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"Kind of Project" HTML or Download, as it's both?

A topic by PaulKitching created 8 days ago Views: 98 Replies: 3
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I have something that runs HTML/Javascript.  It can run in a browser, but I also have an exe file (created with Tauri) for download.

If I set it as a HTML project, does that allow it to be ran on the game page and also let people download a zipped HTML directory as well as the exe?

Is it better to just do it as a downloadable project and have the files there, but not have it playable from the game page?

I've never published anything here before, so I'm not sure exactly how each works.

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You can have 0 or 1 "run in browser" and as many downloads as you like. For example, all my games have 2 downloads: 1 for Windows + 1 for Linux.

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Yes, setting the page to an HTML type project allows the thing to run as a page embed. That’s as if the upload has a functional index.html. Downloads can be made available from the same page.

I’m pretty sure the reverse doesn’t work out; as in, a project won’t run as an HTML game, tutorial, sample, or whatever you want running in the embed area when it’s overall classified as a download.

In my opinion, it’s better to offer both the web project plus downloads. That allows a wider range of people to look at the thing.

Thanks for the replies.  That's what I was hoping it would do.