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Hey guys, I just released the first demo of my new slow-paced, survival/ adventure game (still in development) as well the main page here on itch.io! Give it a look if you can and tell me what you think ;)

https://sweepingavalanche.itch.io/mofina-island

About Mofina Island:

Mofina Island is a slow paced survival/ adventure game, where you will need to try and solve the deep mysteries of the island as well make everything you can to survive on your own. Gather food and other resources, build tools and other items and use your GAME BUD System to defend yourself of the scary ghosts attacks!

Cheers!

Problem solved.

For future reference of anyone needing the information, One you ask for a payout all you need (Addresses, Tax numbers etc) will be available for you. Just need to ask for a payout first.

Hope it can help anyone else in the future. And thanks for everyone's help here :)

After reading and googling much on the subject it seems that some kind of information (addresses and Tax numbers (TIN)) is given once you recieve the payout.

Can anyone confirm this? I dont want to aks for a payout before having this informations first, otherwise it will be a fraud on my part! 

Thanks, I already sended an email. Hope it does not take long, I really cant do a thing without those informations XD

Hey guys, I am a developer and I am going to ask for my first payment. 

I have everythink ready for that (tax interviews, paypal account etc) but I need urgently itchio's Legal adress and tax number (TIN i think, but not sure).

I am from portugal and we do need the adress and tax id of anyone we recieve money from, otherwise it can be tax fraud or evasion (even if every penny is declared!).

So please can anyone help me here, were can i get this legal info? Is it here on the site? Do I need to send a mail?

Thanks for all the help!

How long does it take for a game to apear? More than a week now and nothing... Does it really apear when you release it, or is it a choise from the admins?

It seems to me that the admins are the ones that chose what games apear there. I dont have a problem with that, I just wanted to know if any game does apear or not XD

Does anybody now for sure how it is? Maybe someone else is also curious about this.

Lol i just saw the button. Thanks for the help and sorry for my stupidity XD

I think it is possoble, I think I read it somewere here on the foruns but I am trying to do so on my game's page and I cannot understand were.

Is it really possible (and if is how do I do it), or I am wrong?

Thanks for the help :)

Thanks for the reply. It is my first paid game, and I already made a major update for the release. I will just wait then and hope the admins will aprove it :)

Thanks for your help and kind words :)

Hey guys, I just released my first game today (https://sweepingavalanche.itch.io/devoul), and I was wondering if there is a way to see my game on that first pop up that apears when you first enter itch.io (advertising recent games).

Can I do something for that or is this resposability for the creators of itch.io?

Thanks in advance!

I just submited the tax interview. Could you please check if everything is in order now. I did not get any kind of errors.

Thanks.

Thank you for the support but I did not do it yet. I will do it in a few hours. I was just asking if it took look to be accepted. Probably in a hour or 2 I will submit my tax interview and get the response on that question.

Thanks so much man! It helps a lot! I was thinking I had to wait months before it was accepted. And about the game, maybe in a week or two I can finnaly be oficially a published developer. Dream comed true! :)

I would advice, if you can put some content on the page (video, images, some text), to create the page. It helps you to create more followers, deliver devlogs and even you can give ppl links to the page when you are advertising your game elsewere.

I am a hobbiest developer and not an expert, but I do think its better to have a page as soon as possible. Better yet if you can add some demo :)

Hope it helps.

Hey guys, I am currently working on all my legal stuff to publish my game, and if everything goes well I will submit my tax interview in a few days. I would just like to ask to all developers here that had passed thro this interview for how long does it usually take to be accepted?

I alredy gave it a look (to the interview) and I think everything is quite clear to me on how to fiil all the info, but I dont want to publish the game or  aks for any payments until the tax interview is accepted. I like to have everything in order before doing so.

Thanks in advance.

Thank you for your answer and sorry to bother so much.

Btw thank you also for making such an amazing site like itch.io. I fell I could never launch a videogame if it was not for this site and ppl like you and your team. So thanks you kind sir, and all the best for your future projects :)

So just to clarify and resume: (besides all the finantial implications) There will not be any impediment for me to recive the earnings of my game's sales if I use my wife's paypal account. Is that so?

