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How to Post Your Game to Itch.io! Sticky

A topic by ThatTomHall created Dec 02, 2020 Views: 477 Replies: 6
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Here's how to make your Pico-8 game playable on itch.io!

  • Export from pico: EXPORT FILENAME.HTML 
  • It makes FILENAME.HTML and FILENAME.JS
  • Rename  FILENAME.HTML to INDEX.HTML (cuz that is what itch.io wants) then ZIP those two files.
  • Now, in itch.io upload, choose HTML instead of Executable and upload the zip
  • Choose 750x680 display size (Thanks again, KittenM4aster!)
  • After you upload, you can change the theme of the page to match your game, like this: https://thattomhall.itch.io/myrrhs-edge

Those are the tricky bits -- fill in the rest and you are good to go!

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looks like it鈥檚 750x680 now to get the normal size. That鈥檚 what I have for all of my games now at least鈥 think I remember the HTML exports slightly changing in the last PICO-8 update or something.

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Ooh okay!

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Will fix.  ALSO FOLKS THERE'S A COLUMN MISSING in BOTH CARTS! Stay tuned!

"I would also recommend making your submission playable on itch.io by exporting to HTML, changing gamename.html to index.html, then zipping the two files for upload. You have to check the box that says HTML - playable in browser. "

So we have to put together on the same zip index.html and game.js?

I just didn't get that

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Yeah that's how you post on itch.io -- export to html, rename game.html to index.html, zip those two files up, upload, and say "HTML" and "will be playable in a browser".

Ok