Post by Konstantin Kitmanov in How to use Butler for HTML games?

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Sorry, I still don't get it. How do I push a patch for html5 game if there's no channel? butler won't do that.

So, you always have to specify a channel when pushing with butler, like so:

butler push folder user/game:channel

If your game was previously uploaded via the website, you'll just need to upload it once with butler with a channel name of your choice (that contains 'html5'), delete the old one, and mark the new one as "This file will be played in the browser", and you're all good to go!

The next time you want to upload an upgrade, use the same channel name you just created, and it will update the embed, and distribute patches to itch.io app users. Hope that clarifies things!

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Konstantin Kitmanov6 years ago(+1)

Yes, thanks you, that makes a lot of sense.

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Tangent (Rose)6 years ago (1 edit)

(that contains 'html5')

I was under the impression you could tag any channel for that, does it really require html5 to be within the channel's name?

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Amos5 years ago

You can pick any upload to be played in the browser, regardless of the channel's name.

Channel names only matter for the first push - since it determines what platforms the new upload is going to be tagged with. That can always be changed in the Edit game page, though!

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