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Is that Krampus?

Yeah the place names are literally Winter Palisades, Spring of Eternity, and Summer Islands. I was blocked so I made something cheesy like that.

Actually, it's game logic. "I know an old lady who swallowed a horse... (she died of course)"  And so will you if you try to eat horses.  Basically, it's not that you're being eaten in this case but that the animal gave you explosive indigestion.

When you have eaten everything not likely to cause upset stomach, head to the farmer up top and he'll give you a key to the gate.

It shows up on the dashboard. It also notifies you, "(Your game) was sold for $(price)."  

The way itch.io's system works is weird in general. When you publish a game, there is a checkbox, saying "Make game visible." If you don't check that box, your game that you published is not visible. Ummmmm, so when I publish a book, if the publisher don't put it on the shelves, if they don't even put it in a search engine, that doesn't seem very published to me.  We call these things "Drafts."

And yes, writing a long review that nobody could see is kinda off.

I don't have a paypal account, so I just set the option for itch.io to save my money until whatever and it gets delivered or something. So no, as it's yet to be the first purchase, I'm not exactly clued on on my own purchases.

I listed an absurd suggested price for this game. I recommend you change it before downloading.

 Unless you want to give me that much, of course.

Still new here.

What I mean by this question is, I have a game that is Name your Price. I have no idea if people paid for it or not, but I do know that I update whenever I make a new version.  Suppose I upload a game and people pay $2 or so for it. The game is external so people download it from a site. Then I update it. Do they pay $2 each time? Or once they pay, is it free to download another version?

It's NSFW according to me. I marked it as NSFW figuring to err on the side of caution. My issue is that this one game is clicked as NSFW under metadata, therefore my entire profile shows up like the picture above. There isn't a "separate games are separate games" approach to profiles.  Yes, I suppose I could change it back? But then I figure acceptable use might later harass me about it. Ah okay, you talked me into it. If acceptable use complains about it later, do they give me notification that I can properly modify it? Or is it abruptly just delisted? That's the sort of thing I'm concerned about, some sorta scary mod action. Like, being away from itch.io for a year and finding all my games were gone because mods were like "Oracle of Tao has moaning sounds in it."

So basically, the short version is, all other games are screwed and there's very little I can do about that. Oh well.

I was wondering about that. Yeah it didn't really fit the Adult category, but it did need some kind of content warning.

NSFW was a funny way of saying that even if it was your job to playtest video games (that is a reality for some people), if someone walked by to THAT game, they might think you were goofing off and not playing videogames.

So my main remaining question is if there is any way for the other games I have to show up. Because as I say, last I checked, I search my own profile for my other games when offline. I could search specifically by game name, but I imagine someone wondering what other games I do being unable to find me.

So, I've got one game, Oracle of Tao, that I originally marked as Adult, but after seeing just how adult the Adult games were, I untagged that and simply checked the Metadata for sensitive content.  It's a fantasy genre game with sex happening (mainly loud moaning) but not that graphically, not an Adult game with fantasy elements (my concern is that it's a miscategorization), so I decided to untag Adult but I'll keep the metadata.  In any case, it still isn't visible for someone offline, as I discovered when testing it. Which to me says that someone NSFW or a minor shouldn't be able to see it.

The problem? While offline and testing visibility, I cannot search for my creator name.

This seems like a bug. If one game is being hidden, that game and that game only ought to be hidden.  But I cannot see any games from typing in my username as a creator. Could you maybe make this more selective so my games can actually show up?

If it seems like these games are going up really fast, it's because I've decided to export my games from rpgmaker.net to here.  

It seemed to have something to do with my Waterfox browser. I downloaded Firefox just for the game, and it worked.

"A few seconds left..." on download. Demo, the Part 1, Complete, all of these hang before I get an actual game.

I feel scammed.

Okay, it appears to be an issue with Waterfox (I run it because it supports more add-ons). But Firefox also tried to hang. If itch.io will allow it, I recommend using a self-extractor install file like you get from InstallCreator. I'm not sure big .zip files do well.