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In the demo, the sound is the same ‘ta-tah!’ all the way through. The video is more a sound effect repeating for a long time than a song. I didn’t know there was anything else until I turned the volume all tbe way up and listened carefully. Was there a mistake in the YouTube upload?

I’d be happy for a better way to communicate than the awkward contortions needed now (with my first game team talking across four sitesnot counting the file transfer service).

But….

Managed via Supabase (authentication and database) and Discord OAuth (connection). We receive from Discord: identifier, user name, avatar, and optionally your email.

What about when we don’t have and don’t want a Discord account?

Seems to me this could be set up on Matrix OAuth 2.0/OpenID Connect or something like that.

As-is, jam organizers give up moderation control over their Discord servers to someone they don’t know. Regular accounts get tied to a new app. I can imagine that’s less tempting than to stick with the familiar. (Not that I know for sure. I gave up on Discord a long while back.)

Sophie looks too young for my tastes.

The setting is too plain and generic.

The screenshots have good variety.

You might want to post photos or a tagline so Community goers know what to expect before clicking through.

I have an idea of what a “Tumblr sexyman” is only because younger people brought up The Once-ler in a social media conversation about censorship. I’m… no less confused after passing the F.F.A.R.T.

I was questioning if “modern tools” meant that. Thanks for the warning.

Personally, I feel it’s overly generous to allow most of the modern types of AI in games, books, and assets. “Assisted” is a euphemism. The wording doesn’t need to be that soft. I wouldn’t have been anywhere near as accommodating to the slop on the site -or- to excuses about world-destroying chatbots if it were my decision.

There are too few spaces left that put up any type of resistance to the destruction and corruption happening.

But anyhow, it’s not my decision, Leafo is making an effort at nuance, and the OP is only trying to communicate clearly and accurately.

My thought is that if people are wondering how a game here was made, they’ll read the project description first. Just make a note in the description. Devlogs help with longer descriptions about the development process.

This site doesn’t have the same culture as Steam, where the focus is on popularity and profit.

Itch.io users read casual devlogs.

And back to my first point, there is more detail in the dashboard disclosure than the yes / no question, and the detail is available to players who want to dig for it.

Click the box, then there’s a dropdown section for specifity.

What kind of AI generated content is used? Classification of AI-Generated content is mandatory. Your classification will be used to add additional filtering tags to your project.

Graphics

Sounds

Text & Dialog

Code

The new line in the “More information” section on project pages shows the detail.

Per the official guidelines I remembered reading from wherever it’s buried on the site, publishers are supposed to note how this type of AI was used.

The ToS is an agreement between the site user and itch.io and does not extend off-site to other users.

Devs who join a bundle to collect buyer contact info are being sleazy.

Thanks!

I can think of uses for this.

But what’s a “DENO”? I’m not sure if that’s a type of personal phrasing.

I’d also need a clear privacy policy and some type of positive reputation of the developer before allowing access to a phone’s camera hardware. There’s too much potential for abuse.

I’ve been enjoying the new field on project pages the past few days. I open the details box on nearly every page I visit— would be nice if we could select to have that open by default, by the way— and the link on no-ai projects is appreciated. That link is reassuring, because it means more to me than the AI-generated links do.

Without the no-ai link, old pages where the box wasn’t selected would be indistinguishable from projects where the No button was selected. We’d have to guess by the date of the last update. I don’t know or remember when the box was added for developers. Then there also wouldn’t be an easy link to see more no-ai projects.

It would feel like AI-using projects would be promoted— favored by itch.io— when developer- or team-made-only projects aren’t.

The AI stuff is supposed to be noted in the project descriptions, anyway. It often isn’t. When it’s there, the link under details is redundant to me. When there’s no mention in the description, I’m looking for the no-ai tag in details.

A definite no from me then.

No one who’s paid any attention the past few years trusts bitcoin.

The terms of a contract don’t really matter if there’s not trust between the two parties.

