The site is looking good, CROS. I'm looking forward to posting some games there.

Keep up the good work.

The code is all hosted on our servers. We do have an option with downloadable games for us to mirror files from another site. In that case, the files are still downloaded on to our servers, but any time the file is updated on the mirrored URL, it also updates to our site. We may get this feature working with Java Applets and other online games some time in the future.

This is really neat. I can definitely see myself putting my future (and past!) applets on there.

When uploading a 4kb game, the progress bar said "NaN%" for like 500 ms, then it was done, yay

"The username field is too short.
It must be between 4 and 30 characters long."

Why does it need to be at least 4 characters long? Rolled a dice or something? :f

Edit: By the way... you won't even see that message if JS is disabled. I tried to submit about 5 times in a row... and I thought the whole time I got the captcha wrong.

Hey, thanks to everyone that's signed up so far!

@quixote_arg: This would have to be on a case-by-case basis. We would definitely be willing to talk to developers if that's the case.

@pjt33: Have you signed up? Or were you saying it's not clear before you sign up? It's actually pretty dang easy to get going on the site. The developer uploads the game (and any additional JAR files), enters the main class, the width, the height, and any parameters the game might need. If you have a problem with the process let me know.

Yeah, that's really cool!

I managed to upload and play my game. Awesome site now all my friends on facebook know about your site.  

Yes, I signed up and looked at the "Upload a game" page. Selecting "Java applet" as the type of game changes the form to read:

I don't see anywhere in there for jar, main class, width, height, etc. If those are entered on a separate screen then "Add game" is a misleading button text.

We couldn't put all the functionality on one form. Some people need to upload multiple JARs, put in arguments, etc. It's on another page.

Also, many people add the game to the site, but don't have a game to show yet, and they use the page as a way to put out information on development, such as blog posts, screenshots, videos, etc. Not sure how Add Game is misleading.

CROS can you also have it so you can accept JNLP files for running the applet? I can't seem to figure out to run JavaFX applets with the current setup.

Sparrow uses the Google app engine (and has to be loaded from there for the server/client stuff to work) - does this mean it can't be hosted by Game Jolt, or can you show remotely hosted applets in an iframe, or use URL forwarding or something?

So no Runescape then... 

Hey Analog,

I'm not too knowledgeable with Java, but I'm sure some of the other guys could help you out. Game Jolt allows you to upload one main JAR file, and then multiple other supplemental files that get placed in the codebase of the applet. Also, you can set as many applet params as you need to. Let me know if this helps.

Without JNLP support none of my games can be uploaded. They also needs to use the JNLPAppletLauncher for backwards compatibility with pre Java 6 update 15 JVMs (which includes the majority of users). The main change required in the Applet HTML code is to be able to add extra links to the applets archive path. Presumably (or hopefully) that would also allow other users to use JavaFX.

I would also need to upload the JNLP file, but I presume this can already be done via the 'Upload Extra File' page.

Slick.