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I've deliberated on this a bit. I don't think I'm trying to build a traditional storefront. If a developer is building a homepage for their game they aren't goi

by leafo 13y ago

I've deliberated on this a bit. I don't think I'm trying to build a traditional storefront. If a developer is building a homepage for their game they aren't going to stick reviews and sales data on the page unless they are exceptional. So at that point they are just handpicking whatever data that happens to market the game well. I want itch.io to be the place where people make the homepages for their games. Not another storefront page filled with links elsewhere. For that reason I purposefully don't force anything on the game pages. Discovery of games is a separate issue. Up until now 99% of game discovery comes from external source (mainly twitter). The itch.io homepage and browse pages are potentially good places to discover games but the library isn't good enough where people see it as a place to go to find games (yet). If I do start aggregating reviews then you might see it on those pages, but never on the game pages.

nunodonato 13y ago
Discovery of games is not easy. One suggestion, although not very significant to boost game discovery, could offer some interesting pieces of info and regular readers: have a weekly(bi-weekly/monthly) blog article with a kind of template interview with one indie dev that has games published on your site. interesting to other indies, might be interesting to players, and gives some promotion
rplnt 13y ago
> I want itch.io to be the place where people make the homepages for their games. I see, that makes sense then. > If I do start aggregating reviews then you might see it on those pages, but never on the game pages. That is enough for what I was asking about. Perhaps a best-selling titles, etc..
xerophtye 13y ago
>I want itch.io to be the place where people make the homepages for their games. I like your intention, but from the looks of it, these indie game devs are no web designers. These homepages they have come up with... well... aren't exactly a thing of art. Stores on the other hand, kind of have a better visual page for each page. So perhaps you can provide you devs a set of themes to choose from when making the homepage? I know they can just Google those themselves, but they don't seem to be doing that.

by leafo 13y ago

nunodonato 13y ago

Discovery of games is not easy. One suggestion, although not very significant to boost game discovery, could offer some interesting pieces of info and regular readers: have a weekly(bi-weekly/monthly) blog article with a kind of template interview with one indie dev that has games published on your site. interesting to other indies, might be interesting to players, and gives some promotion

rplnt 13y ago

> I want itch.io to be the place where people make the homepages for their games. I see, that makes sense then. > If I do start aggregating reviews then you might see it on those pages, but never on the game pages. That is enough for what I was asking about. Perhaps a best-selling titles, etc..

xerophtye 13y ago

>I want itch.io to be the place where people make the homepages for their games. I like your intention, but from the looks of it, these indie game devs are no web designers. These homepages they have come up with... well... aren't exactly a thing of art. Stores on the other hand, kind of have a better visual page for each page. So perhaps you can provide you devs a set of themes to choose from when making the homepage? I know they can just Google those themselves, but they don't seem to be doing that.