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Trying to upload an HTML game...

A topic by Larkatiel created Sep 22, 2020 Views: 629 Replies: 2
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So I'm trying to privately host an HTML game. I'm uploading it in the EasyRPG HTML player (don't know if that info is gonna help but I'll say it anyway.) Being an RPG Maker game, the zip file size is pretty large. When I try running the game, it gives me an error saying there's too many files in the zip. Is there any way to upload a large game? If not, is there another HTML game hosting site without a limit?

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We have some default limits explained here: https://itch.io/docs/creators/html5#zip-file-requirements

The rational is also explained on that page:

Why do we have limits? Although many game engines allow you to export anything as an HTML5 project, often you need to consider what the user experience of playing the game will be like. You can think of an HTML5 project like a website: many of the same performance optimization recommendations still apply. We have these default limits to encourage developers to consider how their games are distributed

But, we’ve had a more engines these days hitting the old 500 file limit, so I’ve bumped it up to 1,000 files.

Note I did a quick test on your page to see if it would load and it failed, but it looks like it’s because of how you packaged the page. There is an index.json file but it’s not where the engine is looking. Hope that helps you figure it out

Thanks! So uh, if my index.json is in the wrong place, where should it go? The EasyRPG website says there has to be two index.json files; one in the root, and one in the game's files.

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