A platform that allows "everything, unless it's illegal or straight up trolling" is ridiculous. Please keep your malicious, derogatory, discriminatory, bullying, harassing, demeaning content off
@itchio
. Our ban buttons are ready.
@will_jobst
@smolghost
We are legally required to force you to get your money off of your account within in a certain time period. We are not a bank. There are different regulations if we were to act as a bank. cont.
There are now 1,000 items in the Bundle for Racial Justice and Equality
You can also now search for games by title on your purchase receipt page. More updates coming soon.
T*tris copyright holder submitted vague DMCA notice to take down a game on
@itchio
. We asked them to explicitly list the infringing content of the page to process the notice and they sent the following.
What are some other games you can think of that satisfy these requirements?
Because a few people have asked: The
@itchio
app should run perfectly fine on a stock Steam Deck, no OS changes needed. I actually develop on Arch Linux system so I can confirm the app works well and is easy to install :)
$234,000 raised in about 6 hours! 😱 I've bumped the goal to $500k. Thank you so much to those who bought the bundle and the those who donated their projects.
BTW, 185 new projects have already been submitted and will be added tomorrow!
@will_jobst
@smolghost
This clause is necessary to ensure that we aren't responsible for holding on to unclaimed property indefinitely, as there are laws about that as well. cont.
We soft launched a job board on
@itchio
. It's a place for companies/teams/studios to post paid positions to reach our developer community
We're giving out free posts, if you know any games people that are looking to hire please tell us (or them)
#gamedev
@will_jobst
@smolghost
That being said, we have never actually executed this clause on any account yet. We're happy to be flexible with sellers, but the clause is there because
@itchio
is not a bank. Don't leave your money there.
@will_jobst
@smolghost
@itchio
And, I'll add this: We are so uninterested in enacting this clause this that this functionality isn't even implemented in our code. We would rather give you a reasonable extension and help you get your earnings. The clause is there to prevent us from being ruled a bank.
Look at this scummy DMCA notice I just got from google delisting an entire browse section on itchio from
@class101us
From what I can tell, no specific assets are reproduced, only the phrase "indie-game-developer"
Here is the "URL of copyrighted work":
For those that are curious: When you buy the bundle, 740+ games will not flood your library. You can pick what items you want from your purchase receipt page to be put in your library at any time.
I know it can be frustrating having your library flooded, so I hope this helps!
We reached out to our community and an unprecedented number of creators donated over 740 projects to be part of what we believe is the largest bundle ever.
The Bundle for Racial Justice and Equality is now available
#BlackLivesMatter
A quick summary:
* don't post hateful speech on
* be expressive with your games, if you're concerned about what it covers contact us
* we don't delete things on a whim, or because people tell us to
* our policy has been the same for 4 years
@will_jobst
@smolghost
@itchio
Also a few people have mentioned about being notified: If we ever have to execute this clause on your account you will be notified in advance. We can be very flexible.
Wow, in just over half a day we've gotten past $500k! I've raised the goal to 1 million dollars 😱
I'm a little tired right now, but we'll be working on getting new games & projects that have been submitted added for everyone later today
Get the bundle:
warning to any devs using the phrase "choose your own adventure" to describe their games, Chooseco is issuing takedown notices to
@itchio
for trademark infringement. Example game page they went after:
How to sell one off games or things on
@itchio
* Go to your Project edit page
* Go to Rewards tab (Located in the More dropdown menu)
* Click 'New Reward', Set 'Total quantity' to 1, Set a price
* Ensure 'New purchases & downloads require a reward' is checked
Click save!
I'm putting together a guide for devs on reducing the size of their builds. I have tips like preferring lossy file formats, enabling compression, paying attention to size of asset store assets.
I'm not too familiar with 3d pipelines, what are other topics can I cover?
I can't believe Epic's lawyers didn't invite me to the trial yesterday, for I have decisive evidence...
THE ITCH APP IS A BROWSER... NO DIFFERENT THAN SAFARI
This thread ended in me coding the ability sell access to browser games. It's not public yet, but if you want to use tell me and I can enable on your game!
