I uploaded my game from the windows squiffy app to publish it, I'm doing a test run with it, because while I've written stories, I've never uploaded them, and I want to see how it works, but the issue I'm running into is that when it says "Play game online" I click it and it sends me to a blank page with the word "restart" on the top, that isn't a clickable link. It's just solid black text.
Yeah. Here you go.
https://media.textadventures.co.uk/games/fkUesn6thUuKOh-eAlOJhg/index.html
Have you ever opened it in a browser before? How do you normally run your stories?
I've never ran them before now. I've done a lot of writing, but this is my first time actually trying to publish a story. I did all the work in the offline application and uploaded the html file. I then went into my published games, clicked the edit option, and then clicked the "play" button, and that's when it turned up blank.
Also, apologies in advance for slow replies. I'm currently at work, so I'm really only able to respond to things during my breaks.
It looks like your game is missing some files. In particular, the files story.js and jquery.min.js are not there. Check that they're in the zip you uploaded. If they are, make sure that they are named correctly. Filenames with incorrect capitalisation will work when playing locally on Windows, but not online.
Ah, see that's where the issue lies. I was never able to save my Squiffy in a zip file. It wouldn't give me the option to, and if there is a specific way of doing it, then I don't know what it is. The only thing I was able to upload as indicated was acceptable by application itself was uploading an HTML link, and that's all it would give me unfortunately.
Ah, see that's where the issue lies. I was never able to save my Squiffy in a zip file. It wouldn't give me the option to, and if there is a specific way of doing it, then I don't know what it is. The only thing I was able to upload as indicated was acceptable by application itself was uploading an HTML link, and that's all it would give me unfortunately.
When you create an HTML version, it should put a bunch of files in the same place. You just need to create a zip file that contains them all.
index.html is a standard file, which just loads in all the others. Your actual game is in story.js.
The only one I was able to find was the html file, and that's it, but I'll delete it and see if I can't make a new one that produces different results. Worse case scenario, I ruin the project, and honestly, it's fine, it's really just a test run to see how this application functions as I've only ever started writing things and never finishing them.
Don't give up. I noticed that now that I'm using the downloadable version. You have to delete all of the things that was made previously and was downloaded. The js story and everything else. Then when you build, everything should come up.
