.exe File Doesn't Appear in Distributions Folder

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xxmissarichanxx · #1 Post by **xxmissarichanxx** » Thu Dec 11, 2014 12:23 pm

Hi! I am having trouble releasing my game.

I made my game on a mac, and I wanted to compress it and have people play/test it out. When I download the file and unzipped it, everything worked fine. However, when other mac users play it, it opens up and then quits automatically. And when I download it on a Windows computer, the .exe file doesn't appear in the folder and you can't play the game at all.

What is going on? I worked so hard on this and people can't even play it!

I updated Renpy before building distributions, and it still doesn't work. What went wrong? Please let me know ASAP because this is a final project for school and I'm having trouble explaining this to my professor.

Alex · #2 Post by **Alex** » Thu Dec 11, 2014 3:01 pm

Stupid question, but when you build distribution did you choose the "all desktop platforms" one?

xavimat · #3 Post by **xavimat** » Thu Dec 11, 2014 5:02 pm

xxmissarichanxx wrote:it opens up and then quits automatically.

If your game works fine for you, this behavior is strange.
The other users maybe have a log.txt or errors.txt file in their project directory that tells the reason of the failure. Can you post it here?

xxmissarichanxx · #4 Post by **xxmissarichanxx** » Thu Dec 11, 2014 6:06 pm

Alex wrote:Stupid question, but when you build distribution did you choose the "all desktop platforms" one?

Yes, I did choose that option. Haha >___>

xavimat wrote:
xxmissarichanxx wrote:it opens up and then quits automatically.
If your game works fine for you, this behavior is strange.
The other users maybe have a log.txt or errors.txt file in their project directory that tells the reason of the failure. Can you post it here?

The following is a link to the zip file on google drive. Let me know if you can't view it. I'll fix those options. Also, I wasn't sure how to consolidate the files more because the file is huge. If you could help me with making the files smaller, that'd help too.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5E6Kf ... sp=sharing

xavimat · #5 Post by **xavimat** » Thu Dec 11, 2014 6:25 pm

In my computer (Linux-Ubuntu 14.04) it's working fine.
I can see the ".exe", the ".app" and the ".sh"; the files for all three systems.

One thought: some computers, servers and/or intra-nets have weird security configurations. I remember a webmail system that didn't allow to download .exe from internet (it allowed .zip containing .exe, though). Maybe your users have some similar issue?

I like the aesthetic and the general dark tone. Maybe the text is a bit small.

xxmissarichanxx · #6 Post by **xxmissarichanxx** » Thu Dec 11, 2014 8:39 pm

xavimat wrote:In my computer (Linux-Ubuntu 14.04) it's working fine.
I can see the ".exe", the ".app" and the ".sh"; the files for all three systems.

One thought: some computers, servers and/or intra-nets have weird security configurations. I remember a webmail system that didn't allow to download .exe from internet (it allowed .zip containing .exe, though). Maybe your users have some similar issue?

I like the aesthetic and the general dark tone. Maybe the text is a bit small.

Thanks for letting me know! This was very helpful. I'll ask my users about their security configurations and what not.

The game is still in the works. It's by no means complete, so there's always room for editing. I thought about making the text bigger. This confirms it.

Thank you very much for your help and feedback! I'll continue working on this even after I submit it for a grade. C:

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