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Publish your game to itch.io

What is crawling.io?

itch.io is an open marketplace for contained digital creators with a focus on independent video games. It's a platform that enables anyone to sell/share the content they've created.

Creators have access to detailed analytics and about how people discover, download, or play what they've created.

Why itch.io?

  • It is completely costless

  • Easy to prepare the content for upload

  • Piece of cake to update the uploaded files

  • A Devlog can be shared

  • You can set upward a Customs Forum or Permit Comments only or none

  • No quality requirements, anything tin be shared

  • SEO friendly, anything you upload can exist easily found in Search Engines.

  • Y'all tin share downloadable games for Windows, Linux, Mac, Android and also HTML5 games played in the browser.

  • Yous can make money without starting your ain business organisation and pay taxes. itch.io can collect the money, deal with refund requests and pay the required taxes on your behalf and you tin request a payout whatsoever time.

  • In example you lot do want to start your own business, crawling.io can accept care of the transaction for you lot and transfer each purchase straight to you, but and so you lot need to take intendance of Refunds and Taxes

  • You tin can set a fixed price for your content, share it freely or accept a donation. You lot can too set an unique selection where payment is necessary but the amount is decided by the user himself.

  • Acquirement share is too flexible which makes itch.io the well-nigh unique, you can decide how much acquirement share you want to pay to itch.io and yes you can set this value to 0 if yous want and pay nothing yet itch.io still happy to host your content for costless and hope if yous are successful you are going to consider to pay something to them.

  • No abrasive Ads on Browser games

  • Yous can now also connect itch.io with Patreon and offer admission to content to those who support you through Patreon.

Building the Bundle

Creating a Zip Annal of your Export

Preparing a game for crawling.io is actually simple. The only thing you need to practise is to go the folder containing your exported game and annal it into a Nada file. Make certain the index.html file is in the archived folder and non in a sub-binder inside information technology.

To archive your game folder, you are going to need an archiving tool. The 1 I'thousand using is called 7-Zip I have been using 7-Zip for ages, to be honest, I tin can't even call back using anything else so this is what I recommend. After downloading and installing it, but right click on the folder containing your game and nosotros should accept 7-Zip in your list with the pick to add to the annal.

Afterwards selecting the add to annal option, in that location are many unlike options we can tweak, just the only 1 nosotros are interested in right now is the OK button on the bottom. This will create our ZIP archive, ready to upload to itch.io

If yous don't take the quick option in your listing, you tin launch 7-Cypher manually, browse the folder you want to archive, select information technology and so click the Add button on the top It will bring up the same window as the quick choice where you demand to press OK.

Uploading your project to itch.io

Next, you demand to create an account at itch.io that I won't explain in particular as the steps should be no different from other places you accept registered before.

Once you have an itch.io account, yous want to login and you lot desire to go to your Dashboard. Hither you should find a Create new project button

Afterward clicking the push button, you tin can setup your projection, I go through only the most important options required to share your game.

  • Title: this is the title of your game

  • Project URL: this is the URL where your game can exist found at crawling.io, it usually takes the form of yourname.crawling.io/your-game-title. The game title in the URL can be annihilation, information technology is up to you lot what you going to choose but it must be unique, tin can non be the same as other game titles in your library.

  • Classification: here y'all tin can choose what kind of content you desire to upload, a game or a volume maybe. nosotros obviously desire to select game hither

  • Kind of project: hither you can select what kind of project you want to upload, is it downloadable or a HTML or Flash game, in this case we want to cull the HTML. Subsequently you can add downloadable files that can be purchased or downloaded for free

  • Pricing: this is where you lot can set if your game needs to be purchased or you take a donation or you lot don't want any payment. If yous do desire payment, you can ready how much your game toll or how much donation you lot recommend

  • Uploads: this is the section where you tin actually upload your project and you want to click on the Upload files button

Once you clicked the push button, you want to scan and select the Aught file nosotros have created earlier and information technology is going to be uploaded to itch.io. Once the upload is washed, yous can choose from several options

Yous can choose if the file you accept just uploaded is an executable, a book, source code or a mod. But the almost important option for u.s.a. "This file volition exist played in the browser". By ticking the box we mark our file to be played in the browser.

You lot can also set up a platform, the price for each file you upload if y'all desire.

Don't forget to set the engine in the metadata of your game by adding the GDevelop tag! It will appear in this page on Itch.io, the games made with GDevelop.

Finally, y'all want to click on the save and view page button. After it should load a preview of the page of our game and if we did it correct, our browser game should start playing.

Sharing your Project

At present the only thing left to practice, nosotros need to set our projection to be public then anyone tin can play it. In order to do that, click on the Edit game button on the top or go dorsum to the Dashboard where our game should be listed at present and click Edit in the list.

It will take us back to the project creation page with the option bachelor on the bottom to set our projection to be public

Select the public option and click the Save button.

Now anyone should be able to find and play your browser game on itch.io. We can also share a link to the game and even embed the game in to your website if yous have one.