Game doesn't work on web browser

[Shiro1994]

Hello.

I followed every step on the manual so that I could play my game in the browser (I use google chrome).

However, it doesn't work. There is always a message "Failed to load: data/Actors.json".

I found only one topic here in this forum where Yami suggested that installing http://www.wampserver.com/en/ would help but it didn't help at all.

Now I even have the problem that when I want to open google chrome I get the message "Google Chrome is unresponsive. Relaunch now?" And it doesn't open at all. (Edit: I was able to fix that after all...)

I just want to be able to play my games in a browser to share it and I just wanted to test it but it doesn't work at all. I'm really at a loss now...

Please help >.<

I would appreciate it a lot.

 

[Faytless]

Can you upload your project somewhere for me to test for you? 

I can upload it on my file server to see if it works to begin with.

I think you can upload via dropbox and get it to work there

but if you zip your project up for me I can give you a little more information

 

[Shiro1994]

Here is the Link: Test Game    (It doesn't really have content I just wanted to test how the web browser work)

Maybe I'm doing something wrong, but I don't know what...

Thank you for your support!

 

[KisaiTenshi]

Just a reminder that you can use Firefox as well on the Windows deployment (not the Mobile deployment for whatever reason.) Just click and drag the index.html file to it.

Chrome requires --allow-access-from-files as a command-line parameter.

 

[Shiro1994]

And how do I make it available for everybody in a browser like it was shown in the promotional page of RPG Maker MV where you could play the game in the browser?

There was an example game by enterbrain, I played it.

And where do I have to input this command in Chrome to make it work? (I'll try out firefox...)

Edit: I tried Firefox and now I get this:

NS_ERROR_DOM_BAD_URI

Access to restricted URI denied

I don't know what I did wrong :/

 

[Faytless]

Standby,  I'm running my tests... Sorry its taking me so long, i just got home from work

 

[KisaiTenshi]

And how do I make it available for everybody in a browser like it was shown in the promotional page of RPG Maker MV where you could play the game in the browser?

There was an example game by enterbrain, I played it.

And where do I have to input this command in Chrome to make it work? (I'll try out firefox...)

Edit: I tried Firefox and now I get this:

NS_ERROR_DOM_BAD_URI

Access to restricted URI denied

I don't know what I did wrong :/

As I said, local use on firefox only seems to work when you do Windows Deployment. When you do Mobile deployment it gives this error. Chrome requires creating a shortcut:

On Windows Operating System

Get the url of your Chrome Installation path to your chrome installation e.g C:\Users\-your-user-name\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\Application>

Launch the Google Chrome browser from the command line window with the additional argument ‘–allow-file-access-from-files’. E.g ‘path to your chrome installation\chrome.exe --allow-file-access-from-files’

Temporary method you can use each time you are testing

- Copy the existing chrome launcher

- Do as above and save it with a new name e.g chrome - testing

- Alternatively, you can simply create a new launcher with the above and use it to start chrome.

 

[Faytless]

http://tomsdevblog.net/www/index.html

I uploaded your project to my website.  I didn't make any special changes to it --  You have to allow the assets to fully load before you get a decent run.  So the good news is that there is nothing wrong with your project. 

Let me see if I can get drop box hosting to work

 

[Shiro1994]

How do I allow the assets to fully load? ~ This is my first time doing something like this, sorry for my noobiness

 

[Faytless]

you just let it sit.  You're constant downloading your project so its dependent on your internet connection.  Does this work for you?

You can follow the above posters instructions to see if you can get it to work offline.. but youre going to have to at some point find a host that

can put it up for you.

I leave your project on my website for as long as you want it too.  I tried uploading your project to drop box without much luck.  They seem to want 10$ a month to enable a public folder, unless I'm doing something wrong.

It's cheaper to just rent a website host lol

 

[terwilliker]

Sometimes you need to refresh the browser to load all of the JavaScript from MV. Also, install a local web server since JavaScript security may break otherwise. I use abyss server - http://www.aprelium.com/abyssws/.

 

[the-exp]

You're trying to play it from your local machine using a web browser, there's all kinds of security restrictions in play preventing files from loading.

What you want to be doing is playing it from a server. Easiest/best way to do this? Sign up for and download dropbox. 

Drag your entire 'www' folder into your public dropbox folder, and right click the index.html file and select 'get public link'. Once all your files are sync'd to dropbox's servers, that link will play exactly as if it's being hosted online.

The best part about this is if you deploy to your public dropbox folder, it will update all the files there automatically, meaning your link always has an up to date version of the game on it.

For example, here is a game I've got sitting in my public dropbox folder right now.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/7226513/www/index.html

 

[Shiro1994]

Woa! Thanks a lot!

I think now I'm able to play it on a web browser by myself. I'll definitly try the dropbox solution out since it seems the easiest way.

@faytless you can take the game down from your page, thanks for showing me that it works. xD

Thanks for the help to all of you.

 

[Faytless]

You're trying to play it from your local machine using a web browser, there's all kinds of security restrictions in play preventing files from loading.

What you want to be doing is playing it from a server. Easiest/best way to do this? Sign up for and download dropbox. 

Drag your entire 'www' folder into your public dropbox folder, and right click the index.html file and select 'get public link'. Once all your files are sync'd to dropbox's servers, that link will play exactly as if it's being hosted online.

The best part about this is if you deploy to your public dropbox folder, it will update all the files there automatically, meaning your link always has an up to date version of the game on it.

For example, here is a game I've got sitting in my public dropbox folder right now.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/7226513/www/index.html

Did you have to pay any fees?  Drop box won't let me enable my public folder unless I pay them monthly ;/

 

[Point08]

Did you have to pay any fees?  Drop box won't let me enable my public folder unless I pay them monthly ;/

I believe in 2013(?) that Dropbox changed to the current method of sharing files, and when they did that they got rid of the Public Folder option for all new users, except for Pro and Business. In other words, if you joined after they changed the sharing method, then to my knowledge, you can't get a Public Folder without paying.

 

[Andar]

The games can be played locally with several browsers, so far only chrome and IE have some settings to prevent that (no problems with firefox for example)

 

[triptych]

I'm really surprised RPGMaker doesn't have an option to run a local node.js server. Here are the instructions for how to get a local webserver working on your pc or mac.

http://www.jhh.me/blog/2012/12/24/setting-up-http-server-on-windows-with-node-js/

 

[triptych]

Here is another post about running a local server: http://www.2ality.com/2015/10/http-server-nodejs.html#more

 

[Val]

Hi I'm able to put my files on google drive to try to test my game online, but when I load the index.html the page stay black

how can I know that something is loading? Do I need to change something because I'm using plugins in my game? 

I don't have any message of error or nothing. I just let the page open for several minutes and nothing happening.

can you help me please !  

 

[Andar]

Val, please refrain from necro-posting in a thread. Necro-posting is posting in a thread that has not had posting activity in over 30 days. You can review our forum rules here. Thank you.


If you have a problem, make a new topic because in most cases the details are different

Hi I'm able to put my files on google drive to try to test my game online, but when I load the index.html the page stay black

Which files exactly did you put on Google Drive?
What you describe can either be a problem with missing files, or due to the load/sync problem you'll get doing that: MV runs in a webbrowser, and having a webbrowser load its file from an internet cloud drive can cause a lot of access or redirect problems depending on how googledrive works


Please post the details in a new topic, because I'm closing this as it is not about your error.