There are so many features on this site, no one knows about... (did not know this feature ^^)
My favorite is the hidden landing page, as soon as you make an account. Unless you bookmarked it, you never ever visit itch.io again. The link to it is hidden in plain sight, because it is an icon next to text. And the text has this css tricks to underline it red.
I did notice you can click on the icon. Is there any other feature you can tell me about ;)
And take the "fun" away from discovering them yourself?
But to elaborate on your original question, you cannot do this inside your game, since the player is not logged in as an itch user. What you can do, is what magic said, you can put a link in your game, so the browser of the player opens and if the player is logged in, now rating can commence.
On your game page and in the game you can of course do what all the youtubers do. Begask for comments, likes and subscribe.
Now, some unrelated things I found out.
2fa protection does not do anything against cookie theft attacks.
There is a ton of malware on itch, new is uploaded daily, including hacked accounts, so do not trust anyone, just because they are hosted on itch, not even if the file is two years old - it takes a lot more to earn the trust needed to execute files from a stranger, an amateur developer at that, most of the time.
There is an itch app.
Reviews are not public to the game, but might be public to the feed. And a rating and a review is one and the same. One could say, a rating is a review without text.
There is a community forum on itch.
There are more people hating horror and commenting about it, then there are people liking horror and commenting about it, even though the most popular by far genre is horror.
You can searchfilter for tags and the box to filter tags is a write in box, not a pure select box.
You cannot search tags. Although, you can, but only those that are in the predefined list of that box.
The search button searches titles. Like, literally. It is not a genral purpose search box. If you find something without a title match, it was a manually created alias or there were not enough results and the box did do a tiny bit description search.
Pay what you want is a thing.
The css designers of itch have huge displays and a fine eyesight. (Try zooming in and see elements disappearing).
Games can be jammed.
About the malware on itch isn't new released games should enter a review queue? I mean someone must approve the project to be indexed otherwise we can't find it right?
yeah i know itch is famous to have horror game in it, It's the most popular genre here not sure why but they exist.
yes i do know you can exclude a tag from the search result i use it once in a while.
There are theories about the popularity of horror. My guess is, that it is a combination of factors which include nowadays the notion that horror games are most popular on itch, therefore a new developer tries to release a horror game first. But I think it starts with youtubers driving trafic here. There are probably more views to be made with playing horror game than platformer games.
And regarding the bad uploads here, not everything is being manually reviewed. That is the thing itch does not advertise enough to new users: there is no uploader verification, and no file verification and no human scrutiny to projects. Oh, there is some scans, but that catches only the most blatant stuff. And of course you can be put on the queue for any arbitrary reason, they will not tell you about. In consequence, a malicious uploader can upload bad stuff here, and as long as no one reports it or it does not get caught in any automatic scanning or be put in the queue, it will linger here, gaining the perceived legitimacy of being hosted on itch.
You yourself are proof of this flaw. You thought, that everything here went through some sort of review. The criminals just need to use some sort of shotgun tactics. Upload a hundred games and even if 90 get detected, the other 10 are now on the system and it can take weeks, even years (I kid you not), till they get reported.
Ok, The very first question to come in mind is does itch.io trying to Fix this problem or at least Improve itch.io isn't new it's been since 2013,the same Web site UI, the same staff,Issue that was and still exist does itch.io team tried anything in particular I suppose they have the ability and the budget to do so right?
