Any possible way to publish the game to sites such as Desura?

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• greyelf

  June 2014

  Have you contacted them via their "Contact Us" option on the Development page to find out what sort of options they support?
  
  After looking at their site I would guess that you may need to create an installer for your game/story, to help people install it on their machines after they download it from Desura.
  A large list of potential software to use to do this can be found here.
• MikeHart

  June 2014

  What exactly did not work they said?
• 0Bennyman

  June 2014

  They said 'So unfortunately I didn't look closely and didn't realize your game is running javascript through a web page. Unfortunately this does not work with our client--is it possible that you can package your game into an exe?' I then tried putting an exe that ran the file inside a rar with it in there but that didn't work and my reply from that was 'Unfortunately our team can't seem to get your exe to run. It's crashing on start-up.'
• MikeHart

  June 2014

  Maybe this can help:
  
  http://www.tidesdk.org/
  
  http://www.appcelerator.com/
• 0Bennyman

  June 2014

  I think they might work but I have absolutely no idea how to work them lol, thanks though.
• greyelf

  June 2014

  0Bennyman wrote:

  I then tried putting an exe that ran the file inside a rar

  
  When you convert a rar file into an exe file all you are doing is creating a self-extracting archive, which is different to an installer.
  
  An installer generally asks a user where they would like to place the file(s) being installed and also offers to create some means for the user to access the files being installed, generally via a icon on the desktop.
  
  I suggest you look at the link I gave in my previous message and then use Google to find an example / tutorial on how it is done.