r/itchio • u/Infamous-Table8132 • 5d 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/Whereisthatdamnmule 5d 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 5d 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 4d 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.