Publishing Your Game

You've created your first game and you're ready to publish it for everyone to play it on https://hytopia.com/games, great! HYTOPIA makes it simple to publish and manage your games. We even automatically handle everything from scaling servers, providing you with crash logs and analytics, and more!

All of HYTOPIA's services are free for developers. Server scaling, multiplayer systems, etc are all internally managed by us. All you need to worry about is building great games, we'll handle the rest!

1. Create a HYTOPIA Account

If you haven't created a HYTOPIA account yet, head over to https://hytopia.com/games/ and click "Login". You'll automatically be prompted to sign in or sign up, choose the login provider you prefer. This account will be used to manage your games through HYTOPIA's Create portal.

2. Visit the Create Portal

Once you're logged in, open https://hytopia.com/create/ - this is the HYTOPIA Create portal. You'll use this anytime you want to create a game, view your games' stats, update your published games, etc.

In the top right, you'll see a button to Create New Game, click that.

Enter the name of your game, and continue to create it. You can change this later.

3. Editing Your Game Listing

You have full control of your game listing and how it shows on https://hytopia.com/games and in the HYTOPIA mobile and desktop apps.

You can update everything from the game description, icon, feature image, gallery images, and more. Explore around, edit your game listing as you see fit, and save when you've made changes.

4. Uploading Your Game Code

When you're ready to upload your game code, or push an update to your existing game, you can go to the Hosting tab.

In this tab, press the Upload Game button. You'll be prompted to enter a name for your game code (This is typically a version number for your game, or anything identifiable by you), as well as a packaged .zip of your game. You can generate the zip package of your game by running bunx hytopia package in your HYTOPIA project folder. A zip will be created in your project folder. This is the zip you upload to HYTOPIA.

5. Testing Your Game

It's always smart to test your game or updates in a live environment before they get released to the world. Once your uploaded game version is done validating (This can take a few minutes), you'll see a Test Now button next to it. Click that to launch and test that uploaded version of your game.

5a. Testing Your Game With Others

If you want to test your uploaded game or update with others, whether they be testers or friends, you can do that before fully releasing your game or update.

First, hit Test Now for the game version you want to test.

Next, anyone who you've accepted as a friend on HYTOPIA can view your username from their friends list. Next to your name is a ... menu button, clicking that they can join the game you're currently in. This allows them to join and play the game you're testing.

6. Submitting Your Game

After you've updated your game listing and uploaded and tested a version of your game you'd like to submit, you can click Submit Game.

You'll be prompted to select the uploaded version of your game you'd like to submit. Select it, hit submit, and it will be pending review! The HYTOPIA team will review your game for any bugs, ToS violations, or other issues and either reject your game with clarifications of fixes or issues that need to be addressed before you resubmit and update version, or if all goes well your game will be accepted and available for everyone to play on HYTOPIA!