Question about the index.html

[Zorenic]

Is the index.html required to playtest a project?
 

If yes, then why does my maker keep deleting it?

 

[EternalShadow]

It's for web browser usage. It essentially encompasses all the js files into one place to run the game.

 

[Zorenic]

It's for web browser usage. It essentially encompasses all the js files into one place to run the game.

So it isn't needed for playtesting the game from the program?

I've been looking around for fixes to this bug I have with the program, and one post stated that the game.exe is nothing but a player that runs the html file.

 

[EternalShadow]

Is it giving you an error when you playtest from the program?

 

[Zorenic]

Is it giving you an error when you playtest from the program?

The infamous white screen.

 

[orlando]

Yup index.html is always required. It is probably automatically deleted because it might be changed/regenerated depending on what you do.


And yes, local playtest simply launches an integrated browser that opens up index.html, that is indeed how it operates


If the file is disappearing completely,that is definitely a problem. Try checking file permissions in your folder, see if you have free disk space etc. If that still doesn't solve it, maybe try making index.html read-only to force it to stay or something like that

 

[Zorenic]

Yup index.html is always required. It is probably automatically deleted because it might be changed/regenerated depending on what you do.

And yes, local playtest simply launches an integrated browser that opens up index.html, that is indeed how it operates

If the file is disappearing completely,that is definitely a problem. Try checking file permissions in your folder, see if you have free disk space etc. If that still doesn't solve it, maybe try making index.html read-only to force it to stay or something like that

Unfortunately, that didn't work.

Sometimes when I use fresh projects, the index.html will stay there but playtesting still won't work.

 

[Andar]

Are you sure it's the editor that deletes the file?


Because usually the editor will rewrite it if it needs to be changed, but it will not delete it.


At the moment I can think of two possibilities of what might really happen:


1) an antivirus program or a similiar background program decides that the file is wrong (or an interruption of a privacy setting for the system) and deletes it.


2) the folder access rights are bungled up and the editor can delete but not recreate the file.


Please check those two options