I know it helps a lot for big projects. That being said, I've used gdscript for this jam for my game and I'm sure it was an awesome choice! It is quite practical and intuitive... also the tooling is not that bad!

So now that I know a web build would be impossible with C#, the gdscript option ( for a jam ) seems the way to go ( for me )

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Kai19 hours ago (1 edit)

Thanks :). I'm a full time software engineer and can have quite strong preferences when it comes to languages (same with my friends who worked on this game with me) - as you mentioned we prefer the typing. I also prefer the syntax. 

You're right, GDScript is probably the better option for jams in terms of speed (speed of writing the code), available documentation, and the ability to make a web build. However, C# is used much more so it helps us build our engineering portfolio and it's a language we are much more familiar with, so for us it gives a big speed boost for development, despite reduced documentation for godot. You can use libraries like the dialogue one we used with games using C# even though it's written in GDScript and generally combine with GDScript code (although it is sometimes slightly cursed and doesn't play nicely). We decided we were happy to sacrifice some ratings for us to enjoy the development experience more. My previous game jam half our scripts were in GDScript, the other half C# and we used some tricks to get them to communicate.

C# web build is possible in Godot 3 (what we've previously used), but again we decided to sacrifice ratings for development features.

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FelipeEmos18 hours ago

Great to hear your perspective on it ^^ , you're 100% right, it's all about compromises and that's ok

I'm also a fulltime software dev and I share the bad sentiment of using a tech that doesn't align with you... and of course there are other agendas as well as you've pointed out, like building a portfolio, having fun and practicing a particular skill

Just one last small thought... lately I've been facinated about the variety of tools that exist and how there isn't a perfect one. It's not even fair to compare a hammer to a screw driver, for example,... and Computer Science tools are no different. Some Domain Specific Languages, like the PDF generator language called Typst, changed something inside me hahaha.... I was so accustomed to CSS that seeing a layout approach so concise and completely different made me question some of my beliefs

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