Re: Looking for Sponsor for Space-Attack_2 Game

Thank you all for the helpful response.

I new you could packages Godot as a single binary or as a pck file,
but I was unaware of the Godot3-runner package in the repositories.
That does make a lot of sense in saving space and I would assume I
wouldn't have to compile for separate architectures.  So I will be
looking into that.
--thank you Christian.

Sylvain, yeah I thought that the Debian servers would want to build it
from source, I just wasn't sure how to set it up to do that, and I 
didn't want to come here with nothing which is why I made my own deb
files. I'm currently reading up on dh_make and debuild (is this what I 
should be looking at?).  

I'll definitely be checking out all the links everyone has
provided in their responses.  

Honestly I was a little afraid that I might get some mean responses,
but everyone has been very helpful.  I hope to get back things sorted
out soon, but I'm sure I'll be back with more questions.

Thanks again,
Kris Occhipinti

On Mon, Feb 08, 2021 at 10:28:18PM +0100, Christian Mauduit wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I've been lurking for years on this list without posting anything, but I
> think I should now jump in and add my grain of salt, as I am also
> developing games on Godot.
> 
> So, the thing is that Godot is *already* packaged on Debian, see:
> 
> https://packages.debian.org/buster/godot3 (3.0)
> https://packages.debian.org/bullseye/godot3 (3.2)
> 
> So the general case, and I think it's your case Kris, is that it is good
> enough to just produce a `.pkg` file, which can be done by running godot
> with the right args. Eg on
> https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/getting_started/workflow/export/exporting_projects.html
> they give a typical command (to be ran within your source tree) :
> 
> godot --path path/to/project --export "pck" game_name.pck
> 
> Once this pck is built, the game is runnable by just running the generic
> godot binary (maybe even godot3-runner is enough
> https://packages.debian.org/bullseye/godot3-runner ) and feeding it with
> the right pck file. It's like running prboom with the appropriate .wad file.
> 
> There are more complex cases with Godot, especially when developers use
> other languages than the default gdnative language, but I skimmed
> quickly through your code Kris, and apparently you do not use C# or any
> gdnative extension.
> 
> The advantage of just packaging the .pck and using the generic godot
> runner is that there is only one binary, it saves resources, and all the
> problems which arise and are solved for Godot, will be solved for your
> game too. When a Godot bug is fixed, your package may remain the same,
> people will just download the updated Godot engine and run your game
> with the fixed version. At least in theory. Also you will not have to
> deal with dependencies, just state godot3 is a dev dependency (you need
> it to produce the .pck, likely) and godot3-runner is a dependency, and
> you're all set. Godot packages will pull any sub-dependency as needed.
> 
> Long story made short -> try to just package a .pck and rely on the
> packaged godot binary. It will be easier to find a sponsor this way I think.
> 
> My 2c, hope that helps.
> 
> Christian.
> 
> On 08/02/2021 17:58, Sylvain Beucler wrote:
> > Hi!
> > 
> > To create a package included in Debian, it needs to be rebuilt from
> > source (i.e. we can't repack our own binaries as .deb, for all kind of
> > reasons, and they'll be rebuilt by the Debian autobuilders anyway).
> > 
> > In this case you'll probably need to create a new source package
> > template using dh_make, and depend on
> > https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=godot3-runner
> > 
> > See also:
> > https://wiki.debian.org/Games/Development
> > 
> > Cheers!
> > Sylvain
> > 
> > On 08/02/2021 15:51, Kris Occhipinti wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> I've created a game and I'm looking to get it into the Debian
> >> repositories.
> >>
> >> I've created deb packages for i386 and amd64, although I've never
> >> created deb packages before, and I'm not sure I did everything right,
> >> the packages seem to install fine on test machines I've setup.
> >>
> >> I'm not even sure if I'm suppose to create the Deb packages or if that
> >> is something done by the sponsor.
> >>
> >> I wrote all the code and it's under the GPLv3 and assets I found under
> >> the CC BY-SA
> >>
> >> A few things I'm not sure about with my deb packages:
> >> It uses the Godot Game Engine, which creates standalone binaries, so I'm
> >> not sure about what I should set for dependencies.  I would assume xorg
> >> should be in there, but other than that, I'm not sure what is needed.  I
> >> tested it on a pretty minimal install of Debian and everything worked.
> >>
> >> The other thing is a man file.  I've never created one and I'm not sure
> >> if I need to, since there are no shell arguments to pass it.
> >>
> >> As a Debian user for over 10 years now I really look for to learning
> >> this process (and I'm working on another game right now that I am very
> >> excited about and hope to get in the repositories when it's completed).
> >>
> >> The game's source code is here:
> >> https://gitlab.com/metalx1000/space-attack-2
> >>
> >> Binaries and deb packages are here:
> >> https://gitlab.com/metalx1000/space-attack-2/-/tree/master/bin/release/linux
> >>
> >>
> >> Thank you
> >>
> > 
> > 
> 
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