I don’t know what I’m doing wrong. I’ve uploaded my game to IF archive, and am trying to set IFDB up so it’s playable. I can set the download link, but how do I make it so it will play the index.html file. Here’s what I have : [image] But it doesn’t have the ‘play online’ button on the game’s pag…

You should just be able to link to this page https://ifarchive.org/if-archive/games/competition2021/Games/Dr%20Horrors%20House%20of%20Terror/index.html and choose any of the options. Edit: I missed the part about the play online button. Not sure about that, but the above will work for now, you ca…

I wish you were doing it wrong! This is one of the uglier parts of IFDB. IFDB’s “Play On-line” button works by linking to iplayif.com , which, in turn, only works when you have an URL pointing directly to a playable file (a .gblorb file). iplayif.com doesn’t work with ZIP files containing a .gblorb,…

I could make Parchment just redirect to a HTML page if that’s what it’s told to play. Do you think that would be helpful? (It probably wouldn’t by itself solve the Play Online issues of IFDB though.)

Not really… IFDB still has to be updated to show the Play On-line button for games whose HTML have checked the “This is a playable game file” box. But once someone goes to the trouble of updating IFDB to support that, we might as well just link directly to the HTML file ourselves. I think it would …

Right! I will just upload the updated gblorb file, then!! Good to know. Thanks to all for responses! Much appreciated. Ade

Following up on this, it looks like https://ifarchive.org/if-archive/games/glulx/Dr_Horrors_House_of_Terror.gblorb is a different file from https://ifarchive.org/if-archive/games/competition2021/Games/Dr%20Horrors%20House%20of%20Terror/Dr%20Horror's%20House%20of%20Terror.gblorb but the file still sa…

My bad! I’ll update release number when I get a chance. Thank you for the follow up!

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 a…

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