Browser version not loading fully / not playing?

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Browser version not loading fully / not playing?

#1 Post by zomgenius »

I'm trying to upload a demo of my game to itch.io so that a friend can check out the story for me. However, I keep getting this screen - it says that it extracted the game, then just says, "Bye!" ... And nothing plays.

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Here's how I built the distro.
  1. In Ren'Py, select Actions - Web (Beta)
  2. Build Web Application (or Build and Open in Browser, this just skips the next steps.)
  3. Zip up loose files so that index.html is at the top of the zip.
  4. Upload to itch.io, check off "play in browser."
  5. Go to page for game, allow to download.
  6. See message about 'extracted in ____ seconds,' then see this screen.
  7. Game does not progress further.
Build distributions for Windows appear to work just fine; it's just the web one that has issues.

What am I doing wrong? I'm not getting any errors along the way - so I have no idea where my mistake is happening. No error logs or tracebacks are available.

Any help is appreciated!

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