How do I get video to work for Unity WebGL? This is one of my number one questions and I finally have a tutorial for it. These instructions should help you whether you're building your game for SIMMER.io or if you're doing self hosting. You can see the results of this tutorial here: https://simmer.io/@TheRoccoB/webgl-video-demo (click the screen to start the video). Key Concept ...more

You might know that you can embed your SIMMER games into other websites (like a personal website, or wordpress site). You simply use the embed button below your game and copy the HTML code into your website. Starting today, 10/24/2020, we may show preroll ads before on games that you embed on other sites in order to be fiscally responsible and keep the site sustainable. This only ...more

Hola a todos, mi nombre es Alejandro Zamora y soy el Manejador de la Comunidad para simmer.io. Es posible que me hayas visto comentar sobre algunos de tus juegos o tal vez me hayas visto comentar sobre un juego de otra persona. Además de comentar sobre juegos, también soy yo quien crea los videos de SIMMER Rewind, promociona los juegos a Editor's Choice o Founder's Club, y coloca l ...more

Hey there everyone, my name is Alejandro Zamora and I'm a Community Manager for simmer.io. You may have seen me comment on some of your games or maybe you might have seen me comment on someone else's game. Apart from commenting on games I'm also the one who creates the SIMMER Rewind videos, promotes games to Editor's Choice or Founder's Club, and puts videos on the front page. I us ...more

There's a simple way to add an external link in Unity WebGL, that will work with simmer or any other site that embeds your game in a frame (itch.io, kongregate, gamejolt, etc). See the example running live here: https://simmer.io/@TheRoccoB/external-link-example Set up a normal handler for your button, and then attach the following code as your click handler: public void Ope ...more

Hello, thank you for subscribing to #SIMMERconnect! Your subscription gets you a ton of great ways to share your game on the web. Read on about the different benefits you'll enjoy as a member of #SIMMERconnect! The basics To get started, upload a Unity WebGL game to SIMMER's upload page. If you already have one, that's great! Go to your profile and access your game(s) using th ...more

Register here! Join the discussion at: https://discord.gg/2wGJeH6 SCROLL DOWN FOR THE THEME! Or watch the theme reveal video here: https://youtu.be/25GnI8rn-aI #SIMMERjam 2.0 is a Game Jam for Unity developers that will take place November 8-10, 2019 at simmer.io! The theme will be announced Nov 8 at 3PM Pacific, and entries will be due on Nov 10, 11PM Pacific. You can join our ...more

This article will explain how to hook a custom domain – such as http://myawesomegame.com to a game that you host on SIMMER. You'll need three things: * github account (a free one is fine) * paid SIMMER hosting account (see plans) * a domain name You must purchase your own domain name outside of SIMMER--they usually cost about $12/yr. I personally recommend Google Domains or G ...more

SIMMER.io is the first game portal website to provide a simple UI to for game developers to include the Web Monetization API, a proposed W3C standard. Web Monetization provides a simple way for creators to get paid for what they post online. This comes on the heels of an announcement by Mozilla, Creative Commons and Coil.com to provide 100M in grants in order to provide the inter ...more

Nobody likes waiting. Let's start by saying that I truly believe that a new era has dawned for games in the browser. With open technologies like WebGL and WebAssembly and fabulous development tools like Unity3D and Playcanvas, it has gotten very easy to create native-like creations that are playable in Chrome, Firefox, and (gasp!) Edge. There's no friction for web games. There ar ...more

Generally, Unity WebGL builds do not work well on mobile, but that doesn't keep ingenious engineers like ourselves from trying! We'll look at how to serve a Unity build locally and then how to serve it on the internet without the need for a web hosting service! For this tutorial, you'll need an LTS version of node.js installed, as well as the serve npm module and ngrok. Once you ...more

When you "Build and Run" a Unity WebGL build, Unity internally serves your build with a static local web server. Usually the address is something like "http://localhost:29531". It sometimes can be painful to relaunch this server. The workflow that I've seen has been to just "Build and Run" again from Unity, but this can take a long time. This can be especially painful if you're tr ...more

SIMMER.io is a site for 3D content and games to be played directly in the web browser. The tagline is: "Discover, Share, Play Anywhere". The site opened up for developer uploads in September of 2017. It has gone through a few iterations: at first it was a prototype called "WebGLTube", then simmerindustries.com, and now it's called SIMMER.io. This site is the simplest way to share ...more

So you came here looking for how to install Unity Web player in 2019 on Chrome, Firefox or Edge. The basic answer here is that you shouldn't do it (see: disclaimer) but there are a few ways to make it happen if you insist. Disclaimer The short answer is that the Unity Web Player is now obsolete, and my advice is to NOT follow these instructions! They might open you up to hacking ...more