Flash Tutorials Market Your Flash Game Using Facebook Applications!
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| Written by Waleed Al-Bahrawy |
| Friday, 13 February 2009 10:12 |
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While I was looking in the internet for ways to make Facebook applications for my game Sky MazezZ I found this amazing website Clearspring that does everything for you without any programing effort!!
What this website does is making a widget out of your flash game and then ebmeding it in a Facebook application. Lets take a look at how this is done.
Part 1: Creating Widget.
1- First of all you need to upload your .SWF file of the game into a host, it might be in your own website or if you dont have one you can make a site on google sites and upload the file on the site.
2- Go to http://www.Clearspring.com/ and Sign up. 3- After signing in into your account click on Add Widget. 4- In the next page choose In My Widget. 5- In Add New Widget page do the following: 5.1- Under Select Widget Type choose Flash. 5.2- Choose the version of Action Script you developed your game in, either AS3 or AS2. 5.3- Beside Flash URL put the link to your SWF file. 5.4- In the next field enter your game name 5.5- Choose Games as Category and Click Save Widget.
If everything is ok you will be directed to a page that says Congrats! You added your Widget!
Now you did it, you created a widget of your flash game, lets now work on making a Facebook application out of the widget.
Part 2: Creating Facebook Application.
1- In the congrating page click on Publish Your Widget. 2- Choose Facebook App. 3- In the Facebook Application Wizard page choose Yes if you have an application on Facebook from before or No if you dont. Click Next. 4- Now log in to Facebook, after logging in go back to Clearspring and check the box that says I have logged in to Facebook and click Next.
One of the BEAUTIFUL things about this website is that you can work on Facebook from it. Look at the bottom of the page !
5- Now scroll down to the Facebook area of the page and do the following: 5.1- Enter your game's name beside "Application Name". 5.2- Agree to the Facebook Platform Terms of Service. 5.3- Click Save Changes.
5.4- Copy the Application ID Facebook will give you.
5.5- Scroll up to Clearspring part and paste the it in the field beside "Enter the Application ID:". Click Next.
6- Scroll down to the Facebook part and do the following:
6.1- Write the name of your game in the Canvas Page URL, as below and it is prefered to not have spaces in the name.
The Canvas Page URL will be the link of your flash game application on Facebook. Click Save Changes
6.2- Copy your Canvas URL from Facebook part and scroll up to Clearspring part and paste it in the field beside Copy your Canvas URL from Facebook:.
Click Next.
7- In Facebook part click Users beside "Who can use your application?". Then click Save Changes.
Scroll up to Clearspring part and click on I have submitted the form on Facebook (B) that is beside the Next button, then click Next.
8- In this step you need to copy some information from the Facebook part and paste it in Clearspring part as follows: 8.1- Copy API Key and paste into respective Clearspring field. 8.2- Copy Secret and paste into respective Clearspring field. 8.3- Copy the Application Name and paste into respective Clearspring field. 8.4- Verify the Canvas Page URL in the Clearspring field. "Not the full URL. Just the canvas name you entered on Facebook."
Click Save then Next.
9- In this step you do two things uploading an icon and a logo of your game and verifying if Callback URL and Post-Remove Callback URL in Clearspring part matches the ones in Facebook part. 9.1- Scroll down to Facebook and verify the Callback URL matches the respective Clearspring Callback URL field.
9.2- upload an icon and a logo of your game
9.3- Click on Authentication Tab in the left
and verify the Post-Remove Callback URL matches the respective Clearspring Post-Remove Callback URLfield.
Click Save Changes in Facebook part, and click on I have verified the Callback URLs and clicked Save Changes in Clearspring and click Next.
10- In this step you will write a description about your game and upload a logo of your game, in Facebook part do the following: 10.1- Click on Application Information . - Write a describtion about your game in the Description of Application: field. - Select Gaming as Category. - Choose if you are a company or a developer. Click Submit.
10.2- Now upload the logo of your game.
In Clearapring click Finish.
11- Now click on Enable to publish your game on Facebook, then click Save.
Scroll down to the bottom part of the page you will find the URLs of your application
Bookmark URL is the your game's Facebook application link.
And thats it!! invite your friends to add the application and ask them to distribute it ;D
I hope I helped you in how to make a Facebook application out of your flash game and I will be happy to answer any questions from you,, Related Articles
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| Last Updated on Friday, 13 February 2009 13:39 |
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