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So i had something i wanted to share.

I was talking with someone in this thread https://itch.io/t/5972097/itchio-for-console and wanted to create my own thread to expand on one specific idea and give it its own spotlight, because I think it’s a really good one.

Getting an official itch.io app on modern consoles would be huge, and with Steam making all their games accessible to the console market by making their own video game console i figure it's the perfect time.

Unfortunately this will have to be a decision itch.io staff make themselves. While the itch.io desktop client is open source (the GitHub repo is the Electron based app, plus the separate open source butler daemon, both under MIT license), the core infrastructure is not. That includes the closed source backend services: primary API servers, OAuth authentication endpoints, payment processing, CDN distribution, game metadata database, and any store integration layers.

More importantly, authorizing and certifying the app for official distribution on modern consoles (PlayStation, Xbox, Switch, etc.) requires formal publisher agreements, NDAs, SDK licensing, and certification processes that can only be initiated by itch.io as a legal entity. Individual GitHub contributors cannot enter those contracts or obtain the required signing keys and entitlements, that’s strictly a platform holder relationship the itch.io team would have to handle themselves. So I’m posting this here in case itch.io would like to go ahead with the idea.

Fortunately, the actual implementation isn't too hard and the itch.io team would not need to port any games themselves. After securing the necessary publisher agreements and certifications, the main work would be adapting the client to each console’s ecosystem, specifically controller input mapping, gamepad UI navigation, and other platform specific optimizations. This is the standard process that other major apps such as Discord, Netflix, Arc, and Firefox have already successfully completed.

What do you all think? Does an Itch.io app on consoles sound like a good idea for you as a player or dev? Any other angles or ideas you want to bring up?

Shout out to Geronimokuwait for sparking the thought! ^_^

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Fun game. Good automation. Needs more upgrades, a black background for the upgrades screen and the ability for automation to use the super laser.

Can't say i like this version. The time limit is annoying and there are no automation upgrades.

I know. But it's been like two weeks since you did that so I'm seeing if one of the users will help by posting on Itch.io's github.

So i recently decided to download Itch.io's desktop client (because i just found out they had one) and i ran into a error after installation. I sent an email to them on the 16th, well past 1-2 days, and haven't gotten a response from them. I then posted here in the forums hoping someone here could contact Itch.io staff on my behalf but it appears that's not possible or effective. I was told that people have found luck contacting them on their Github but i cannot log into my Github account due to a security vulnerability in Github's system. If there is someone with a working Github account and posting privileges, i ask that you post on their Github https://github.com/itchio/itch with my Ticket ID (337470). I would greatly appreciate any help in this matter.

To make it clear, I am NOT asking for how long it takes for them to respond as to comply with forums rules.

Unfortunately, i can't use github right now (security problem). Also, the app literally says it sends a report here so why wouldn't they address it? Either way i have no choice but to get help here or through the email system as that is what i have access to.

I still haven't gotten a response.

Thank you ^_^

P.S. Sorry about before. Didn't see the drop down.

So i recently decided to download Itch.io's desktop client (because i just found out they had one) and i ran into a error after installation. I sent an email to them on the 16th, well past 1-2 days, and haven't gotten a response from them.

To make it clear, I am NOT asking for how long it takes for them to respond as to comply with forums rules.

A: Not my rant. It's arock's rant. Read the first paragraph to the end.

B: I never said use Epic. I think Epic is just as bad as Steam. I prefer Itch/Gamejolt/GoG, or Xbox/PlayStation if it's an option.

This is why reading comprehension is important, but thanks for the downvote anyway. I'll be sure to return the favor.

Holy FUCK, the name of that "mode" XD
Excuse me while i pick up my sides, lol.

I know f95zone works that way but i don't think Itch does. Definitely weird regardless. Do you think Futa might have been in the desk/tags at one point but was removed?

Futanari, Hermaphrodite, and dickgirls are all the same thing, so I'm just going to refer to them as futa. They can have any combination of genitalia just so long as they aren't 100% male or 100% female. This includes simply having male genitalia and breasts. Femboys are 100% males and nothing else. The only thing that separates them from normal men is their small and effeminate bodies. Traps are femboys who intentionally dress like women and pretend to be them. The individuals in the game have both male genitalia and breasts, that makes them futa.

Wow, you're right. I actually didn't notice it, but they have breasts.

yeah this game shows up on a Futanari search but I don't see anything like that in the game

Wow, you don't see classic mimics to much anymore. And in a porn game no less. Here's hoping we get some fun tentacle/tongue action ^_^

Ah, yeah. The payment processor delisting issue. I'm not so sure Itch.io is being as "coerced" into this censorship as they claim. I've been seeing a lot of stuff happening on the site that kinda leans into pro-censorship/woketivist actions lately: liberal leaning bans, some creators getting preferential treatment and Itch.io support giving SOME people help with their issues and relisting them while other users get completely ignored.

