Adding free games to your site

Free games are one good way to keep people on your site for a
while longer than they might have normally stayed. They can
range in size from only a few Kb up to several Mb. They cover a
wide range of gaming interests from simple card and board games
all the way to deeply involved immersive role playing games.

Most games a webmaster would be interested in would be
flash, java, or shockwave based games. There are other kinds
but I will focus on those in this article. The number and type
of games for a web site are more a matter of personal taste
depending on the webmaster. Some sites might only want a
small number of games, around three or four for most or a large
library of several hundred if you are creating a gaming site or
general “mega site”.

There are a good number of sites that offer free games for
websites. Some offer you just the games so you may upload
them to your own site and there are others that host the games
and provide you with an HTML embedding code so you don’t have
to use your own site’s bandwidth to offer your visitors free games.

A short list of sites offering free games:
www.crazymonkeygames.com
www.freegamesforyourwebsite.com
www.dailyfreegames.com

For more free games just do a search for “free games for websites”
and you will get a long list of sites.

Usually adding the games is just a matter uploading the game
files to you site into a “games” folder, like this…

http://shadowsbastion.com/gameroom/3dreversi/3dreversi.html

Sometimes though you may find games that have only the
game file itself, usually ending in the extension .swf if it is a
flash game. Then you will need to make an HTML page with an
embed code so the game can be played.

The easiest way to do this would be to take the HTML page from
another game that does have one and substitute the file name
and upload it to the one that didn’t come with it’s own HTML file.