@Ayzkalyn
As it’s an .html file your browser will try to open it (not download it) by default, so you need to right click the link and select ‘save as…’ from the context menu.
Hope that helps 
@lordirish
Not really, not besides you uploading every game yourself via FTP, but that’s no better for the author than asking someone (with a public folder) to host it for them 
@CJW I thought as much but thought to see if you had a better idea.
Hi,
I’ve got a problem with this.
I generate the .html file which should contain my game, but it doesn’t work.
The file opens, but it shows only the basic windows and loading bar. After this the bar is moving but the game itself doesn’t load.
Any ideas what am I doing wrong?
@sokol07
Do you know how to activate the browser’s console? Hit F12 when you’re trying to run the compiled game and you’ll get a window pop up at the bottom of your browser.
If you go to the ‘console’ tab and make sure “errors” are shown, there should be more information there. If you could check that and report back, I’ll have more chance of being able to help.
Apart from that, I can only suggest you just try a recompile, and double check that all your scenes are listed correctly under *scene_list.
I tried recompiling, scenes are listed correctly, because the game runs correctly when I run it locally.
In console I’ve got three errors. One isn’t important, I think, because it is an information, that some signs from the font may be displayed with errors (and that’s ok, because I’m writing in Polish).
Other two are:
ReferenceError: \u010F\u0165\u017C is not defined
ReferenceError: isIE is not defined
Edit:
I also found a few warnings from CSS, but if you need them, you must give me time to tomorrow - I have to translate them from Polish.
Actual game runs without problems, compiled doesn’t.
I’ll check the scene list in the afternoon. If I don’t find anything, I’ll send you a link.
Apologies for the bump, but since this thread is mentioned in the wiki (for game publication) I thought I’d best post this here.
I’m pretty sure I found out what was causing your problem @sokol07, in the current version of Choicescript the ui.js file is encoded differently to the other files.
I tried compiling my own game and got the exact same error you had (for the exact same reason).
Changing the encoding of ui.js to ANSI (same as other .js files) seemed to fix it.
You do this via opening the file in Notepad++ and selecting the appropriate menu option before re-saving it and rerunning compile.html.
Better yet, just highlight, delete and retype the first couple of characters in the file, the asterisk and the slash: “/*”.
I’ll update this post as/if/when this is no longer an issue.
Update
There’s still no word on an official fix for either of the bugs affecting the compilation process, but after some tweaking I seem to have managed to circumvent both of them through automatic edits in the compile process itself. This isn’t ideal, but it’s better than nothing.
EDIT: The compile code that ships with the Choicescript-master zip seems to work now. Though I’ll leave this link/version up for anyone who likes the scene list GUI and IE support(?).
In English: Basically try replacing your version of compile.html with this one:
If you do that you *shouldn’t* need to implement any of the fixes mentioned on this page, it should work straight out of the box (please let me know if it doesn’t!).
It also features a sort of experimental GUI thing I wanted to try which lists the scenes that compile can find automatically and then gives you a chance to add any more before clicking compile.
I tried using that to compile my game, but when I put in my scenes and hit compile it gives me two error messages, although they are probably me using internet explorer
Export failed
could not open web/mygame/index.html
Your browser may not be supported. We recommend using Mozilla Firefox for compile.html
Any help is much appreciated since it is probably just my stupidity with things like this.
Yes, sorry as the second message implies compile.html will only work with Firefox at present, the other browsers don’t give quite so much control over local file loading (It’s not a bias reasoning, the method used simply doesn’t work in other browsers).
You actually reminded about a method I stumbled across to make compile.html work for new versions of Internet Explorer as well as Firefox. I just implemented it now, so it may be worth your time to re-download it and try again (if you’re not wanting to download Firefox).
I’m still only “officially” stating that it’ll only work in Firefox at this point in time though, as strictly speaking the method I’ve used for IE *shouldn’t* work (on paper), it just does.
Ok, thanks. I will try it as soon as I get my computer back.
If anyone wants an ftp account, I can set one up for them on my server, no problem. This way, you can upload your files (no need to compile) and run the game in your browser just like dropbox with a public folder. Just log in with an ftp client.
@CJW thank you for your instructions. They were very helpful! 
It was a basis for my dad for figuring out how to do it. Here are the instructions he wrote for me to help me understand. I hope this helps others as well.
2)Unzip the game.zip file to the desktop
3)Make changes and save
Make zip file of game
Download the compile.html that CJW linked to and put it on the desktop (it’s just easier to find there)
6)Replace Compile.html in the game folder with the Compile.html file from the desktop
7)Run Compile.html with Firefox
8)Right click link on bottom of the screen and select Save Link As and save it to the desktop
9)Go to dropbox and upload the file and copy the resulting link
10)Paste link in text file
11)Replace https://www.dropbox.com
With https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/
12)This is the new shareable link. You should put the link into a text file and save it, replace the link every time you make a new copy of the game.
I just downloaded choicescript-master.zip from github today, and compile.html produced a file that didn’t work. The modified compile.html in this thread worked. I also did the above ui.js fix, but I don’t know if that has any bearing on this problem anymore. Anyway, in short, there still seems to be a problem with the compile.html in the official choicescript distro.
I used Goggle Drive early in my current project, it allows transporting of Zips, but I don’t think it can compile it right there.
Ok so this works with scenes but is there a way to include pictures in the upload?
I have a question about compile.html. If I were to update the compile.html file hosted on dropbox, would the save files from the previous compile.html still be there? Because I know some people have already played a playtest of my game and have save files, and it would suck if their save was erased every time I needed to update the file.
It’s probably a stupid question, but I still want to know.
A slightly less fiddly way…I hope this still works…
You can get a single .html file if you paste your source into the community-made IDE. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/7840892/CJW/choicescript/tools/IDE/main.html#
You may have to experiment, but you create scenes and paste the text of each one in. Export will let you download an HTML.
I think then you might be able to put it on Google Docs perhaps?
I’ve done this but I get error 404. “We can’t find the page you’re looking for. Check out our Help Center and forums for help, or head back to home.”
help plz
The website url is: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/home?preview=Kingdom+Life.html
