How to share your webplayer on Google drive or Dropbox

For those who don’t know or cant upload their game to the internet to show the game off, well here’s a Tutorial on how to do so.

Note : If you havent had a dropbox account before October 4 2012, you will require a pro or business dropbox account to enable your public folder(if you dont have one).
Meaning, if you create a dropbox account after October 4 2012, you will need a pro account to have a public folder.

The Google drive method (Steps) :

Note : When building the webplayer, make sure the Offline deployment option is checked off,
Requirements :

  • A Google drive account
  • Your game .html and .unity3d files
  • Google drive Installed(Optional)

Video :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ml_40d-mU0g

Step 1 : Go to drive.google.com and sign in, or sign up

Step 2 : Create a folder for your webplayer, inside it, upload your .html and .unity3d files

Step 3 : Right click on the folder, select share, Then click on advanced

Step 4 : Make sure that the folder is public and anyone can view it

Step 5 : Click done, then Right click folder, select share, and copy the shareable link

Step 6 : Copy the ID from this link (which looks like this https://drive.google.com/file/d/[here_goes_your_id]/view?usp=sharing ) to this template: https://googledrive.com/host/[here_goes_your_id]

Step 7 : Add the name of your .html file at the end of the url. For example : https://googledrive.com/host/[here_goes_your_id]/yourHTMLfile.html

Step 8(Optional) : Go to http://tiny.cc and shorten the link

The Dropbox method (Steps) :

https://www.dropbox.com/en/help/16 - What is a public dropbox folder

Requirements :

  • A Dropbox account (Requires pro user if created after October 4 2012)
  • Your game html. and .unity3d files
  • Dropbox Installed(Optional)

Step 1 : Go To dropbox.com and sign in, or sign up

Step 2(Optional) : Download Dropbox client for your Desktop.

Step 3 : Go here, to create a public folder if you dont have one in the root of dropbox

Step 4 : Inside the public folder, place your yourgame.unity3d, and yourgame.html

Step 5 : Select the html file and copy its public link.
This is the url to the webplayer game.

Step 6 : Change from https:// To http://

Step 7(Optional) : Go to http://tiny.cc and shorten the link

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And ensure any links you share begin with http:// not https://

Woop, thanks for sharing !

Sorry for the necro guys, just a bump because added another method of sharing the webplayer

Im having trouble. My web player builds hosted on google drive do not load. The progress bar stays at 0. I am positive the whole folder is public. Anyone know whats wrong?

One option is to use Wooglie.com