What is Itch.io? A short history of one of the most unrestricted platforms for game developers
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- Опубліковано 15 січ 2023
- What is Itch.io? In this video, we take a closer look at the history of one of the most accessible platforms for game developers and digital producers, starting from the company's humble beginnings in 2013 to the growing pains it experiences today.
Games from itch.io featured in this video:
00:08 - October
00:47 - Code, Eat, Debug
00:55 - X-Moon
01:20 - Voting Simulator
01:26 - Gate
01:31 - Gift Distribution
02:38 - Uploaded
02:49 - Coding Buggies
03:03 - Money Money
03:12 - Fee to Play
03:21 - The New Hire
04:01 - Community Companion
04:12 - Launch
04:18 - Control
04:23 - Definitely No Game Development
04:40 - Refinery Rush
04:48 - Freelancer
04:52 - Overland
05:55 - A Good Snowman is Hard to Build
06:24 - Completion Lawn Care
06:34 - Bowuigi Zine
07:22 - Growing Pains
07:26 - Sorting Radioactive Trash
07:40 - Bots
07:49 - Office
07:57 - Grow Crow
08:35 - X-Moon
#itchio #indiegamedev #indiegame - Ігри
Itch is the modern newgrounds for me.
Like a place i can go to feel something new for once.
No bots, no algorithms
Just vibes
It's the Newergrounds.
newgrounds addictinggames miniclip armorgames kongregate ebaumsworld trackmill, as a kid all i needed were these sites, oh and warcraft 3 lol
the NEWESTgrounds
Itch and Gamejolt are the modern gamejolt
PristineFloor
A problem I see with Itch is the lack of tooling for better searches.
Example: searching for assets in the assets store is done by "tag", and using the search bar will default back to searching games.
Yeah, I agree. I had trouble searching for developers on the app since it always defaults for searching games. I had better luck using Google to find developers on the site.
What a wonderful corner of the internet that is. Like a glimpse of utopia! I'm well familiar with the pay what you want scheme, but I forgot about the revenue slider. When I put my own games on there, I think I'm gonna set it to 31%.
It's such a fun platform that really makes a lot of effort to let devs do what they do best!
Nice
Nice
Nice
@@RaisedWhiteMist Should have waited till March 31st
As the artist of freelancer and on behalf of the team , thank you for this video. It is a great honor to be one of the examples you've chosen to show.
Thanks for being apart of FreeLancer! I really enjoyed the game mechanics (particularly jumping around with the lance) and art style of the game. Keep up the good work!
I wouldn't be half the game developer I am without Itch's open platform. This was a well done origin documentary, you have most assuredly earned a sub.
same
Wow! This is great on so many levels! And the whole story is short and sweet. What a wonderful little documentary. Good luck!
Also i thought this was a channel with 600K+ subscribers. With that video quality you'll get it soon :)
I'm glad you enjoyed the video! And thank you for the compliments!
i actually started using it a bit when they had a great bundle for ukraine 10 bucks you got a bunch of games, apps even d&d stuff
It's friendly to adult content as well. Places for adult creators are shrinking every year an it's so nice to have a safe haven like itch.
Yeah you have a point. Game jolt use to be friendly to adult games into last year or the year before. They decide that they won't host adult games anymore.
This is so professional I thought that this must be a massive channel. I hope you find the success you deserve.
Wasn't aware of the founders background. He seems like a really cool dude.
2:29 I made the most rated game on a GMTK gamejam once! Still one of my proudest achievements, even though it wasn't the highest rated.
What a nice documentary. Good job!
Thank you for watching! I'm glad you liked the video 😎
While watching, I noticed that he says "Itch tries not to be like other platforms" but in the subtitles, it adds "especially Steam" at 5:41 lol
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Its nice to see people like this helping out and being community-friendly. We need more people like these guys.
This was a very well done video man, keep going with this quality and your channel will grow fast. (:
Brilliant mini-documentary- I assumed you had 100k+ subs but when I went to subscribe I saw you didn’t and was very surprised! Keep up the great work 👍
Way to go man, this was very well made video and was very interesting
Thank you so much! Very much appreciate the kind words!
Got your Channel recommended, I'm really glad it did! After finishing the video i looked at your channel and I legit thought that u had so many subscribers ! Your production quality is great and the video was really interesting and fun to watch ! I subbed keep up the great work you will grow big !
I honestly thought you had over a million subscribers, your editing and delivery is on par with the big guys, I'm honestly looking forward to your uploads
Thought this was a way bigger channel, nice video quality keep it up!
Thank you so much!
I never thought the Itch backstory could be interesting, even though I love the platform. Great video! Subbed :)
Nice to see this channel getting the recognition it deserves!
that was a great watch .simple, informative and entertaining .Subbed ofc
I've been on itch for quite some time now, but never really knew about its origins. Great, well researched video; keep it up! (:
That's a cool mini documentary! Good job!
Very nice video! The topic was interesting and also presented well.
Enjoyed your video very much, thank you and keep it up!
