I think this could stand to be a separate thread, but…
FWIW, there has been progress since my post back in November.
- There is now a “Play On-line” button for web games
- IF Archive now has an “unbox” service https://unbox.ifarchive.org/ that’s designed to be able to unzip and serve games from ZIP archives on ifarchive.org. Therefore, we now can include a “Play On-line” button for zipped games, as long as the ZIP appears on ifarchive.org, and as long as we correctly identify the file and the path to the file inside the ZIP.
Back in February, I went through and tried to make sure that top-rated games (sorted by starsort) on IFDB had Play On-line buttons, and when I added support for linking to the ADRIFT WebRunner, I attempted to set up Play On-line buttons for the top-ranked games in this search: https://ifdb.org/search?searchfor=system%3Aadrift
- To Hell in a Hamper: Originally ADRIFT, ported to Inform 7, now available as a Glulx
- Skybreak: ADRIFT 5, works great in the WebRunner
- Marika the Offering: v1.0 seemed to work in the WebRunner (using unbox service). It looks like you’ve listed v1.1 as an “ALAN 2” file, which would not be eligible for online play. If the ZIP found itself on ifarchive.org, I think we could update the link to make v1.1 web playable.
- Pirate’s Plunder: Again, I think that if the link became available on ifarchive.org, we could use the unbox service to play it in the web runner. (But would it work?)