Porting to Facebook instant games

t.ybema · October 22, 2019, 10:33am

I’m struggling to get my game on Facebook Instant games.
Steps I’ve taken so far:

Created the game starting from the mobile game template.
Tested it as an HTML5 game on my website. Numbercruncher 1.0
Set up de Facebook extension as a dependency
Created a Facebook developer account
created a test app on Facebook
added fbapp-config.json
uploaded the game to Facebook.
tested the game as a test user.

I’m trying to get the game working as is in Facebook. Without any extra perks, like logins or multi-user, adds or whatever. Just get is working.
so far I’ve pieced together all the different manuals and the game almost loads in as a test game. The game starts, but it hangs on the load screen. (see the video below)

I could really use some help. At this point I’m just bouncing from one manual to the other.
Is this an index.html problem, is it the json file? Have I not use a mandatory api call in the scripts? How do I proceed from here?

britzl · October 22, 2019, 10:42am

Make sure that you are calling fbinstant.initialize() and fbinstant.start_game() like in the example game:

github.com

defold/extension-fbinstant/blob/master/tictactoe/tictactoe.script#L43-L61


		fbinstant.initialize(function(self, success)
			if not success then
				print("ERROR! Unable to initialize FBInstant")
				return
			end
			
			fbinstant.start_game(function(self, success)
				if not success then
					print("ERROR! Unable to start game")
					return
				end
				local context_id, context_type = fbinstant.get_context()
				if not context_id or context_type == fbinstant.CONTEXT_SOLO then
					monarch.show(hash("start"))
				else
					monarch.show(hash("game"), nil, { context_id = context_id })
				end
			end)
		end)

t.ybema · October 22, 2019, 6:27pm

Thanks! Will try that.