Itch.io – Marketplace for Indie Games
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#2Itch is very cool. Their tools are dev friendly, even the download client got released as open source (https://github.com/itchio).
And on the publishing side, they allow anyone to publish on the site, for free, no hoops to jump through. And if it's a paid app, they charge much less than Steam / iTunes / etc. Too bad they're not as popular with players.
But I'm idly curious why Itch popped up now, since it's been around for years.
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#3Itch is very cool. Their tools are dev friendly, even the download client got released as open source ( https://github.com/itchio ). And on the publishing side, they allow anyone to publish on the site, for free, no hoops to jump through. And if it's a paid app, they charge much less than Steam / iTunes / etc. Too bad they're not as popular with players. But I'm idly curious why Itch popped up now, since it's been ar…
yep my game is on itch. It's a great community. The tools and the developer side of the website are very good.
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#4Itch is very cool. Their tools are dev friendly, even the download client got released as open source ( https://github.com/itchio ). And on the publishing side, they allow anyone to publish on the site, for free, no hoops to jump through. And if it's a paid app, they charge much less than Steam / iTunes / etc. Too bad they're not as popular with players. But I'm idly curious why Itch popped up now, since it's been ar…
I've been following @fasterthanlime on Twitter for a while, and it's always really nice seeing them constantly trying to make itch.io the best it can be or working with people to fix bugs they've hit. As far as I know, it's a just them and leafo running it.
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#5Itch is very cool. Their tools are dev friendly, even the download client got released as open source ( https://github.com/itchio ). And on the publishing side, they allow anyone to publish on the site, for free, no hoops to jump through. And if it's a paid app, they charge much less than Steam / iTunes / etc. Too bad they're not as popular with players. But I'm idly curious why Itch popped up now, since it's been ar…
As a gamer, I haven't really dived into Itch even though I see it recommended all the time. This is despite being a Linux gamer, a fan of indie games, a supporter of open source and a believer in multiple marketplaces (although I feel like we need better aggregators and agnostic sync/update tools).
I think the problem may be that I have absolutely no idea where to start. With Steam I started with games that came with Steam that I wanted anyway (Portal, Left 4 Dead). With Humble I started with Overgrowth and their original bundles. GOG was a great place to get games that I had already played or wanted to play and now is a good place to get DLC free stuff.
So with Itch I think what is missing is a 'killer app'. Not a 'killer feature' (it has plenty of those), but more a draw that will give me enough drive and interest to overcome the initial cognitive energy barrier to entry.
Taking recommendations!
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#6Itch is very cool. Their tools are dev friendly, even the download client got released as open source ( https://github.com/itchio ). And on the publishing side, they allow anyone to publish on the site, for free, no hoops to jump through. And if it's a paid app, they charge much less than Steam / iTunes / etc. Too bad they're not as popular with players. But I'm idly curious why Itch popped up now, since it's been ar…
I've been following @fasterthanlime on Twitter for a while, and it's always really nice seeing them constantly trying to make itch.io the best it can be or working with people to fix bugs they've hit. As far as I know, it's a just them and leafo running it.
@fasterthanlime was in the same uni I was, he basically lead a project for students in first year when he was in second year, a really impressive coder.
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#7This year's 7-day roguelike challenge had all the entrants put their games on itch.io [0]. In the episode of Roguelike Radio [1] that covered the 7drl, they lauded itch for requiring a working download, since entrants are allowed to use any platform at all (some write in c with raw escape codes written to the terminal, some write PICO-8 games, etc), and in years pay the hardest part of judging has been getting some of the games to run at all.
It turns out people who like making roguelikes in a 7 day sprint don't tend to prioritize little things like making sure their work can actually be played.
[0] https://itch.io/jam/7drl-challenge-2018 [1] http://www.roguelikeradio.com/2012/03/episode-26-how-to-make...
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#8They also have the most dev friendly fees I've seen. You're only obligated to pay credit card fees, beyond that is a voluntary percent of sales you can give to Itch (set at 10% by default.
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've been following @fasterthanlime on Twitter for a while, and it's always really nice seeing them constantly trying to make itch.io the best it can be or working with people to fix bugs they've hit. As far as I know, it's a just them and leafo running it.
@fasterthanlime was in the same uni I was, he basically lead a project for students in first year when he was in second year, a really impressive coder.
Itch is a 2 engineer operation. Its incredible.
They could undercut steam by 20% for each sale.
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#10Itch is great. Their search by tags system is broken, but everything else is wonderful.
Full disclosure: I publish on itch. Https://failrate.itch.io