The new Scirra Arcade allows you to share your game with the world on the Scirra website itself! Here's what you need to know.
Limitations
Currently the Arcade only supports the built-in plugins and behaviors,
except for the Facebook, Kongregate and appMobi plugins. Also, the Browser object has limited features on the Arcade: any actions which can navigate to a different page are blocked for security reasons. Currently all third-party plugins and behaviors are not allowed. We'll be looking to improve this in future by adding more support, but each plugin and behavior must be carefully reviewed first to ensure the Arcade remains a safe and secure place to play games.
The Arcade also doesn't support fullscreen games yet (the
Fullscreen in browser property must be
Off) but we hope to add support soon for that too.
Export in the Arcade format
Once your game is ready to go, click
Export project. Make sure
Export for is set to
Scirra Arcade.
Be sure to pick a new empty directory to export to. When you click
Export you'll get a single file called
game.zip. This is what you need to upload to the
Scirra Arcade. Click
Submit Game to submit your new game.
Once it's uploaded you'll also need to provide a
280x233 sized tile to represent the game, and some extra details like instructions and a description if you didn't fill one out in Construct 2.
The Arcade submissions are moderated so you might have to wait a day or two for a moderator to verify your game. Once that's done, your game is on show to the world!
That's all!
We hope to resolve the limitations and add more features as time goes by. We'll update this tutorial when we do.
Also, bandwidth can be expensive, so we might add adverts around your game. We won't touch the content of the game itself, though.
Want to embed an Arcade game on your website? See
How to embed your game!
That's all there is to it - have fun uploading your games! Can you get your game in the
Most Played list...?