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You may continue to amuse yourself by babbling.

It does no one any good.

Garbage all

It is indeed obvious that you like to argue.

I was not suggesting that some content causes people to wallow in it, I was saying that something that is relatively harmless becomes bad when it is indulged in too much. Certainly some genres appeal to people who like to wallow in negativity, but that is beside the point.

You continue to use other less extreme content in an attempt to justify this filth. Your intention might be to be contrarian, but the effect certainly is a ham-fisted justification. I need provide no further description of the slippery slope, as you continue to do that quite well without realising it.

Using less extreme negative content to justify extreme content pretty well illustrates how these things build on each other.

As with many things it is a question of degree. There is nothing too bad about the horror genre in itself, but when people wallow in this kind of content, there is no doubt that it is damaging.

The line is anything but arbitrary. In fact in the case of itch, I would say it is drawn far distant of what is damaging to society.

Just because one thing is okay, it does not mean every single thing on the same spectrum, no matter where it occurs, should also be acceptable.

If itch.io has finally decided to draw the line somewhere on this kind of content, then I see that as a good thing.

Polygons are not people, but you should seriously consider what you put out into the world, because everything you put out leads to more of the same and serves as a step for an expansion of same.

These are negative fantasies, and people should be guided not into indulging in them, but towards overcoming them.

I got a spot open right now, contact me 

https://cm-works.online

I am at the end of a project and so once again available for contract work.

Ah, thank you.

How is the loading graphic or screen for an HTML / Javascript game defined on Itch?

By that, I mean the screen or animation that shows before you click "Run game".

Very cool. I especially like the 13MB filesize.

Thank you for the free copy of your game.

I will leave a comment after I have played some.

Guys, guys. I appreciate the enthusiasm, but this is for paid work.

Please don't contact me if you don't have any money. Especially don't contact me if you don't have any money and no game idea. :D

Check the second post in this thread.

One thing I forgot to say, at 10% default earnings on every sale, even with a non-optimised earnings model, I would guess that itch is probably raking in the dough.

That said, it seems a standard for every second half-finished and broken game to be ~700MB, so yeah, on consideration I share in your wonder.

It is the opposite, listing or searching games and excluding more than one specific tag from the listing. There is a hidden feature to exclude one tag this way, but not multiple.

Nice effects and art.

A volume control would be nice.

Cool :D

Very carefully. ;)

From a technical standpoint itch.io seems crazy good

This is true. I know I like to complain about the lack of multiple filters, but itch is exceptionally good, from a technical standpoint. If you look at pretty much any other site, it is drowning in javascript bloat, but itch has none of that garbage slowing it down. It's simple, it's fast. As a programmer, this is how I like to do things. Efficiency is everything.

It does seem that the site needs more staff. But as a business owner myself (really small, in my case) I think I can guess the reasons for that.

(seriously though, multiple tag exclusion would be great :D)

Alternative contact address:

support
at
cm-works.online

For contact, please use the address provided on my website: https://cm-works.co.za

For examples, please see my published games on this platform. StoneChess for example is a multiplayer game built in a custom engine.

It seems you have no shortage of submissions, but I have added my game StoneChess.

I am a programmer with more than 16 years of programming experience, and my passion has been game development. My core principle is efficiency. I like to write the most efficient code possible, and make no attempts to obfuscate what is happening. There are very few bugs in my work, and fixing bugs and maintaining very large legacy projects are my speciality.

As far as popular game engines go, my experience has mostly been with Godot, but learning other engines is not a challenge. For my own projects I have often opted to write bespoke game engines, just to make sure that nothing is wasted.

As someone living in South Africa, I can offer very competitive rates.

Oh, I get it. I cannot bring myself to add Steam's little headcrab to my game. I do think it will fare a whole lot better there though.

Having it in html5 build also helps a lot as many people ( at least me personally ) would be more comfortable with playing a web game than installing a new game from an unknown publisher on my computer, especially here on itch.

This is of critical importance. I think this is what makes the biggest difference between Itch and Steam. People are absolutely terrified of malware, and I think this goes double for the kind of people that play horror games.

Check this community, every now and then there are Youtubers that are looking for games to play. ASWhaler Gamer for instance has a thread up.

Many people use this platform to dump their trash, and the platform does as little as possible to help the users sort through it.

One trick is to use the amount of work that the game creator put into their page to loosely judge the quality of the game.

There are many good and great games on the platform, and there are many more bad games that make the good games difficult to find. This is a common issue on platforms like this. If you dig hard, you will find some gems, eventually.

The trends are created by the game creators, and by the site's management, who feature the kind of games that they like. Game creators also notice what kind of games get featured, and then make more games like that in an effort to get featured. If you don't like these kind of games, I think that the people that run the site don't care about that. A feature to exclude multiple tags from listings is requested quite frequently, and it gets pretty much ignored every time. The closest to an official response you will likely get, is someone that likes to pop into the conversation and attempt to convince you that you don't really want this feature. Most people who don't share the site's ideology have given up, which is more bad behaviour.

There does not appear to be an easy fix to this problem. There is a hidden feature to exclude single tags, but there is more than one prolific tag filled with garbage. At the moment the solutions are limited to spending time digging through the aforementioned garbage, or to find some third party means to fix it, for example: Write a script to fix it, find another platform, or make your own platform. As you can see, there are no good solutions at the moment. I do suggest to those that disagree with the site's ideology not give in to apathy, and make their own opinions heard, even if it is just for the record. The world is in a bad place, and a lot of work and determination is required to fix it. Be part of the solution.

Thank you for that cool video!

I do not understand this.

I get that it is difficult to find good games on many other platforms, but once finding one, why do people not want to buy the game from them? Surely once you have given your details to a platform to buy one game, it becomes very easy to buy another. In my mind it is more convenient to simply download a game and have the installer forever, rather than needing some application always running to do the same thing, and to run the game.

On top of this, there are other games stores more similar to Steam, which don't get any traction.

The devlogs attached to the game make a good way to have a changelog on itch. I think not many people read them.

StoneChess

Wow, this looks incredible.

Are you also South African?

Ah, I assumed you wanted to fix something that needed fixing.

If you are set on implementing a site to post gamedev classifieds, you'll be stuck trying to get users from the sites you mentioned, which already have this feature.

These other platforms you mention don't really want to see self-promotion, often times it is regarded as spam. All of them are also working very hard to make it so that you have to pay them to have any visibility at all.

This platform can be seen more as hosting and selling. It makes available some measures of promotion, like dev logs, but these are not very effective to that end. A lot of good games get lost in the traffic here.

Since I feel like the US is in a bad place economically, and there is a lot of tension in the globe, Id say put Trump back in and let him try to fix it his way.

Leaving the fate of a nation up to such a careless choice (elect him and see what happens) is criminally negligent. You can see how the U.S. got to the state it's in with this attitude. He is not even an unknown quantity, he is a proven liar. His foreign policy is to do whatever Israel wants, and that is the worst thing right now.

I have not seen anyone who was upset about a YouTuber doing that, only thankful.