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I saw a pop-up note in your game saying the Robot Lab was not included in your game because of itch.io's 200MB limit. Can you tell me where you found this information--the 200MB limit? I know about the 1GB file size limit but did not know about another limit of 200MB. I ask because I got the same problem--an error saying my game's data file is too large--at one point but the total file size of my game is about 200MB. (In fact, our games have a similar idea--the player goes to multiple assets to collect things for a celebration.) I managed to reduce my data size slightly while still keeping the Robot Lab and everything.

You can find this information here:

https://itch.io/docs/creators/html5#zip-file-requirements

  • The size of all the extracted content should not be greater than 500MB.
  • The size any single extracted file should not be greater than 200MB.

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    So right now, having a file larger than 200 MB already breaks the project.

    I think it would be good if this were mentioned in future Game Jams. But well, experience for next time.
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Thank you for responding to my question. I agree--the jam rules should include the link you list here. I bet not many people know about this. It'd be good to know this 200MB single file limit information ahead of time. I knew about the 1GB limit but not the 200MB. My first upload of my game had no problem, but the update of my final finished game only a few hours before the jam closed had the error about the data file size. That was really panicky.