Publishing a KAPLAY game

When we finish our game, the most important moment is to… Publish it!

Preparing the game

We should prepare our game to pubish in the different platforms.

Assets and source code

The first thing you should know it’s both your public and dist folders (or whatever they are called) should be the same folder. We recommend having a file tree like:

game/
┣ public/
┃ ┣ sprites/
┃ ┣ sounds/
┃ ┣ index.html - Your bundled index.html file
┃ ┣ game.js - Your bundled game file

This way, when you zip public, you will have all your assets and code files in the same folder. This is usually the folder you upload to game platforms like Itch.io and Newgrounds.com.

Asset paths

When you host your games in web portals, you should use relative paths

Actually you may have something like this:

loadSprite("bean", "/sprites/bean.png");

There’s two ways to handle this:

• Update all your imports to start with ./
• Use loadRoot()

loadRoot() inserts what it’s passed at start of every url:

loadRoot("."); // will add "." at start of every url

loadSprite("bean", "/sprites/bean.png"); // -> ./sprites/bean.png

loadRoot("./"); // will add "./" at start of every url

loadSprite("bean", "sprites/bean.png"); // -> ./sprites/bean.png

Itch.io

First, go to your account, then Upload a new project

Then, in Kind of project, you should select HTML, so itch.io will let you upload a web game

After that, the only thing left to do is to upload your zip with your game files, or if you have a single index.html file (very tasteful) upload it!

Itch.io Documentation about HTML5 games

Newgrounds.com

First, go to the up arrow and select Game

Now, as Itch.io, only upload a zip with your fabulous index.html game file.

You can tag your game in the different platforms with the tag kaplayjs and

kaplay. Probably we will see it and even promote in our social medias :D