I wanted to use itch. io for my thesis experiments and having the game in a browser would be ideal. However I need to run some in game analytics and I need the player to send me this information. Is there any way to do this with a browser game?
what game engine are you planing to use? I would imagine the skills needed for this would require specific coding skills and possibly data management, but I believe it’s possible.
You might want to look into the Score Space game jam Discord server, those developers specialize in online leaderboard integration
Could always just have a feedback button that when clicked takes the user to a google survey tab to get feedback, tis what my buddy did, he later expanded it to be all ingame so players would fill out survey ingame then send it and it'd be routed and filled out a google sheet survey.
Other option is to simply have it email you information but that can get clutter-y fast.
But yee, one other option that my friend was toying around with was sending google surveys when the gam is closed as a sorta pseudo analytics feedback, works pretty well since google doc can crunch similar results and answers so you dont have to search for every single response.
... save game. What you describe is a save game. Play some twine games. They usually have that feature. There is save to disk and load to disk. So it is possible.
But if you need the user to generate the file, download it, and make them send it to you with email, you might do that directly in the webgame. I mean, there are also such things as global high scores and other things were information flows from the user over the game to a server and even back into other people's games.