Good news for Linux users re Ren'Py games!

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Are you a Linux user, who found a potentially interesting Ren’Py game that’s (sigh) Windoze-only?
Simple trick to try:

  1. Find another Ren’Py game that uses the same version of Python (many use the older 2.7). The example I tried was Python 3.9, so I used MurMur 6.1 from this site as the “donor”.
  2. copy the entire %gamefullname%/lib/py3-linux-x86_64 directory to %newgame%/lib.
  3. rename the %gameshortname% file inside that directory (in this case, murmur) to %newgameshortname% (no extension!)
  4. make sure that this file has execution permission set
  5. copy the %gameshortname%.sh file from the %gamefullname% base directory to new game’s base directory.
  6. rename the copied *.sh to %newgameshortname%.sh
  7. make sure that our new *.sh has execute permission set
  8. double click the *.sh file (in most desktops) to play. YMMV. Any disappointment after that is your own.
    HOPEFULLY the dev will see this and start including the files in the download!
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I didn’t try it, but another idea would be to try renpy2linux,
though it’s so old it will certainly require some modifications, like:

python -c 'from renpy import version_tuple; print ".".join(str(i) for i in version_tuple[:3])'

to:

python3 -c 'from renpy import version_tuple; print(".".join(str(i) for i in version_tuple[:3]))'