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We don’t provide anything to do this. You need some kind of browser runtime to launch those games. We don’t create stand-alone executables for HTML games, but run them directly inside of the itch.io’s app own browser runtime.

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NatSpectrum1 year ago

So to clarify, there is no way to tell the itch app to load a specific game through a command-line argument? Is that something that could be considered later down the line?

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leafoAdmin1 year ago (4 edits)

No public API but you can explore what butlerd supports here:

Note that this is an internal API. Although we likely aren’t changing it in the near future, we reserve the right to make changes without notice.

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TheGershon25 days ago (1 edit) (+1)

Is there no way to directly launch games within the itch.io app's browser runtime? I'd simply like to launch an HTML5 game through a separate launcher. If not, is there at least a way to have the itch.io app launch and then start the game automatically?

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