I’ve found more than one Love user now who uploaded nothing more than their game’s .Love file. Now technically this is fine, since it’s everything needed to run the game AND source! How convenient!

Unless you don’t have the Love game engine installed.

Now in a normal circumstance it might be reasonable to ask someone to install the engine to run your game. However, in the case of Ludum Dare, we have a mere 599 games to play, test, and rate. When I find games that require much more work than “click link and play” or “download, unzip and run”, I find it very tempting to just move on to the next entry.

The fantastic part is that there’s a very easy solution to this! As detailed here, you can easily build executable packages for windows, linux, and mac! These binaries will be easy for users to download and run without being burdened with installing whatever additional software you might have happened to use in your project, making it quick and painless to rate.

Note that this process falls under “Porting” which you can do at any time after the submission window! So go forth my minions and make your entries ready to run!

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