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How to Host Unity Games on the Web

Objective: Deploy your game to itch.io website

In this article, we are going to demonstrate how to deploy and host your game to itch.io

Itch io is a website that provides the services for you to host or distribute your game (or other content) either for free or a price of your asking.

Create a WebGL build

Firstly, in Unity, we need to create a WebGL build of the game. With the Unity Editor open, under the File menu, select Build Settings…

Choose the WebGL platform and click on Switch platform.

In this next step, we are going to tell Unity where to create the build files. It is best practice to create a Build folder in your project. Click on the Build button. Create a folder in the Builds folder called WebGL and click on Select folder.

Unity will now go ahead and create the build files. On completing the build, go back to a folder and zip the WebGL folder. Later we will upload this zip file to a project on itch.io

Create an account on itch.io

Go to itch.io and register.

Under Dashboard, click on the Create new project button.

Make the following changes:

Project name: Space Shooter

Kind of project: HTML

Release status: In development

Click on Upload files and navigate to the WebGL zip and upload it.

Under Embed options, change to Auto-detect size (Unity HTML only).

Visibility & access, change to Public, and click Save.

Click on View page and click Run game

Go ahead and explore what other settings you may want to change. You may consider uploading a cover page, adding descriptions, and start a dev log. Good Luck! If you do release a game, please let me know about it. I would love to play it.

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