Hi Trouble, That's precisely my concern. Newbies are, well, newbies and they are bound to make newbie mistakes that may cause problems running my games. I could easily see someone writing me saying they got such and such an error running my games, I ask them if they installed SDL, and they say no because they didn't know how to. Things like this can easily be resolved by a installer using Inno Setup etc.
The only thing is if I do all that then I'm going to have to add platform specific environment variables to save games etc because each and every platform is different. I didn't want to deal with all that BS, but you are probably right it would be worth doing after the game is out of beta stage. Cheers! On 6/10/13, john <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Thomas, > In my opinion there are pros and cons to each. > If you decide to go with the installer, you can have it > automatically set up program icons, desktop shortcuts, > dependencies, etc. On the other > hand, you'd need to build an installer for each os. > If you decide that zip is the way to go, I can guarantee > that you'll have people running the game from within the archive. > You'll also have people who don't install any dependencies, and > there won't be any shortcuts for easy access. > I guess in the long run it comes down to what type of > computer user you want to target the game towards. If you decide > that you want it to be newbie-friendly then you pretty much have > to use an installer. If you don't mind newbies having extra > frustrations to deal with, then an archive will work. I > personally would say that it's probably worth the extra time to > create multiple installers, just to insure that everybody gets > an equal experience. I'd also go so far as to say that using an > archive is likely going to give you some headaches as far as > debugging goes; there's no way to be sure where people are going > to put the game's files. --- Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [email protected]. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [email protected].