Thanks.

Thank you for your answer. I was also thinking that that could hapend.

But neverteless It's my wife's account and we are married and I do intent to declare ALL I earn and pay ALL my taxes. I do not fear any audition because the money is from my work, it just on my wife's bank account (here in portugal there is no problem with that). I just dont see a need to have a new bank account (and me and my wife are also thinking about making the bank account a shared one).

If i can make any kind of financial success I do intend in the future to make a new bank account only in my name but for the moment I just dont see if making one is really needed (my game can make only a few bucks...)

I just wanted to know if the payements in future can be in anyway delayed or canceled because the paypal name is my wife's and not mine.

Thanks you very much :)

I already mailed this to support and about 10 days ago but I had no answer. I understand ppl are very busy.

Neverteless maybe someone here can help me. I just need to know if I can use a paypal account set in my wife's name or do i have to create a new bank account and paypal account. Maybe someone is in this situation. I plan to release my game really soon and I dont fell confortable doing it without knowing this first...

Thanks again.

Is it possible to give the paypal account of my wife to be used in the payment of the sales of my games, or do I have to open a back account and a new paypal account in my name? (I do not have a bank accout at the moment or a paypal account).

Thansk for the help

Thanks, I looked it up and it seems it's normal to just lose the ~ and say Simao. Simon is also a option but it has a few more changes. I ges I will just lose the ~ and say Simao and hope for the best :)

Thanks for the help.

I do not have a passport no... And it's just a single character a "~" all the other characters are usen in english alphabeth. 

That's why its so frustrating...

Hello guys, I will go straigth to the point here.

I am finishing my game and I want to publish it here in the next 1 to 2 months.

I decided to check out the tax interview, and it seemed quite simple and straigthfoward, one questio emerged tho.

My name is Simão (portuguese) and the "~" is not accepted in the name. Is this going to be any kind of problem while itch.io check my identity with the tax in portugal? My legal name is Simão and not Simao.

Thanks for the help, guys.

Hey guys, my first game "Devoul- Curse of the soulless" (https://sweepingavalanche.itch.io/devoul) is almost ready. I am developing this game for around 3 year now in ALL my free time. The game is a pixel art metroidvania with lots of content like mini-games, side-quests, diferent game modes and much more (I am expecting to deliver at least 20 hours of gameplay with it),

So as my first game I have NO IDEA AT ALL what I can expect, and my question is simple based in this numbers: (same for 2 years now)

Around 2000 views year;

175 DEMO downloads year;

What do you guys think I can expect from sales (15 dollars game price)?

I know it's not easy to say, but I just wanted a general idea like can I expect 20 copies sales or more like 200 or something?

Thanks for the help, and i know is a bit abstract response but all help is more than apreciated!

Thanks guys!

Thanks for the feedback guys, just one more thing, the downloads are of a free demo, am I suposed to expect such numbers in sales or they are completly unrelated? Sorry for a silly question but I really have no idea as this is my first try to make and sell a game. (The game price is going to be around 15 euros/dollars).

Thank you, glad you like it, and thanks for the feedback on the numbers, it´s good to know :)

Thanks for the feedback :)

Hey guys, first of all I am a solo developer making a metroidvania game in pixel art (check out the game here: https://sweepingavalanche.itch.io/devoul). I have been workin ain ALL my free time for around 2.5 years now and I am geting close to the release date (probably in 6 to 9months). 

My question is this, I have around 3,254 viwes, 284 download (demo at the moment) and 25 folowers, what I would love to know fro you guys is if these numbers are normal/bad/good.

I know its hard to tell and each case is a case but, if possible, tell me what you think about these numbers. I have NO idea at all as this is my first project.

Ps. I have an itchio account for around 1.5 years and have done some advertise only in redit, facebook and youtube in the form of some trailers, gameplay videos or just some pics of the gameplay (no money was spend).

Thanks for all the help guys! :)

Nice work, keep it up ;)

Fellow solo dev here (as hobby) to tell you that this is an amazin work. Keep it up, this is something!