I am. But that's because I'm a lurker and i regularly investigate people i follow for new content (Itch.io's notifications kinda suck). I never heard about you "moving" accounts. I just figured one account was for your main games and the other was for side content or something.

This is . . . the first I've heard of this.

Yeah, you are a nutjob. Listen to yourself. You spout misinformation and political propaganda while also trying to strawman me, like every woketivist. You want to believe this misinformation despite it always being disproven by actual facts because it makes you feel good cause "your fighting the good fight" and "your apart of something bigger" and "your on the right side of history, lol grow up.

You say that verifiable facts are "misinformation" and you unironically use the word "cis", a made up buzzword by woketivists. You're not a centrist, centrist don't push misinformation and you certainly don't stand for "equality", that's been disproven several times over with example of your misandry, heterophobia and black supremacy over the last 2 years. You view actual centrism as "alt right extremism" when it's simply people that don't buy your brainrot marxism.

The world has rejecting your tribalistic racism and sexism and all you can do a cope and seethe so go ahead and keep coping and seething and make up whatever lie makes you feel better because no one will ever listen to you freaks again. Make as many strawmen to knock down as you like, the real people your talking to know your a political zealot becuase they live in the real world and interact with real people everyday. You can't gaslight people like that, no matter how many claims you.

Take me for example, how many times have you falsely claimed I'm a trump supporter or a viewer of fox news because it matches the strawman you made of me? You will never accept reality because it means giving up your hateful, segregatory, Marxist beliefs. It means accepting elon musk, while a typical businessman sure, is not the villain of your main character syndrome story and that he has done far more good than bad. It means accepting there are no alt right extremists hiding in your cereal. You refuse to engage with reality and that is why you people have been taking L after L after L over the last 2 years because you simply can't understand WHY your beliefs are wrong. You have to be able to listen and accept other peoples viewpoints but a perpetual victim like you will never be able to do that so you'll never understand why your backwards beliefs keep getting rejecting and you'll keep blaming everyone else like you people always do. And you and your beliefs will keep getting purged from studios, companies, schools and the government until you and your disgusting movement is dead and gone. Enjoy irrelevancy in your every shrinking gilded echo chamber loser.

AaaAAAAaaahhh, now it makes sense. You're one of those woke cancel pigs that "left" twitter after you couldn't censor and bully the vast majority of people that disagreed with and/or corrected you anymore.

Let me guess, you couldn't accept that your alt-left extremist ideology was rejected wholesale by everyone once they could actually speak without being censored by the site's previous liberal staff so you created this delusion that Elon was gonna get ya, right?

Lol. Keep seething loser. Your era of misandry, racism and misinformation is over.

Lol, someone sounds bitter. Never mind the fact that i listed TWO good things he did in this comment thread. But in addition to fighting back against censorship and turning twitter into a free speech platform, he's also been leading the charge in clean electric cars and our space program just to name a few things. Take your "eat the rich" bullshit somewhere else, lol.

YouTube really doesn't like it when you embed their videos

Yeah, not placing the blame on you, just annoyed that every game i've gotten hooked on lately is either a demo or the full release is on steam instead of here so i can't play them.

Military incremental complex, antivirus protocol, rock crusher, cozy crunch, click and conquer, auto balls ><

I came here from Shirlierox on YouTube. Annoyed that i got hooked on yet ANOTHER demo. It seems this website has more demos than actual games and carllacan's library seems to only be demos ><

Yeah, what banana said. Being able to see your currencies during the levels helps you gauge what to prioritize and when to leave the level if you want to.

You're going to get some hate from competitive gamers for focusing on fun instead of "challenge", but don't listen to them. I had a blast with the game and aside from the issues i listed in my other comment the game is perfect.

I do hope you don't go too crazy with slowing down progression in the full release, the late game grind has to be the worst part of incremental games.

Massively fun game. A problem though, the cursor keep flying out of the game screen making traveling to the edges of the arena impossible. A solution I've seen is locking the cursor to the game border "Itch.io now has control of your cursor".

Also I'd recommend providing the download for the game here on Itch as people are more likely to download it here than for a private launcher like steam.

Anyway. I'm really looking forward to the full release ^_^

Sweet! Full release! Let's GOOOOOO!

I haven't had any issues and I'm on windows.

Game is damn addictive, TOO addictive. The demo restrictions are crippling, lol. Can't wait for the full release ^_^