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Devlog visibility for early in development Android game

A topic by digitalki created Dec 28, 2019 Views: 276 Replies: 4
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Hi,

I've finally decided to  use itchio to do Devlogs and spread the word about my game:

https://digitalki.itch.io/mars

But I have some  questions about it, especially concerning visibility of the Devlog.

As far as I know I have filled every field of the game page, it is actually visible when searching for the game itself, but not the Devlog, I can see that ppl are visiting the devlog entries but my guess they cone from twitter or facebook.

Somehwere I've red that visibility is manually added by an admin. I hope this is the case and that someone can help me.


Another doubt is, is it necessary to have a download link available? My game is still early in development and although I've provided a link it's to a closed alpha testing, ad I don't eant anyone to play untill it's ready for that phase.

Being early in development I don't feel right to share the game with anyone as in most of the cases you'll get comments like"this doesn't work, this looks crappy", and things along the line.

Still to me make sense to be wanting to share progress of my work to anyone interested.

But I am open to suggestions if downloadable game is a requirement. Taking into qccount that the game is for Android.

Cheaz.

Admin(+1)

Pages with devlogs and no files for download are not listed on /games but only on /devlogs. We only want playable projects to appear on /games. Tell me if you have any other questions.

Somehwere I’ve red that visibility is manually added by an admin. I hope this is the case and that someone can help me.

Admin reviews occasionally happen, but generally pages are available as soon as they are published. There’s more information available on our guide: Getting indexed on Search & Browse

thanks for the link, I was not able to find such infomation, at least not googling or browsing with mobile.

Will read it first then come back here.

After reading the page I don't think there's anything wrong with my devlogs.

I was actually able to find it, even if I can't find it with the tag "Game Design": https://digitalki.itch.io/mars/devlog/116185/orbital-view-3d-label-or-not-3d-lab...


I guess it's also a matter of having a "reputation" (my views are getting better at each new article, I'm actually quite happy).

Thanks for your time Leafo!

Hey, just replying to this instead of opening another topic.

I just realized something strange, my devlogs appear very down below in the new and trending, and that's ok.

But if I filter by tag, I was imagining to see it, at least at the bottom of the whole list, but it's not. How does this work?
https://itch.io/devlogs/tech-discussion

Sorry for bothering, but I care about visibility.

Anyhow, thanks for the great platform you guys are providing!

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