Game Jolt game builds

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Game Jolt game builds Storage

fails: quotaemail?card?Rper-object-cap

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Free tier	3 GB TOTAL PER GAME, not per file. Go upload big things!'), a developer post 4 months old ('the upload limit for total game size on GameJolt has been extended to 3GB'), and a departing developer 11 months old ('GAMEJOLT'S LIMITATION ON THE GAME FILE SIZE OF MAX.3GB'). Earlier it was 1 GB, then 2 GB per build ('that's per build, meaning that if you have multiple builds for different platforms, each one is allowed to be up to 2GB'). unit GB; metered on unstated
Price	none stated
Per-object cap	Max filesize for builds has now been bumped to 3GB (3000000000 bytes)
Retention	per-object-cap: 3 GB total per game (all builds counted together, per the developer posts). retention: indefinite for published games
Egress	Free, Cloudflare-fronted (Server: cloudflare, cf-cache-status: HIT on the storefront). No billing. No separate CDN hostname was resolvable from here (mproxy./build./games.gamejolt.net all NXDOMAIN), so downloads are served through the main site edge.
Identity	email (placeholder) not published
Limits	per-object-cap Max filesize for builds has now been bumped to 3GB source per-object-cap: 3 GB total per game (all builds counted together, per the developer posts). retention: indefinite for published games. request-rate: not published. Upload is browser-based; several developers report having to leave the platform at exactly this cap.
Binding	per-object-cap the per-object cap sets the shard size and therefore the object count; it bounds the total more tightly than any headline quota
Interface	rest, sftp, cli rest
Tooling	Web dashboard only ('Add Your Game' at /dashboard/games/add) - no upload API, no SFTP, no CLI. Read side is ordinary HTTPS GET from game pages. The public Game Jolt API v1_2 is for auth/scores/trophies/data-store, not file transfer.
Composes with	unlimited games per account x 3 GB each. That is the only multiplication available, and it is account-bound rather than file-bound - 500 GB would need ~167 games, and 3 GB is below the brief's 500 GB-per-unit filter unless you count per-account aggregate.
Reliability	The cap is the finding and it is enforced at the game level, so splitting into multiple builds or platforms does not raise it. Multiple independent developers left Game Jolt for itch.io citing this limit, which is corroborating evidence that it is enforced rather than advisory. Some gamejolt.com pages return 403/422 to non-browser readers, so automated reads are partly blocked.
Notes	3 GB TOTAL PER GAME, not per file. Go upload big things!'), a developer post 4 months old ('the upload limit for total game size on GameJolt has been extended to 3GB'), and a departing developer 11 months old ('GAMEJOLT'S LIMITATION ON THE GAME FILE SIZE OF MAX.3GB'). Earlier it was 1 GB, then 2 GB per build ('that's per build, meaning that if you have multiple builds for different platforms, each one is allowed to be up to 2GB').
Evidence rung	reported One page read moves it to documented.
Checked	2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-04
Parsed numbers	`$.limits[0].value` limit:per-object-cap 3.0 GB

Evidence (5)

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-21	gamejolt.com/p/max-filesize-for-builds-has-now-been-bumped-t	'Max filesize for builds has now been bumped to 3GB instead of 2GB. Go upload big things!'
2026-10-21	ssr.gamejolt.net/p/attention-fellow-devs-this-is-more-aimed-	4 months ago: 'the upload limit for total game size on GameJolt has been extended to 3GB'
2026-10-21	gamejolt.com/p/now-supporting-larger-file-uploads-we-ve-bump	11 years ago: 1 GB -> 2 GB, 'per build ... if you have multiple builds for different platforms, each one is allowed to be up to 2GB'
2026-10-21	gamejolt.com/p/attention-due-to-gamejolt-s-limitation-on-the	11 months ago: developer leaves for itch.io citing the 3 GB cap
2026-10-21	gamejolt.com/	probe: GET -> 200, Server: cloudflare, cf-cache-status: HIT; DNS for mproxy/build/games.gamejolt.net -> NXDOMAIN

More fields (1)

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  "failure_class": "quota",
  "why": "3 GB TOTAL PER GAME, not per file. Go upload big things!'), a developer post 4 months old ('the upload limit for total game size on GameJolt has been extended to 3GB'), and a departing developer 11 months old ('GAMEJOLT'S LIMITATION ON THE GAME FILE SIZE OF MAX.3GB'). Earlier it was 1 GB, then 2 GB per build ('that's per build, meaning that if you have multiple builds for different platforms, each one is allowed to be up to 2GB').",
  "retry_when": null,
  "first_recorded": "2026-10-21"
 }
}

Unknown or withheld values (9)

$.extras.dead_end.retry_when process
$.extras.dead_end.why partly-held
$.free_tier.notes process
$.free_tier.stated partly-held
$.identity_cost.detail defaulted
$.identity_cost.kind identity-defaulted
$.notes partly-held
$.per_object_cap.notes not-extracted
$.retention.notes not-extracted