Bad surprise this morning, Pico-8 games have no sound in chrome (66.0.3359.139). The fix here on itch.io is to uncheck the "Automatically start on page load" box to get a play button.

Can this be done site-wide? I'm not sure every dev will notice and come back to do it, especially on older games.

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That seems to affect most web games after all. Is it a chrome bug or a new browser trend??

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https://blog.google/products/chrome/improving-autoplay-chrome/

That's an unfortunate side effect. Does Chrome notify the user at all that there are muted sounds?

You can force every game to be click to play from your account settings. We may phase out auto-loading games entirely in the future, but I see them as useful for a lot of different kinds of things.

Chrome doesn't notify for now. that might change in future versions, but it seems the whole policy is here to stay. also chrome is the most used browser and its updates spread quite fast. in a few month chrome66+ could represent 60% of the market (https://www.w3counter.com/globalstats.php?year=2018&month=4)

Regarding PICO-8 games specifically, if audio is denied at start it won't ever resume. that might get fixed on the pico-8 side eventually. but I'm quite sure that most games here won't ever get an update. So, I think that disabling autoplay for all existing pico-8 games on the site would fix the problem. then devs that can handle it by themselves could re-enable it if they want.