At 8/24/24 05:16 AM, Th3B3stGam3mak3r wrote:While I could send the game file directly it would have 2 major issues
1. Any kind of media that needs to be accessed and/or played has to be downloaded first. Just because it happens in the browser (I assume you want your game to be reachable through a web browser), doesn't mean it doesn't get downloaded to your PC. Normally you just don't see the files, but they are stored in your web browser's cache, and you can save them to your disk as regular old files if you'd want to. The only exceptions to this that I could think of would be game streaming services (like NVIDIA Now) where you don't need to download the game to play it. But everything else: images, audio, video - all need to be first downloaded (at least partially) to be viewed. That's why you could get malware by regularly simply surfing the web from all those malicious advertisements back in the day. Nowadays web browsers run in a sandbox that theoretically shouldn't let the malware do its thing while also having the operating system disallow any serious changes to your system by requiring to run the malware with administrator privileges first.
Regarding the files being "safe", as long as they don't need administrator rights to run, they should be pretty safe. Sure you can be a prick and write a code that deletes most of the user's personal files without affecting the underlying operating system (as that doesn't require admin privileges). But I assume most people that share their games aren't such pricks.
2. You need to accept that these things do happen, but also you need to understand that it's not as bad as you might think it is. Legally speaking, you can sue them to the ground as you most likely have a bunch of evidence that you were the one who made the thing that they took credit for. But I doubt you'll have to go that far as you could very easily contact the platform (like Newgrounds or Itch.io) and after explaining the situation have the fraud be dealt with.
At 8/24/24 05:16 AM, Th3B3stGam3mak3r wrote:The other way I know how would be to simply post it on newgrounds/scratch however....
1. Refer to number 2 bellow
2. I believe you can upload your game to Newgrounds without publishing it and invite others "privately" to test it. At least I can do so with audio.