6:50 It's Equality, not Equity. Actually an important distinction to make
As an aspiring video creator, I like your balance of B roll (game/web footage) and face/real shots. I’ve been trying to strike a good balance and I think you nail it!
...I'm really surprised at how many people don't know about Itch
Itch is where I get 90% of the games I play. And they are all free because I mostly play Visual Novels
this video was great! that was lot of research
great video! never knew all this about the platform
Thanks for watching! Glad you enjoyed it!
Great content 👍 subscribed!! Also love you’re hairstyle bro 😅
They are legends! I've uploaded my game there and didn't encounter any problems or gate keeping or stupid algorithms obscuring my game in favor of others. I really wish that itch would be our main store and not steam or others.
Good job on this documentary!
thanks for the info!
I started hearing about itch through some videos a few years ago I'm glad it's a thing that exists theres so many unique games that even have far better quality and hearing that some pages have custom designs sounds amazing
Wow I didn’t even know that this existed.
Isn't it great? It reminds me of early internet flash games.
How
Love itch! Great video, hope to see your channel take off
Thank you for the kind words!
Nice video! Definitely deserves more views than it has
Loved this. Great for beginners over steam
Amazing video!
Great work never heard the full story before.
Thank you for watching! 😎
DAMN! You're not even at 1k yet? This has to change. Take my sub, good sir!
Great video man, make more!
Finally! i remember looking around if theres a vid about this
Really good video keep up the good work.
I sneaked around the site once in a while, but never did I expect it to be this amazing
Great video!
itch is amazing, it is maybe not perfect, but due to how developer friendly it is, it's the best play for indie game developers
Great video! Love it
Good stuff! Keep it up!:)
Been using it a lot lately, now I’ll be using it more
yo this is so cool im so glad this showed up on my recs
You deserve more subs and views bro
That's a really amazing video.
Interesting and informative 👍
Thank you! 😎
Nice one!
under rated, good content
this is like newgrounds just more modern and with gamejams!
ive been using itch since like 2018
put up a few small games there. and participated in a couple gamejams
ive always considered itch as the best game sharing platform for indie devs
On the other hand, complete freedom also means the lack of quality control...
You can't have everything
Everythings got trade off
that says equality, thats a different word than "equity" which is the word you used
This is a very good video
Good video keep it up
I get a few games from Itchio every month, it's nice to actually own what I buy
One thing I love about itch is how fantastic it is for Tabletop RPG developers! It's not just digital games!
Neat - Ludum Dare always brings down itch - Sumit your games early is not so easy in a jam. - Very good video - thx
I knew itch was awesome but I didn't know quite how awesome they are towards developers
well done. It's a great vid. I enjoyed it.
I'm now a bit curious other websites like indiedb, coolmathgames, poki, crazygames and more
Hell yeah! I instantly thought of Bandcamp from the start of the video, cool to hear that the creator explicitly was trying to bring that openness to the indie gaming industry. Bandcamp has been an indispensible part of the independent musician ecosystem for as long as it has been around, awesome that itch takes it even further with the cut slider.
Bandcamp is owned by epic though
@@polocatfan It was not always
It good stuff to learn how this company think outside the box. But there should be some bad apples of users use assets copy or reused brought content from brought sites that are not license free or permissions to resale example audios.
thank you
subbed, thought was a 200k channel
I think you left a typo in your script; at 6:47 you said, "protests"
Should've been "peaceful protest"
@@captaincommando9839 "Firey but mostly peaceful protest"
Nice vid
SeeIng the video quality i felt you had atleast half a million subs
Whenever I make my games itch would be the first place it would go to before I released it on steam since unlike Steam at least Itch is more consistent on their policies on adult games.
cool video. Never heard of it.
Subbed!
cool video, but why is your microphone facing away from you
Great video, it's underrated. the only thing I could say is you're talking and giving information too quickly, I think it may be overwhelming. Also there's a small echo to your voice, you could speak more directly to the mic or change the room. Good luck with your channel, you're doing an amazing job ❤
Facts bro
GOG is also very good
potential channel
A platform that actually gives a single iota of a fuck about their creators? Based.
Nice channel, always happy when the youtube algorithm notices one of the smaller channels.
Subscribed - let's get you to 1000 subs!
Without itch I would not have become a programmer I started off just making games for fun publishing them and getting feedback I also joined s couple of gamejams where I met a lot of people I still talk to 3 years later if I didnt get feedback and didn't meet those people I would have probably quit a while ago and wouldn't even have attempted the transition from games in unity to software development
Im an Indie developer and would love to collaborate!
commenting cuz i like the video
That's where I put "the psychedelic quest"
Neat
Play Faxdoc and NostalgiaTree's games, specially Treetris, Ecila and Rev
interesting
Itch would be a lot better if they made a better text editor. The current one is quite limited and a little janky.
At less from my experience.
Good video, should look into a better pop filter
I saw "baba files taxes". It must be great.
I like the platform, though be careful, the games on there can be...interesting
What's the game @3 seconds in?
I think the game is called Strange Island, but sadly it is not offered on Itch anymore.
@@vgexplain Awww
Good video I'll sub 0w0