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Twine on itch.io through mobile browser

A topic by White_W created May 17, 2021 Views: 231 Replies: 2
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I cannot find any twine game on itch.io that seems to work through the Safari browser on Iphone.

For example, the game "Seedship" works in Safari on Iphone at this location:

https://philome.la/johnayliff/seedship/play/index.html

But it is not playable at this location (because it is not possible to scroll the view down far enough to select all the choices):

https://johnayliff.itch.io/seedship

Is there a working example of a twine game on itch.io that does run through a mobile browser? It seems like it should work, at least for stories of pure text?

Is safari the default or only option for web browsing on an iPhone? Are there any viable alternatives to using safari? Can you install one of those alternatives and try playing the Twine adventure using those browsers? Problem solved? You're welcome. ;-)

Running Seedship through Firefox on Iphone has the same problem. But even if it didn't, that wouldn't achieve the goal of maximizing the number of people who can try a given Twine experience. Insisting that users use a non-standard browser to view the twine would be better than insisting that users use a pc instead of a mobile device, but would not be as effective as "it just works". It may seem like a minor point, but from my experience I would expect significantly more views from users on mobile devices than on pc.

Given that Seedship works just fine on another site, and is only composed of text, is there a setting or twine format that makes it work?

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