It's sad that most of the people in that thread are worried about asset flips. What about the fact that valve is effectively authorizing toxic people to exist on their platform? It's so out of touch
I'm going to change
@itchio
's minimum purchase price from 50 cents to 1 dollar. Here's why:
50 cent purchase nets the creator ~18 cents after payment processor fee is applied
1 dollar purchase nets ~77 cents (not great, but significantly better)
I still recommend pricing > $1
A bunch of people have been asking me: When are new games coming to the bundle?
1. today is my birthday and it was just the weekend give me a break 😅
2. I need to make infrastructure changes for how keys are generated, it will take too long to backfill DB using current setup
A notice if you aren't aware: If anyone ever sends you a zip file for a game with a password, it's likely malware. Scammers encrypt their zip files with passwords so file hosts can't run malware scans on the contents.
If possible, reports the hosting page if possible
@UselRay1500
@will_jobst
@smolghost
@itchio
We don't do automatic payouts because it's actually a component of our fraud prevention model. We're definitely open to changing our process in the future, but for now this is how it works.
In
@itchio
's founding document I talked about letting creators fully control the content of their project pages, no platform-level noise.
Unfortunately, this type of design can enable bad actors to exploit others with misleading pages
Really proud of the devs on
@itchio
right now. Many are hosting 100% off sales for their games right now: 135,429 games have been claimed. (This doesn't count people who straight up changed their project's price to $0)
If you're ever feeling burnt out writing legitimate replies to willfully ignorant people who are trying to push a exploitative technology feel free to just drop a link to this tweet:
@UselRay1500
@will_jobst
@smolghost
@itchio
One of the clause's main goals is to prevent us from being responsible for unclaimed or abandoned earnings. If someone is actively communicating with us, and is able to receive funds, then we'll extend the deadline or do what we can to ensure they can collect.
@eevee
Particularly painful reading tweets where they tried to shame us for a 10% revenue share without actually reading more than 4 words on our site to understand that we invented user-set 0% to 100% revenue share model (aka Open Revenue Sharing).
If you buy more games on then you encourage developers to share their success stories, which gets even more of your favorite devs on the platform.
Consider it next time you go to buy something. Take a peek on
@itchio
, and it might already be there
Speaking of AI generated trash ruining the internet, this scammer AI generated all the assets & content of a product page in the style of "Dead By Daylight", including generated screenshots, in an attempt to distribute malware
Just like last year, I'll be featuring another "Not seen at GDC" collection on the
@itchio
. GDC isn't everything. If you're not going to GDC tell us about your work and I'll feature you on the homepage!
Devs now have access to a report tool for ratings & reviews on their
@itchio
dashboard. I know our ratings & reviews system needs an overhaul, but in the meantime this will give you a way to tell us about those who are abusing the current system.
Here's the moral of the story:
Some Unity library is injecting a script tag into your game's HTML5 export page that looks legit but actually has layers of obfuscated code to let third-party inject any code they want into your game's page when it launches.
Got a report of a dev seeing phishing/malware "Update Chrome" showing in place of their HTML5 game. Took a closer look and found some suspicious obfuscated JS code in their game. Anyone want to take a crack at it?
Despite what reddit is doing, pushing a community to discord as a replacement for reddit is a terrible idea.
If anyone is actually looking for a new message board host I'd be happy to point you in the right direction get a forum setup on a subdomain on
@itchio
For many years when people asked me what itchio is I would succinctly say "Oh it's Bandcamp for indie games."
And then I would spend 5 minutes telling them what Bandcamp is
In celebration of
#loveindies
I've added a new page to your
@itchio
library to help you see games you've downloaded but haven't rated & reviewed yet:
It includes a filter to see which games are in most need of some ratings, and a remind me later button
514 projects from 341 creators have been submitted so far. This will be the largest bundle I've ever seen!
We're still taking submissions, please consider adding your game.
Game developers: We're hosting a bundle where anyone can participate. Proceeds from your games will be donated directly to the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund and the Community Bail Fund.
