So the Chrome App Store seems to be a pretty easy place to get a little extra traffic to your web game. It's pretty easy to create a new app. You have to sign up for a Developer account, I did this a while ago so I can't remember the details, but it was pretty easy. They do ask you for a credit card and you have to spend something like $5 to get an account, but if you are running Google Ads on your web apps you can make that back pretty quickly.

What Google defines as a web app is really just a web page. They don't have any restrictions on it, so if you want to you can basically use it to drop a link to one of your sites. The only problem with this is that people will complain and give you a low rating. Once you have an account you have to create a manifest.json file, which is just a text file that tells Google what the name of your game is, where the web page is located, and what the name of your icon file is (although the icon file doesn't really matter because you have to upload that later anyway).

Here is an example from one of my games:

{
"name": "Arcade Typing Game",
"version": "1.0.2.0",
"icons": { "128": "typing_icon.png" },
"app": {
"urls": [
"http://www.itypinggames.com/ChromeTyping.html"
],
"launch": {
"web_url": "http://www.itypinggames.com/ChromeTyping.html"
}
}
}

The json file has to be uploaded in a .zip for some reason. You'll also have to upload the icon file and the screen shot separately... even if you include the icon file in the .zip you uploaded.

If anyone has any chrome apps they would like me to give 5 star ratings, feel free to post them here.

If anyone wants to give me a 5 star rating to help me out, here are some links to a few of my games.

Mahjong Words
Solitaire
Reversi
Word Search
Typing Game
Spades Card Game
If you have complaints about the games, post them on this blog rather than hurt my Chrome Store rating please