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A topic by GDS created Sep 21, 2017 Views: 3,426 Replies: 24

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I'm new on this site, I came from newground, there I have my games hitting 20k+ views every month, but unfortunately they have a file size limit of 250mb, so I got to move out.

I really liked the tools and control I got here, I uploaded a small test game and worked wonders.

But when I uploaded the final game I got this message : "There was a problem loading your game: Too many files in zip (1189 > 500)" the game is small about 260mb, but since its a novel like every frame is a single .PNG, so it will have a high file count.

The support wont answer my requests for a extent,

Do you guys think they will help me? Or I should start looking somewhere else?

No Time To PlayModerator7 years ago

Someone should get back to you soon. Things can get busy. In the mean time, there are some limits placed on uploaded games here, they're just more generous than elsewhere. Could you maybe pack your assets into an archive of their own inside your overall game archive, and load from there?

it's all packed inside the zip file, but then the sites counts the files after unpacking all the assets

No Time To PlayModerator7 years ago

Hence my suggestion to maybe put another archive inside the archive, so that itch.io doesn't see a zillion image files after unpacking your game, but just one file. Of course, this being a web game, integrating a ZIP library could be tricky...

You mean a zip inside a zip? That sounds crazy, but maybe it can work.

But I don't know if I can code that into a HTML5 game, but worth a try...

No Time To PlayModerator7 years ago

Yeah, last time I checked there was just one ZIP handling library for Javascript, and it wasn't easy to use. But years have passed.

I tried, I can did that on .exe and android, but not to HTML5, since its inside the browser the browser thinks it's a security breach and will block the extraction.

Damn that sounded like a good idea

No Time To PlayModerator7 years ago

Sorry for misleading you. I don't suppose your PNG files are small enough to combine into sprite sheets either?

they are very small, the problem to merge then is the time and work required, I will need to recode the whole game.

No Time To PlayModerator7 years ago

Ouch. Fair enough.

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for desktop 260mb is small, most desktop games have more then 2gb, even indie ones

For a HTML5 is kind of big, but for now It's the only way for may Mac patrons to play the game

leafoAdmin7 years ago (1 edit)

I removed your limit try again. If 250mb needs to be downloaded up front to play the game then I strongly recommend making it into a downloadable game. It's a poor user experience loading a large game into the browser. Likewise, downloading 1000 files to play a game isn't great. If the content is loaded as the player progresses then it's less of an issue.

Thanks mate, I offer a download version too, but it's for android and PC only, Most of HTML5 player come from MAC.

In the future I plan to support Mac nativity, but until then most of my Patrons like the online version, Pretty sure I'm one of the only people on this line of games that support mac/html5

I'm still getting this error: "There was a problem loading your game: Too many files in zip (1189 > 500)"

Should I delete the project and start a new one?

leafoAdmin7 years ago

No need to delete the project. Are you uploading from the same account as the one you're posting with here?

Yeap, same account, and still getting the same error msg when I try to preview the game.

I will delete this project and start a new one, and will come back to you

Thanks mate, it's working!!

lawest5 years ago

Hi leafo,

I'm in the same situation as GDS—my game is quite small (83.6MB unzipped), but because the text files are individual .pngs (due to foreign language diacritics), I cannot reduce the file number below 500. I am currently getting the error message "Too many files in zip (805 > 500)".

Is there any way I can have my limit removed, since my game is so small? I have done my best to remove extra files, but I still have 273 essential image files.

(I apologize if this is the wrong place to post)

leafoAdmin5 years ago(+4)

I removed the limit on your account.

For future readers, I'm also considering bumping the default limit up to 1000 files

lawest5 years ago

Thanks a ton—it's working great now!

jackii5 years ago

Hey leafo,

I have the same problem. My game is <20mb but has ~700 files.
Please increase or remove my file limit. :)
Thank you

Noah5 years ago

Hi Leafo,

I have a game that is only 60MB and has a little over 500 files. Is there any way I can have my limit removed?

Thank you

mysta5 years ago

Hey leafo,

I have the same problem. My game is way smaller than 1Gb but has ~1000 files due to lots of images.
Please can you increase or remove my file limit. :)
Thank you!

LazyKitty5 years ago

Dear leafo, facing the same issue, 784 > 500. I worked on the game to specifically provide a good user experience as a browser game by downloading content incrementally, and there's only 84mb. Can you help me please?

Ruofu Sun5 years ago

Hey I got the same issue with my zip upload, my game is only around 50M. Could you help change the limit to 1000 files? Thank you!!

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