Publishing on your own website

Whimsy exports plain .html files that can be hosted as is. You can add the exported game to your website directory through FTP, Git, or web interface — that depends on what you're using for making your website — and it will just work. To later update the game, replace the existing .html file with a new one.

Publishing on WordPress, Tilda, Wix, etc.

Some CMS and website-making services do not support adding HTML pages directly. For such cases, consider publishing a game on itch.io, another service, or on your own static website. Making a static website is not that complicated, and, for example, you can use Netlify with basic knowledge of Git to make a simple website for free. Once you publish your game there, you will be able to add it to your main website as an embed or iframe.

Netlify Drop

Publishing on Netlify is easy — and free!

1. Export the Whimsy game as usual. (The 📦 button in the top-right corner.) You will get a Story name.html file.
2. Create a folder with any name and put your .html file there.
3. Rename the game's file into index.html
4. Open app.netlify.com/drop.
5. Drop the folder you've created. After a short time, your site will be created and published on Netlify!

You can open the resulting website with the "Open the production build" button:

When you need to update the game, you can drop a folder with a new index.html in the Deploy tab:

Publishing on Neocities

Neocities is a free web hosting and a social network for simple HTML sites. It offers 1Gb of free space — which is more than enough for Whimsy games!