Publishing

[troglodyte111]

I finished my game, many thanks to all who helped me! Community support is really impressive and appreciated!

The quest tutorial says I should announce on a forum that now appears discontinued, and refers to these github discussions. I am a bit confused: I find no forum here for announcements. Is there some particular place I should go to?

Is it good practice to publish a walkthrough? If so how (I am using the web version)?

The game is here:
https://textadventures.co.uk/games/view/wexkivj4c0imdtbchlqxbw/gilleholmen

[alexwarren]

The documentation is pretty out of date there - but coincidentally I'm in the middle of overhauling it, so this will be updated very soon.

I've categorised your game now so it appears under the "Latest Games" list on the textadventures.co.uk homepage. You could also announce it on our Discord in the #games channel.

The web version doesn't support walkthroughs, and they get removed by default when you publish a game - it's more of a debugging tool really. It does make me think we could offer better options here, something I'll have a think about and am open to suggestions on - perhaps we could have some place in a game listing where an author can submit "support" materials for players who get stuck, for example.

[troglodyte111]

Thanks! As always impressively fast. Let me take this opportunity to thank you for your effort on this platform.

Some games have hint systems to help players. I don't know how hard that would be to implement, or if there are off-the-shelf systems for that.