Using URL hyperlinks to specific game matches?

Questions
#1

I’m making a browser-based game in defold, for now it’s just tic-tac-toe.
I want to make a feature that lets you share a URL, such as through discord, twitter, etc to post a match so others can watch the replay or spectate it live etc.

For example if the game is normally playable at www.mygame.com, a URL might look like:
www.mygame.com/matchid?=1234

Is there a way to make this type of URL ‘talk’ to a Defold game so that Defold can navigate the game to that specific match, in other words a match with the ID of “1234”?

#2

On mobile, what you are talking is called Universal Link.
For Defold, unfortunately there’s no current supporting extension for that but you can use extension-iac
The idea here is from your webpage you can redirect to your app uri such as yourappscheme://match/123

If your game is just a HTML5 game so it’s must easier when you can use html5.run(...) in lua scripts to get the query value from current browser url

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#3

Thank you!

#4

You can look at example with HTML5 params here:

Get query params: https://github.com/Insality/druid/blob/master/example/example.gui_script#L223
Set query params: https://github.com/Insality/druid/blob/master/example/example.gui_script#L28

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