Issues with publishing game for Ubuntu Linux/ Firefox/ OpenLaszlo?

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I'm currently building a game using Flash 8 Pro, that is to be used on Linux systems.

If possible the code is to be made open source.

Does anybody know what the best way of doing this is?

I'm fairly new to this, but it seems like these options may be available to me:

1. Publish the game in HTML, and run in a Firefox window on Linux machines. Forget about the open source thing.

2. Publish the game as an .exe, and install an application called Wine (think this is a Windows emulator?) on all the Linux systems. Forget about the open source thing.

3. Publish the game as an .exe, and embed it in an openLaszlo wrapper, making it open source (?). Then install Wine on all Linux machines.


Are these the only options available to me? What are the drawbacks and difficulties involved?
Any additional info or links would be greatly appreciated! :)

[peptobismol]

What's the question? To make it open source?

Just copy & paste your code to a txt file or let people download your source fla file...

And who makes exe for linux. THat's nuts.

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Well my secondary concern is making the application open source - sounds like that's not too much of a problem then. So simply making the code available to others makes it open source (sorry for my ignorence, but I'm still quite new to this)?

My prime concern however, is getting this game to run smoothly on Linux.
If possible I'd like to run the game full screen.

So by the sounds of it making an .exe would not be a good idea?
Alternatively I could just publish as HTML, and use FireFox? But I've heard there may be perfomance issues with this?

Any suggestions? Thanks in advance!

[peptobismol]

Yeah, you can't export an executable for linux. You option is to play it in a browser.

http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash&P2_Platform=Linux&P3_Browser_Version=Netscape4

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Ok thanks.

Anybody got any experience publishing any Flash 8 pro applications for Linux FireFox?
If so;

- Can I make the game run full screen, or am I stuck with the FF border?
- How can I deal with poor (framrate) performance?
- Are there any other issues I should be aware of?

Cheers!