But I’m curious. What’s “an open source smart” contract? That’s looks like a phrase a machine spit out.

Thank you. I’ll consider starting a troubleshooting topic.

I asked around elsewhere (to clarify: it’s new to me) and was told Butler wasn’t working. That was why I was surprised it is.

At this point, I’d like a thorough breakdown of how Butler is supposed to work, like what it’s meant to do and how the devices communicate. Is it the same as it was two years ago?

Asking what each error means doesn’t sound worthwhile, because I don’t have trust in the process at this point.

Forty percent (13/30) plays per view is a pretty good response.

When first putting out games, I think it helps to know that the percentage of page visitors who play the game drops when the view count spikes.

Most visitors seem to click out of curiosity and move after reading descriptions.

I’ve been around too long to put any trust a gaming site that isn’t gamer-owned and -moderated. The same goes for other crafts sites. That was one of the factors that weighed into my joining itch.io. Leafo makes games that are on this site.

This didn’t format correctly when posting. But I guess if someone tolerates what comes out of AI, then should be acceptable. At least it doesn’t share stolen words or pictures of people’s kids.

Environmental concerns. Examples: • https://wisconsinwatch.org/2026/03/wisconsin-data-center-water-olympic-swimming-pools-microsoft-mount-pleasant-racine/ • https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/ai-data-center-emissions-environment-b2887454.html • https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/04/pfas-pollution-data-centers-ai • https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/04/ai-data-centers-energy-demands/686064/ (if you have a public library, it might have a subscription you can use)

Economic concerns (& anger) — https://www.npr.org/2025/11/23/nx-s1-5615410/ai-bubble-nvidia-openai-revenue-bust-data-centers — https://fortune.com/2026/03/19/ai-memory-chip-shortage-hbm-economy/

Job frustrations (mass layoffs, management forcing slopware on employees, corrupted data, hardware failures from the AI acting as malware, growing communication gaps). Political alarm (the AI industry is bolstering the rise in fascism by interfering in democratic processes and civil rights). Ethics. Fatigue with the slop. Personal costs to deal with DDoS attacks and accidental code that affects hardware. Distrust and anger from unauthorized scraping for training datasets.

Off-topic: vibe coding brings to my mind a programmer or web designer in the zone while typing away at code. That’s a near opposite of what an LLM-style prompter does. There’s no “vibe” in machine output.

Shifting to the topic: It’s sad that the parameters were regurgitated from somewhere (a gaming subreddit, StackOverflow, a blog, or private notes) and not your from your preferences based on experience. I would like to know who made the originak list(s). Because me and that person or group have shared interests.

Anyhow! You could use those parameters if you’re interested in the challenge of them. It wouldn’t make sense for anyone to pay a new site full of beginner projects, especially with the oligarchical tech corporations squeezing indie creators.

But learning new things is good.

None of us know what will be useful years from now. Whatever you know can be applied. It’s like how knowing how to do math in your head means simply doing math mentally, not bothering to look around for a calculator and note space every time.

To get started in actually learning to code, I recommend choosing a language that’s associated with small project files, like HTML/CSS or Visual Basic.

Then choice one of the developer training sites (for the beginner’s lessons) and a beginner-level guidebook for that language. Follow the instructions.

Pixel art is tiny in size and enduringly popular for arcade-style games. You can find art, artists, or drawing programs for game art. Otherwise, you’ll need to compress large image files, removing unneeded colors and other data.

Images and audio take up the bulk of project sizes. For music—

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiptune

Just… yeah, do the work.

If you want to pay devs to make games, that would be good, too.

Yes.

I don’t know how to answer the question in the title, but for knowing about interest— Creator Dashboard > Analytics shows where your page visitors came from (when referral tracking is allowed) and that area shows if any have played, downloaded, or added your game to a collection.

Wait a little longer. It’s been less than two weeks? My first games took months to index. Sometimes, the wait is painful.

