Does itch have Wishlist feature? if not does it have anything similar to a Wishlist?
I have a game coming this year and I don't know if making a page for my game before release is a good or a bad idea? as I'm thinking how are people going to follow this page? or know when the game is released? or know when a discount is happening? (just like in steam when people get a notification).
On itch.io we have collections. You can think of it as having many different wishlists that you can organize. Click the “Add to collection” button to create a new collection or add a game to an existing collection.
Games in you collections will appear in your library and will allow you to receive notifications when they go on sale.
Thanks a lot for your response, so if I made a page for my upcoming game (I'm an indie developer) before release, how to hook people to it, is the only way is collections? Is there a button for that that I can put on the page (call to action), because I'm pretty sure that most people are familiar with wishlist rather than collections, I mean if I made a video about that, in case of steam you say in the video or trailer wishlist now this way people know that the game is coming soon but you can like reserve it and get notified on release or whatever, but on itch what do I say? Add it to your collection? Most people won't know exactly what to do...
My goal is to get people hooked to the page of my upcoming game so when the game is released, they get notified.
Also is it recommended at all on itch to create a page for a game before release or do I wait until release and publish the page on release day?
I would advice, if you can put some content on the page (video, images, some text), to create the page. It helps you to create more followers, deliver devlogs and even you can give ppl links to the page when you are advertising your game elsewere.
I am a hobbiest developer and not an expert, but I do think its better to have a page as soon as possible. Better yet if you can add some demo :)
Hope it helps.
Thanks a lot for your reply, I have everything ready, gifs, screenshots, gameplay trailer and so on ... The game just needs some development time and that's it.
I'm just asking because I never made a page before release but I might consider it, I'm not sure yet because if I release the page and just leave it like that, It will get buried from new games.
I remember the first game I released it was on the release day and the game actually stayed at the top for like 2 months so I might go with again, I'm not really sure, it's really difficult to decide whether to create now or wait on release.
