Ostrich Riders failed to work on Mint because of the hard-coded path to the font file. I asked on the FreeGameDev forum what is the best way to find a font file. In general the response was don't bother just include the font with your game. I know Fedora and other distributions don't like that. I decided to write up an article talking about changing Ostrich Riders to use fontconfig library. Hopefully it will encourage other developers to handle fonts in a more distribution friendly way.
http://identicalsoftware.com/games/ostrichriders2
On Tue, 2016-04-12 at 11:34 -0400, Dennis Payne wrote:
Ostrich Riders failed to work on Mint because of the hard-coded path to the font file. I asked on the FreeGameDev forum what is the best way to find a font file. In general the response was don't bother just include the font with your game. I know Fedora and other distributions don't like that. I decided to write up an article talking about changing Ostrich Riders to use fontconfig library. Hopefully it will encourage other developers to handle fonts in a more distribution friendly way.
Looks great!
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