Is there something that itch.io does wrong? Anything that ticks you guys off or wish was fixed already? Or is there something amazing that they do for the developers personally?
Besides the capability to exclude tag(s), I think Itch.io should make a new classification for game's demos/trials. A bunch of those are tagged as "free" even though in reality only the demos are free. And this, obviously, could mislead gamers.
That being said, I'm impressed with Itch.io's extensive tag system (even though some of those should be merged, like the "tentacle" and "tentacles" tags that I brought up in my thread here https://itch.io/t/579083/how-is-the-tag-system-here-handled#post-1004287); the ability to make my playlist/library "private" and the wealth of information that I can find on each game's pages.
even though some of those should be merged, like the “tentacle” and “tentacles”
Thanks, just merged those two. If you have any other feel free to tell me
Besides the capability to exclude tag(s), I think Itch.io should make a new classification for game’s demos/trials
I agree that we should handle this better. Currently the only way we support demos right now is if the project is also paid, but may people upload demos without setting/having a price
I want to start by saying that I love Itch. It gets so much right and is a fantastic place for indie developers.
The biggest issue that I would love to see resolved is for potential buyers to have quick and easy access to game ratings and reviews. At the moment you have to rather hunt for the ratings (on the game pages themselves) and the reviews are, AFAIK, only visible to the game authors. I'm at the stage where I will try to encourage people to leave a comment rather than a review as they are far more visible.
Anyway I still love Itch, but if that could be cleared up I would love it even more. :-)
Read the FAQ. And next time, please start a new topic in the right category instead of hijacking unrelated threads. I could easily have missed your post. Also which of your games is it? Can't really diagnose a problem if you don't say where it is. :)
Perhaps I misread the first post and the title of the discussion. I was not trying to hijack the thread.
I was reading other threads and it said that your game can't be recongnized by itch.io unless a game has been downloaded before.
I appreciate this site, and that's not a huge thing to be upset about but it seemed related to the thread. I am still new to this site and was trying to participate. Thank you.
I personally think Itch.io is awesome. They give a lot of freedom to developers and such, the only problem (for me) is the lack of BRL as payment currency, but it's something that doesn't depends only of Itch.io (sigh).
One thing I would like to see is the possibility of having different translated game pages for the same game and developer. I'm thinking about localizing my games, but the titles are in PT-BR and I'm planning to translate both titles and game page descriptions as well. For this, I would need to create another account with my profile localized and new game pages for each game (and I also can't use the same Paypal account with two accounts =/ ).
I really love itch, my only big problem is with the search feature.
Having the search engine only index games with published files is really confusing… plus it kind of kills devlogs of unreleased projects, which you’d think is the whole point of devlogs. You can cheat this a bit by releasing a demo / early version, but still, I don’t see a reason why you can’t search for an in-development project (If you could, people could add it to a collection so that they buy it when it’s released)