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How can my browser game has downloads?

A topic by Keeweed created Nov 19, 2018 Views: 1,820 Replies: 2
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Hello, I have a question about browser/HTML games and downloads. I have configured my game Path of Adventure as a browser game, meaning the .zip I uploaded is extracted and served to players and played in their browser. So, looking at my game's page, there's no download button whatsoever. Yet, the analytics show that some people have downloaded the game anyway. I wonder how that's possible? And is there a way to prevent it? I mean, I understand the browser has to download the game to show it, but there's a difference to that and explicitly showing a button to download the whole thing as a .zip.

Thanks!

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It's because the app pulls down web games and stores them locally. The analytics system isn't aware of that, and counts it as an ordinary download. Otherwise it shouldn't be possible, unless you upload a second archive with a different name.

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Thanks for your explanation! I made sure there's no second archive, so it's got to be the app then. So basically I can interpret  those downloads as views from the app. Neat :)

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