Mine isn't showing up in searches even though it has a downloadable build. Does it need at least one download (hence one purchase) first? Or does it just take awhile before it's indexed?
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I seem to have the same problem with a game I published a little over 1 hour ago. I don't know if games for sale just take longer to show up on the site than free HTML5 games (I made a simple html5 Christmas platformer last week and it appeared in just a few minutes) or if someone actually does need to buy it first?
It seems kind of strange if someone would need to buy it before it actually shows up. Kind of backwards. LOL
Mine still isn't showing up in searches after three days, so it isn't just a matter of waiting for it to be indexed. It would be kind of nice to know what needs to be done. Here it is...any idea what I need to do to get it to come up? https://starvingindiedeveloper.itch.io/the-spook-inspectors
You seem to be in a slightly worse position than I am. Because not only can I NOT find your game but I cannot even find YOU on the site when I search for StarvingIndieDeveloper. Normally you can search for a user / creator and find them. For you I get No results found.
Maybe it has something to do with the big winter sale going on and the system / admins are much busier than normal. That could very well be part of it.
I even made a dev log which I read was supposed to help to get your game showing up faster. But even my dev log itself doesn't show up in search. LOL
All I can think is maybe if we comment on each others games that might help us both out? Might trigger the system to wake up "oh hey there is some activity on these games"
Mine is here... worked my butt off on it be nice if it actually showed up. lol Anyway our games do not compete at all with each other so maybe a comment will be good all around.
Here is my game... https://garbenjamin.itch.io/garsdefensegame
And I just commented on yours and I didn't think of it until just now but I will also follow you to see if that helps to get you existing in the search.
Ah nevermind. If you look in this thread over here.... https://itch.io/t/363854/my-game-3-geeks-doesnt-seem-to-show-up-in-the-site
A moderator commented "Your game has a price label attached, so it has to be seen by an admin before it appears in searches. It should take another half a day to a day. Feel free to contact support if the problem persists much longer than that."
I kind of figured it might need to be manually checked but just had no idea if that was the case or not.
Anyway good luck! =)