How to upload your game on itch.io

Get your game out into the vast world of games!

We just have built the Space Shooter into a WebGL version. While sending around the Windows version is pretty easy, letting your friends play the WebGL build will work a bit differently.

Let’s upload the game to a third-party hoster like itch.io!

About itch.io
In case you haven’t heard anything about itch.io before:
itch.io is very popular among indie (game) developers and indie content creators of any kind. You can upload your game, software, game assets, music, etc. in the format you prefer. Other than that, itch.io also provides the platform for people hosting Game Jams.

Upload the Space Shooter to itch.io
itch.io requires you to upload a .zip file of your game (or software etc.).

• Create a .zip archive of the game files
• Head over to itch’es website.
• Log into your account or create a new one
• Go to the “Dashboard” site
• The “Projects” tab should be selected. Create a new project by clicking on “Create new project”

Fill in all the information itch.io is asking from you:

• Give your game a name
• Assign a fitting project URL
  The URL can be shared with others. With it, others can access and download the game if necessary.
• Create a short tagline for your game
  For example: “Shoot away the intruding enemy spaceships!”
• Choose “Games” as classification
• As we have a WebGL build we upload, choose “HTML” for “Kind of project”
• Choose the current “Release status” of the game.
  As we will continue to develop the title, I will choose “In Development” here.
• Choose your price you’d like to offer your game
  I keep it for free with the possibility to donate.
• Upload the .zip file of your game
• Choose the Embed option you’d like
• Describe your game. Either quick and short or detailed
• Choose a genre and fitting tags
• Select the desired visibility.
  I will keep it as a draft for now.
• If you’re happy click “Save & view page”
• Customize your page to your liking!

We successfully uploaded our game to itch.io! It now is ready to be shared with friends, so they can play and (hopefully!) enjoy them.