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Enjoyed playing your game. Happy coincidence: I was watching the TV series "Treasure Island" the last two days here at my mothers place - not exactly the same, but some nice similarities :-)

I have plenty of free time here, so I was doing an experiment. I was wondering if and how it would be possible to embed a game like yours (interactive Google Slide based presentation) into an itch.io game page. And I was successful :-) I was taking your presentation for my tests, as it uses some more advanced features (linking slides with interactive elements).

Here are the steps:

  • In Slides: File > Share > Publish to web
  • Switch to tab Embed, medium size, any number of seconds for "switch to next slide"
  • Open any text editor, paste the embed code inside, and add html and body tags around it (to create a very basic html page)
  • Search for "delayms=" and change the number to a very big one (prevents auto switching slides)
  • Save as index.html and then compress this file to index.zip
  • Upload the index.zip into your itch.io game page and choose "Will be played in browser", choose embed in page, set size manually to 960x580
  • Voila! Your game is fully integrated into an itch page and can be played inside the page :-D
  • I can share the result with you, if you are interested - created a PW protected and restricted page for it

Wow this is SUCH a good idea! Thank you so much for documenting the steps so clearly, I'm going to give it a try. I love the slides format for a prototype like this, it was so fast to throw together and edit, so I think I'll use it again for testing small ideas. It will be a huge improvement to be able to integrate it into the page like this. You're a legend 🤩

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Happy to hear you like the idea. If all goes well, the result can look somehow like this. You can even trigger a fullscreen mode from the 3-dot-menu. Another nice benefit: You will get proper statistics about how many times your games was played.