Post by redonihunter in More platform choices to cover console-based homebrew games

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This discussion made me realize something that botherd me for a while.

The tag box with the suggested tags should include certain special tags as suggestions.

Including the platforms. It already includes the genres, even though they are listed as filters on the left side.

That ties in with this issue: the regular search box will actually display the existence of the https://itch.io/games/tag-unreal-engine , when searching https://itch.io/search?q=unreal , but there is https://itch.io/games/made-with-unreal-engine which is not displayed as a result (because it is not in the suggested tag box). It is not even listed in the footer directory - which is hard to reach with endless scroll enabled, btw.

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leafoAdmin2 days ago (1 edit) (+1)

From the directory, you can go Tools & Engines > Game Engines to find all the “Made with…” links.

The “Made with…” pages are indexed in the auto-completer but are not currently indexed in the full page search results. The UI of that page needs to be redesigned before we start introducing new result types & filtering.

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redonihunter2 days ago(+1)

Oh, there they are. Btw, the header link, https://itch.io/game-development is empty ("see all tools", on directory)

I had to think what auto completer meant. Yes, the results while typing do show the special tags and platforms. And the actual results will not.

I thought it might be a simple matter to just include the special tags in the list of the suggested tags, so they would also appear as search results and also be visible when using the suggested tag box. That one does not have an auto completer. It only searches the content of the drop down box.

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