I notice that the “Play Online” link for my game Quest for the Teacup of Minor Sentimental Value on IFDB doesn’t seem to work. I’m seeing this when I try it:
Secure Connection Failed
An error occurred during a connection to 2k788xeots.unbox.ifarchive.org. Cannot communicate securely with peer: no common encryption algorithm(s).
Error code: SSL_ERROR_NO_CYPHER_OVERLAP
The page you are trying to view cannot be shown because the authenticity of the received data could not be verified.
Please contact the web site owners to inform them of this problem.
Since this is presumably the exact same collection of files that people were playing online while judging, is there any way this could be fixed over at the IF Archive? I’ll readily admit the ZIP file I submitted for the comp was a little complicated: if I remember rightly it was actually a Windows build containing a browser-playable index.html, with a zipped Linux version on the side. Still, I’d like the archive to have the IFComp version as a record of what was originally submitted.
In the meantime I’ll probably upload the game to itch.io and link to that from IFDB so there’s at least a working option, but if anyone can help me get the IF Archive version playing nicely in browser that would be most appreciated.
(Also, please feel free to move this if it’s not the right forum. This seems like a publishing issue to me but I may have overlooked a more appropriate place to ask about it.)
The IFDB “Play Online” link to this game in the IF Archive doesn’t work either, on my iPhone anyway. The image flashes up but the screen goes blank. It’s still playable on Itch though.
Daddy’s Birthday is working for me (I’m not on iPhone), but the external links seemed unnecessarily convoluted (loading the story file from the Wayback Machine version of itch.io’s internal storage, when the Itch version is still online).
(The Wayback Machine has recently come back up from hacking-induced downtime, which may have something to do with it.)
I’ve changed it so the Play Online link points at the itch.io page (since there seems no reason not to), and the story file link doesn’t go via the Wayback Machine.
I think this is unrelated to the problem with Quest for the Teacup of etc etc.
I just want to say a huge thanks for looking into this! I saw that someone had mentioned it in a comment on my blog a while back but it took me until now to actually try and do anything about it, so it seems a whole bunch of people were already much more on top of it than I was.