Join us:
#BlackLivesMatter
In 5 years...
108,557 project pages have been published
275,135 collections created with 1,515,314 things added
25 TB of files uploaded
56,866,983 downloads served
100% bootstrapped
not bad, looking forward to the next 5
Comments on
@itchio
project pages have gotten an upgrade: I deployed new version that allows for inline replies, edits, deletes and more. No more awkwardness when leaving a comment on a browser game.
Don't like the text editor on
@itchio
? You can now opt into a markdown editor. Currently available on community posts & devlogs, more places coming soon.
Click "Prefer Markdown input where available" on your account settings to start using it
I played and recorded all 50
@sokpopco
games and compiled them into a single video you can watch on your lunch break
➡️ watch:
(Real video not this fast, click the link!)
The rebuilt profile theme editor is now live on
@itchio
. Functionally it's mostly the same (added some font options), but it's easier to update so now I'm taking feature requests in this thread.
We will be closing new submissions for the purchasable part of the bundle today, in about an hour (12:00 PT)
Thank you everyone who has participated. You can still post to the topic and we'll feature you in our supporters collection. (which will be setup today as well)
Thank you to everyone who contributed, we'll be going through more submissions soon, along with getting the supporters collection up.
You can still submit here:
I've been running video banners on the top of the
@itchio
homepage for the past month. This week we have FlowScape
A top-selling game where you can paint fantasy landscapes. It was recently updated too. Check it out 👍
A few more
@itchio
profile theme editor updates from the feedback I received
• You can now display your collections in a grid
• Things you have created in collections will show full metadata (instead of just author)
• Border radius!
• Toggle showing projects you've supported
For
#gmtkjam
this year I worked on something new for
@itchio
to make public voting more fair and help stop cheaters: The rating queue
Participants who publicly vote need to either rate or report a queue of randomly selected games before they are free to rate anything.
Introducing
@itchio
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@itchio
I know for many of you your game isn't going to sell as many units on
@itchio
compared to Steam. But, if you ever want that to change then you need to treat
@itchio
like a serious alternative.
So please, match your sales, upload your latest builds, post your updates.
@ThatRichard_
@itchio
Honestly, I have a hunch that Epic is going to use this in their lawsuit against Apple to demonstrate how open of a platform they are. Unlike mobile platforms, they aren't demanding any cut of payments we do on our own platform despite being available there.
Imagine being gamer tricked into wanting DRM in your games by a bunch of con-artists obsessed with becoming obscenely wealthy from the modern equivalent of the beanie baby bubble
once again i am begging NFT people to learn literally anything about the indie web economy before lecturing us on how you're gonna replace it. seeing you come out against itch like it's a megacorp is so embarrassing and tells me you hadn't even heard of it before today
Joining
#loveindies
on
@itchio
is very easy: we've created a page that shows you everything you've interacted with but haven't rated/reviewed yet:
Rate, review, and recommend!
I cleaned up the HTML5 game engine detection script with yesterday's update to how single file .html files are loaded. Here's the distribution of all the detected HTML5 game engines on
@itchio
#indiedev
I planned to launch the bundle this morning, but there are so many projects involved that I believe that the number of people purchasing will cause enough load to take down the site.
I'm quickly working on the performance modifications, will keep you updated.
Game developers: We're hosting a bundle where anyone can participate. Proceeds from your games will be donated directly to the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund and the Community Bail Fund.
Join us:
#BlackLivesMatter
@mrmatthew
@will_jobst
@smolghost
@itchio
A few things:
* If any account is to be affected they will receive upfront notification
* We have never enacted this clause, happy to extend the deadline reasonably
* Our sellers terms displayed upfront when you enable payments, and with easy to read summaries for each section
@mrmatthew
@will_jobst
@smolghost
@itchio
I know a lot of people have implicit distrust for corporations for doing shady terms of services, so they're quick to the guillotine. We recognized that. We made a conscious effort about how our terms are presented and written for that reason. Cont.