EasyRPG Player supports running games directly inside your web browser.
If you want to test it you can play with a Demo of our TestGame. Try also a working game: Ib
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Web request are asynchronous. This means that all assets like pictures and music must be fetched asynchronously. When the Player wants to display a new graphic it will appear on the desktop versions (Windows, Linux, Android, …) immediately but on the web it will be invisible while the file is downloaded. Once the downloaded finishes it is replaced with the real image.
In contrast to images and music some files are important to continue execution. When a map file is pending the Player will halt until the file is downloaded. The first halt is while the Logo is displayed on startup, it downloads the database and the maptree here. Download of map files is blocking, too. But this is usually not noticeable because the download is executed while the fade out animation plays (it will stay black when the map downloading takes longer then this).
Hosting your own games is quite simple. Just follow these steps.
Download this archive and extract it on your server.
You will get the following files and folder:
If you want to try it locally you need a HTTP server. Just opening the index.html in your browser will not work. If you don't have a local webserver the simplest way is installing Python and running python -m http.server. Then open http://localhost:8000/ in your browser and navigate to your directory.
Because RPG Maker games refer to files without extension and querying the server for every supported extension would be slow, you need to run a small tool to generate a file called index.json (containing an game file list index with extensions) for every game before uploading. The tool is called gencache.
You can get the tool here:
Place the gencache executable in a game working folder (the folder containing RPG_RT.* files) to generate the index.json. Move the gencache executable to working folders for each game you want to upload and run gencache again to generate the index.json for them. Once finished you can remove (don't upload it, it's not needed) the gencache from any game folder.
Your games are expected in subdirectories of the games directory. The default game executed is the one in games/default. You can create further games by just by putting them in subdirectories of the games directory.
Now access the index.html file and your default game should start. To play a different game pass ?game=folder_name as part of the URL (query string) to your index file.