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Web Monetization support added to itch.io uploads!

A topic by Defold Foundation created Oct 19, 2020 Views: 1,615 Replies: 11
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Itch.io has (as a result of this jam and perhaps a bit of nagging?!) decided to add support for the "monetization" flag on the iframe used to display HTML5 game uploads. This means that from now on HTML5 games can be monetized on itch.io!

Thank you Leaf and the rest of the itch.io staff for  making this possible!

/ The Defold Foundation and the Web Monetization community

Submitted(+1)(-1)

This is great! 

That's awesome, thank you!

Submitted

I have just tried the Unity Web Monetization Simulation on my own site troicho.com and on itch.io

It worked fine with my site but not yet with itch.io at here https://gunnywatcher.itch.io/firsttest

I tried to find whether any fields in the Edit Game page of itch.io to add the "monetization" allow  option (like the full screen option) but can't find one.

Host

The iframe has allow="monetization; ..." at least when testing on Chrome. Are you still not seeing the value in the allow field of your iframe?

Submitted (1 edit) (+1)

Hello, thank you for your kind support. I check by Chrome and I can see it in Chrome now. I used Firefox before and I used a script to test, the script was not correct. However I got the trial Coil a few days ago, I tested it and it have worked fine on Firefox. 

Coil was sending payments when I just visited your itch.io link. However, Akita did not detect that web monetization was running.

You should make an issue on Akita and give them a sample link to check. 

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https://github.com/esse-dev/akita/issues/82
done AND done.

Submitted

Thank you very much.

Hi, I am ChichoRD, indie solo developer;

Please I need someone help! Recently I have published my first game Cardx on itch.io (https://chichord.itch.io/cardx), which is web monetized thanks to Coil and UpHold as my virtual wallet.

The problem is that it's supposed to launch a bunch of dollars (a particle system) every time a monetization event occurs, nevertheless it doesn't and no money is reaching my wallet.

I have tested with my friends from lots of navigators, I have contacted Coil, Itch.io and they neither know what my problem is.

The only message error I get is once I have installed a plugging for Chrome that can check whether a web is monetized or not, in my game it's says: "Monetization Meta tag is not correctly configured".

If someone knows what my problem could be or how to fix it please contact me (chichord2005@hotmail.com), I am using the Coil asset from GitHub for Unity and have the prefab for monetization in the scene with the correct Payment Pointer.

PD: If anyone wants you can download the source code either to investigate my problem or if you have curiosity about my game, thanks!

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I have exactly the same problem