Yep, that's the way most Linux distributions behave and it's been annoying third-party developers for years now :(
The only option that I know of is to provide a .desktop file, which will appear as a shortcut and is double-clickable to launch the game. Absolute/relative paths may be an issue there though :(
Thanks for reminding me about .desktop files! Indeed relative paths seem to be not working at all, but there's a workaround (thanks to this SO answer), use %k in Exec line of .desktop file to get path to .desktop file itself, and than extract directory name:
Exec=bash -c "$(dirname %k)/launch"
.desktop file is also better than bare bash script because it may be displayed with custom icon, and even localized name.
UPDATE about icon: looks like relative-path icon is not possible. This time really :(
That's right, the itch app uses the same engine as Chrome/Chromium - which is usually pretty good at getting WebGL running, at least on Windows/macOS, I'm surprised it doesn't seem to work with your system, maybe it's a bug on their end?
We keep in sync with Electron, which keeps in sync with Chromium, regularly, so if it gets fixed upstream, itch will get the fix as well!
Is the issue that it doesn't install? Games in draft are not yet supported by the itch app, see https://github.com/itchio/itch/issues/1080 - the problem will go away as soon as you publish the game.
Actually, I didn't bothered hitting the install button. Since it's a WebGL game, I thought that it would run on the app in the same fashion as the browser by displaying a rectangle with the game. =P
Now that the game is installed, it's working normally.
I guess that you will have to speak to the dev and it's not an issue on the platform app.
It seems to work fine in the beta:
Can you confirm it does for you too?
You can download the beta here: https://fasterthanlime.itch.io/install-kitch
I ended up doing that in the end so everything is fine now. Thanks for your suggestion! ^^
