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Is there such a thing as reviewing games before they are released ?

A topic by OyunKontrol created 20 days ago Views: 200 Replies: 10
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The games I previously published were not appearing in the search section and this was later fixed. Now I uploaded a new project and it still doesn't show up the same way. I can only see it on my own profile page.

I wonder if the games are reviewed and then they appear in the "most recent" section.

Because I see a lot of games and those who publish them have just opened their accounts and haven't even edited their profiles, but their games are on the page within 5 minutes.

Here is my project : https://oyunkontrol.itch.io/cargo-demo

And the invisibility thing I mentioned :


Moderator

Yes, please read the rules of this category. They point at this page: https://itch.io/docs/creators/getting-indexed

Thank you so much for your understanding feedback🙏

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I wonder if the games are reviewed and then they appear in the "most recent" section.

I believe you meant all games when saying the games and not just your games.

All games go in a black box that decides by magic and rng which games get in queue and which get indexed right away. Much like on an airport and random security searches. There is one special case that is supposed to be searched always. First time paid games. But that does not say anything about subsequent games.

Yes, a review is really necessary. It was written in the rules that safe accounts do not need to be reviewed. That's why I wanted to make sure that they were being examined one by one.

Even long established accounts can get on the review queue and even in quarantine. The danger of hacked accounts is real. I have seen over 500 of those last year. Not kidding.

i pubblished one totally paid app (from1 to 3 €) and two free apps in a version (browser/linux) and paid in Windows/Android/Mac version,so they wont be indexed?

so they wont be indexed?

If they are not, you will have to wait. It can take a while. Promote your app normally. Being indexed does not change accessibility and no one is gonna search your app by name, so you will have to promote it anyways.

Also, please look up what open source means. Your tool is not open source.

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my source-code is actually pubblic on my github repo. So is actually open-source. https://github.com/simonov123. Open source means that the code is pubblic. 

If you say so. Telling people "project xy is open source", but not telling them where the source is, on that project page, does look kinda strange to me. Also, public available sources and "open source" is not quite the same, in my opinion. I am not an expert on this, but if your project is open source, you should have some kind of license file in your github explaining the license. At least I usually see such license files.

Just because I could copy your project's source and fork it, does not mean, I am allowed to. If you want to discuss this further, please make a new topic. It has little to do with your project's index status or if it is in the review queue because you have payments active as a first time publisher.

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