Post by CoderAngel in How is everyone doing?

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I learned that no matter how much time a jam technically gives you, life is never going to let me spend more that 2 days actually making a jam game... ;D

That said, I got a lot in and managed to create my own art, music, SFX, and visual effects all in that shortened timeframe.

Here's mine: https://itch.io/jam/vimjam/rate/769333

Rain4 years ago (1 edit)

Yeah same thing for me. One thing I would suggest is making the game downloadable and playable in the browser. This way more people play and you can share it with friends easier.

CoderAngel4 years ago

You are absolutely right, I keep trying to get that to work. I don't know why, but Itch.io just don't seem to like any of my Godot html stuff...or maybe they just don't like me! (*laugh*)

SeaLiteral4 years ago

I think it's better to export the project into several files and then create a zip file from those outside Godot. Godot's generated zip files are a bit weird. I also found that zip was really inconvenient when exporting my game for Linux, but now I've figured out how to work around that so that I won't need to make the installation instructions too complex.

CoderAngel4 years ago

Thank you for helping! I've tried both ways (I'm glad to know it isn't just me having problems with the auto-generated zip files). Both ways haven't worked for me yet, but I'm very happy to at least know which way is best. I wonder if my browser is part of the problem, next time I'll try uploading an HTML game using a different browser.

Thank you, again!

SeaLiteral4 years ago

I think I had to export several times to get something that would work when uploaded (and maybe I could check the names of the files it generates, but running the HTML5 version from a file on a computer doesn't seem to work, even if that same web version will work fine when uploaded on itch.io. Fortunately I uploaded the HTML5 version like an hour before the deadline, so I could just regenerate and retry for every time it didn't work. I'm feeling maybe the Windows and Linux builds of my game that I uploaded don't work though. Maybe I should have tested those before uploading.

You're welcome!

CoderAngel4 years ago

Yeah, I just downloaded your windows file to test it. It appears to have all your project files, but no ".exe" and it has a "project.binary" instead of a "project.godot" file. Hmm...maybe this is the contents of the usual PCK export file without an EXE? *shrug*

Thankfully, you got a web-browser version up so everyone can play! And thanks for the wonderful advice! =)