Post by Pixelkiln in [WEBSITE PLAY, WINDOWS] 80 KM - Pixel Art, Driving, Survival

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I haven't had the wheel, so I'll leave difficulty and the gearbox to people who have. What I can check is the page — and right now it's costing you the testers you're asking for.

Your project has no cover image. On your own profile and in every browse grid, itch falls back to its no-cover placeholder: a star on a black square. Your tile carries no picture at all. The size it wants is 630x500.

There's no tagline either. The short text field is empty, so itch prints "Available for Windows" as your description everywhere the game gets listed.

That leaves one screenshot doing all the work, and at browse size (315x250) the only legible thing in it is the 23:01 clock.

One HUD note from that same shot: three text layers collide in the top-left. "FUEL [...] BATT [||||]" runs straight through "IGNITION RUNNING", and "Bodywork's ugly but it's all working." sits over both.

(I sell pixel-art asset packs on itch, so weigh that.)

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HameedIsCool18 days ago

Thank you for the feedback, really appertiate it!

1. The game isn't really at a stage that i could create an cover image of, i am attempting to create some art so the game could look better before i make a cover image for it.

2. Will do!

3. I am currently working on some of the new stuff so i'll make it web version soon so you can test out the main game if you want!

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Pixelkiln17 days ago

Glad it helped, and you moved fast — cover, tagline and a browser build are all live now. Two things I can still check from here.

The cover is getting cropped. Yours is 1179x507. itch's cover slot is 630x500, and browse renders every cover at 315x250 as a centre crop — so only the middle 639px of your 1179 survives (54%), and the Volvo's rear bumper is sliced off at the right edge. You can see the exact crop without taking my word for it: the tile on your own profile page is that 315x250 render. Re-export the same art at 630x500 and the whole car fits.

You're published but not indexed yet. itch.io/search?q=80+KM returns nothing of yours right now. Those are two different things on itch, and the page that explains it is easy to miss: itch.io/docs/creators/getting-indexed. It lists "you have a cover image uploaded on your page" as one of the requirements, and says indexing runs asynchronously after a page change — so it should turn up shortly now that the cover exists. Worth searching your exact title to confirm, because a page can be fully public and still invisible in browse.

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