Keep improving. My guess is that your projects are kept out of search results because they look like rough drafts of generic copies on a duplicate account, but a random guess doesn’t mean much.

Ask Itch.io’s team by email.

Just a status update: I’m working in more images and sounds, tweaking the interface, and still working on the script. I’m aiming for a 1 PM upload and jam submission to make sure there’s time to troubleshoot. I don’t have many options if internet service goes out.

Noted!

Thanks. The link is good for my notes.

I’m already thinking about using the study for a different project, because I need a desk and books in everywhere possible.

By the way, are you okay with me modifying your images? Any limitations on that?

Nice! Your school is so fancy, it’s like you attended Ouran High. 😊

I’m going to pass a set on to a fan artist who makes games. For the rest: May these be used in projects that accept money?

Additional suggestion: Remove the promotion of X (“Twitter”) or explain the link.

It’s hard to believe the theme is sincere when the jam page is explicitly directing people to a site owned by billionaires for pushing oligarchical propaganda (protected by expensive surveillance systems that get protestors imprisoned or killed).

I’m not sure how I missed that section when searching, but that’s exactly what I was looking for! Thank you!

Not only alternate text for screen readers— how can a tooltip-style description be added to a graphical button (or any other image) in Ren’Py so the text shows, for example, on hover or slow press?

I’m surprised it worked yesterday. I thought Butler wasn’t working anymore.

Hopefully, some know why it’s failing so often.

The two at the bottom (name label and textbox) are working out better than the first example is.

The problem could be with my internet connection. I’ve tried twice with downloads on different days. Maybe it will be different when I can try a different network.

This topic came up in an unrelated search, but it’s interesting.

My thoughts… the Trump budget director who’s in the part of the Epstein Files appearing to be from the FBI investigation into the huge trafficking ring’s foreign interference in US politics (from the time Vought withheld US Congressional aid to Ukraine in our official ally’s defense against Russian invasion) and who was a co-writer in the Republican party’s (culture war) Project 2025 is thought to be a source of the current wave of censorship?

A long English-language sentence that references US politics in a slightly angry tone can be difficult to parse. Let me rephrase. What I mean is that Russell Vought is one of the guys who made headlines about scandalous behavior in Donald Trump’s first terms of political office. He contributed to a political plan to take away civil rights of UA citizens. Project 2025 is relevant to the restrictions through US-based payment processors that censor low-profile creatives. The same political figures bolstering huge scams that involve sex crimes and horrific violence of historic scale. But I hadn’t thought before about this particular name’s possible connection to what’s happened on itch.io and other project host sites.

I guess it’s good to remember there’s more to the events like the mass shadowbanning on itch.io or the censoring legislation happening around the world than what any one of us will know about.

For me: neutral. If the combat system works and the action makes sense with the story, then it can be fun.

(I avoid depictions of cigarette smokers, tho.)

Hi! I mean the show up as existing in the folders with a file size, but they can’t be opened. There are no previews. When I try to run a test project that doesn’t remove these images, then the launcher or browser crashes. That’s making finding which image is what and where for edits very difficult. I’m new to Ren’Py and not sure what’s happening.

Would we also credit you for the images used in a GUI?

What I’ve been able to pick out looks nice, but the directory contains many broken images. For example: game/gui/overlay/pref_overlay_hover.png referenced in screens.rpy.

Going to add: Microsoft (aka Microslop) owns Github. Repositories really do need to be moved off it. Other git sites exist.

I had GDevelop on my list of engines to try but haven’t gotten to it. Now I won’t, because I have no patience for slopware promotion. In my experience, developers who put that in also put in spyware to train off users’ projects in secret for “research and development purposes”. My trust burned out from situations like this.

For interactive fiction, I’ve been using Ren’Py, based on Python. There’s been discussion this week about whether or not chatbot-generated code is slipping in, corrupting the language repositories, but that’s invisible when opening the default interfaces and templates for Ren’Py.