This post used to contain specific advice, but we now have a fully-fledged guide instead!
- Read the Game developer quickstart from the itch documentation
Sure. Just leave me the time to do it right :)
In the meantime, collections are the easiest way — shop on site, play in app.
Until manifest support is in, there's no way to override it.
That said, for known installers like DirectX, there's easy ways to detect that, I'll push that in a version soon — https://github.com/itchio/itch/issues/186
Can you link me to your game? If it's a rather typical Construct 2 export, I can make sure it runs well :)
Web games are also planned — https://github.com/itchio/itch/issues/47
Supporting them is a lot easier than native games, so I left that as a goodie for later :) But it's coming, no worries.
Oh don't worry, I'm not going to ask :) But no, the app requires Windows 7 or higher, because it's based on electron, which doesn't support anything older.
Yep, that's the way most Linux distributions behave and it's been annoying third-party developers for years now :(
The only option that I know of is to provide a .desktop file, which will appear as a shortcut and is double-clickable to launch the game. Absolute/relative paths may be an issue there though :(
Thanks for reminding me about .desktop files! Indeed relative paths seem to be not working at all, but there's a workaround (thanks to this SO answer), use %k in Exec line of .desktop file to get path to .desktop file itself, and than extract directory name:
Exec=bash -c "$(dirname %k)/launch"
.desktop file is also better than bare bash script because it may be displayed with custom icon, and even localized name.
UPDATE about icon: looks like relative-path icon is not possible. This time really :(
That's right, the itch app uses the same engine as Chrome/Chromium - which is usually pretty good at getting WebGL running, at least on Windows/macOS, I'm surprised it doesn't seem to work with your system, maybe it's a bug on their end?
We keep in sync with Electron, which keeps in sync with Chromium, regularly, so if it gets fixed upstream, itch will get the fix as well!
Is the issue that it doesn't install? Games in draft are not yet supported by the itch app, see https://github.com/itchio/itch/issues/1080 - the problem will go away as soon as you publish the game.
Actually, I didn't bothered hitting the install button. Since it's a WebGL game, I thought that it would run on the app in the same fashion as the browser by displaying a rectangle with the game. =P
Now that the game is installed, it's working normally.
I guess that you will have to speak to the dev and it's not an issue on the platform app.
It seems to work fine in the beta:
Can you confirm it does for you too?
You can download the beta here: https://fasterthanlime.itch.io/install-kitch
I ended up doing that in the end so everything is fine now. Thanks for your suggestion! ^^
No, back when I still used to upload zips manually I tried downloading my games in the app to check if they worked. They worked just fine.
You did not tag the platform for your files and as such the application cannot figure out which file to download.
