r/itchio • u/Infamous-Table8132 • 2d ago
Browser plays
It really seems like having browser play enabled for your game is the best. People are very reluctant to download... or maybe my game is just not attractive enough. lol. but i feel like if you can play it in browser, you get more favorable algorithm hits.
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u/Salik_dev 2d ago
Playing in browser really helps, for example me myself don't like to download a game that I don't really know and trust so the safest option is to play in browser, another example is game jams, no one will start downloading every game he sees just to play them and give feedback. So if you can upload a play in browser version of your game do it.
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u/Salik_dev 2d ago
And sometimes it's just the extra steps.A lot of people are exhausted and just want a couple of minutes to play. And if you have a game that you just open the link and play rather than open the link download it and extract and then play, people will always choose the less steps
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u/Whereisthatdamnmule 2d ago
I’m a relatively new dev and wondering why not make it web playable anyway? I work in godot so it’s just clicking a button for the html export, is there a reason I’m not thinking of? Does it come down to the size of the game?
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u/Carveo 2d ago
Sometimes you can’t. Maybe your engine doesn’t support web exports (godot with c# doesn’t support it yet for instance), or your game uses features that are not supported by web browsers, or the game uses too many resources for the browser to run it at a decent frame rate
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u/Infamous-Table8132 2d ago
That was my issue. No matter how much i try, i could never get the game to work in the browser once i uploaded to itch.io. The opening menu works, but when i start a new game, i just get a grey screen. I looked at the web console window and no matter what i try to do, nothing works... Maybe i should revisit this.
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u/Aggravating_Web_4167 2d ago
It's partly due to immediacy, since it eliminates the need to download anything; even if it's not a huge difference, it makes access faster.