Also, take a look at the meaning of the word ‘wishlist’. It mostly refers to adding unreleased games to a list, like on Steam. But itch.io doesn’t have this feature, and how would a collection help me if my games aren’t even indexed on itch.io?
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I have troubles understanding you.
It mostly refers to adding unreleased games to a list
That's not what a wishlist is.
A wishlist is a list you put things on that you wish to buy later or keep watch on, like getting informed when it is on sale. It has nothing to do with the availability of items. Itch collections are wishlists. You can even configure your settings for Itch to send you a mail, if something goes on sale on a collection.
What you might mean is how developers urge their fans to "wishlist" their unpublished games, so Steam will agree to publish them as early access if enough people did this. This concept does not apply on Itch at all. You publish if you press the publish button. There is no barrier, no early access phase, no official release date. After you press the publish button on Itch, your project is available by direct link for download and for buying, if you sell it.
Having the game indexed or not has no bearing on this. If your project is not indexed yet or was indexed and suddenly is not, read the link I posted above.
Now, since you can wishlist unpublished games on Steam, it kinda makes sense to wishlist something that is unpublished, since you also will get info when it is finally released. On Itch, if you want to get notification for a not published thing, you need to follow the developer with the follow button. An already published project you could just put on a collection. But there is no event, when the developer turns the status from prototype to in development to released. Unless you follow the developer and that developer makes a blog post about it.
For indexing, developer's pages cannot be found through Itch search at all. This was changed some time ago, it previously was possible. Now you will only find indexed games by a developer if you search a developer.
Oh, and your two projects have no files. Itch is not designed to host empty projects. Make blog post, if you want to do that. Not a project page. Empty project pages will probably not be indexed. Itch is designed for hosting files and it does not require the project to be finished, but you should have something to show. https://itch.io/docs/creators/quality-guidelines#avoid-publishing-your-page-befo...
This includes having all images, files, and classifications added as needed.