Hello Riders,

New version is built for Linux platform. Tested on Ubuntu 22.04.2.

Here is high level overview how it was achieved.

I wanted to build a game for Linux platform having Windows as my main OS.

Building

Here I considered 2 options and went with 2nd option (with Github Actions)

1. Building locally with Docker and GameCI images 

game.ci/docs/docker

• Pros
  • no external services needed to setup
• Cons

  
  

  • Need extra implementation to upload project on container and to download build from it
  • Need extra implementation to Publish to store (Steam, Google Play, App Store...)

2. Building via Github Actions using game-ci steps

github/getting-started

• Pros

  
  

  • this way everything can be handled including uploading to stores
• Cons
  • I had to move my repo to Github, but even free account can have private repositories nowadays
  • Github has 500MB storage limit in Actions for free account, so I got a warning after 2 builds of ~300MB 2D game
    • I downloaded built artifacts and removed them from Github and warnings gone

Testing game on target platform

Here I considered 3 options and went with 1st option (Linux in VirtualBox)

• Linux in VirtualBox 
  • install VM how-to-run-ubuntu-desktop
  • install Guest additions (for easier interactions from your workstation)
  • I get 500 FPS on VM when had 900 FPS when run game on workstation, pretty decent

• In Goggle Cloud virtual-workstation/linux-gpu
  • it has trial with 300$ free credit
• Dual OS on workstation (windows + linux) or separate linux machine