Note: it also has a CDN, a custom domain, and I had time to grab a slice of pizza while waiting for some progress bars! Here’s how I did it. First, See . (no mobile support yet, sorry!) the results I used two awesome pieces of technology to accomplish this — and . Unity3d Amazon Web Services 10/14/17: Just a quick note before we get started… I recently launched a site called SIMMER.io that makes the process of getting a game on the web much simpler than using AWS. Check it out! Here we go: I fired up my copy of and created a new 2D project Unity Then I found the Flappy Bird demo on Unity’s and imported it. asset store Next, I opened up the “Main” scene in the assets folder Then I selected “Build and Run” from the File menu: Next I selected “WebGL” as the target platform, and started the build: After typing in a folder name, I waited for a while for Unity to “Convert managed assemblies to C++” …whatever that means While that was going, I fired up my AWS (Amazon Web Services) account and selected “Host a static website”. As a side note AWS, has gotten WAY friendlier in the past year. Great Job ! @awscloud … and I created a new website: Ok! Unity has finished converting the Managed Gigawatt Capacitors to C++. And, they must be awesome capacitors, because now I have flappy running on a local server! I opened up the build folder that I had selected in Unity earlier and tweaked the HTML output to my liking. Then I compressed that contents of folder to .zip and dropped it into AWS. Back in AWS, I clicked “Get a sneak peek at your website” And dayyyyum, there it was on the internet! Time spent so far… 15m. But I didn’t really like the crazy aws-website-flappy-xyz-yada-yada-website-us.amazonaws.com address very much, so I bought a domain name ($12), right from the Amazon interface: I filled out a few forms and got the domain for less than the price of my dinner. And that’s it. I had to wait 20 minutes for Amazon Cloudfront and the domain name to propagate. So I started eating pizza with my favorite topping: I came back and at flappy bird on my new site: . I gotta hand it to both and . They have made the internet way easier than flap flap. lost very quickly http://unitywebgl.com/ AWS Unity Are you interested in learning more about WebGL with Unity? I’m now offering a four hour 60+ lecture course on Udemy. is available to my Medium readers at over 90% off. Just click the link in this paragraph! WebGL with Unity the Ultimate guide Part 2 is now available: . Secure Flappy Bird. HTTPS in 10 minutes

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