Thank you for playing it! Yes it's a short one, more coming soon!

This one is definitely more of a challenge than my other games, thank you for trying it out and making a video, I enjoyed it! More games to come soon!

I'm glad you like the humor, thank you for playing! More to come soon!

Thank you for playing and rating my game!

Thank you for playing my game!

Thank you for playing, I enjoyed the video! This one is a bit of a challenge to beat, congrats!

Thank you for playing!

Thank you so much for playing, I always enjoy your videos!

Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed it

Thank you for playing!

Me gustó el vídeo, ¡gracias por jugar!

Make a topic about it and write your support email ticket ID

Write your support email ticket ID here

No I don't expect itch.io to promote my oldest game, as I've mentioned, so far from my experience, being at the top of most recent is what would propel the games (if we at least put some actual effort into the game, page, and poster) into New And Popular

And perhaps if it is very good, it will do well on that new tab and go to the next tab, and as the "most recent" name implies, this is only for new games, and only one chance for a game, if it falls off, it falls off, and I do not expect itch.io to promote it for me

But on the other hand, I also did not expect that the one chance at discoverability through the most recent page could be taken out of the developers hand, which for established and known developers may not be a problem, but would certainly have an impact on newer developers who expected a fair shot for their projects

And again, it might also be that we're not supposed to depend on itch.io at all, no matter how small, even to give a fair shot to us in the Most Recent tab as I've described, this is what I am learning from our discussion. If this is the case and official stance of the platform, it should be very clearly and aggressively communicated to new developers, since most new developers including myself, would expect the platform to behave consistently and not take away the one helping hand the platform gives us at discover ability

And I have to reiterate, my expectations are not to have the platform consistently promote my old games, or on the other hand have the platform completely provide zero help at all by taking the fair chance at discoverability through the Most Recent page.

No, we must not view it from these extremes, we must take the middle ground and look at it realistically for what it is, that is, the platform indeed is not intended or expected to land a helping hand at discoverability in the long term, but it does give you a fair shot for your game by being at the Most Recent tab to be noticed by players through impressions, and if it is of good quality, it will be propelled into the other tabs which, how far it is propelled, is depending on how good of qualities it has. That's why I said by taking away the chance of the project to be at the top of Most Recent, is unfair, especially for newer developers

I don't know if what I'm saying here resonates with other people or not, or it's only for my genre/theme, or maybe even it's only for me personally, but that is the fair assessment that I can give based on my experience and observations so far, and also the reason why I've said and what I said about taking away Most Recent exposure would be unfair

Very well, thank you for providing an actionable step that I can take, that eases me a little

Sorry for the long posts, as I understand, you are a volunteer, thank you for your time in clarifying things and providing your help

The tags do help slightly, but in my personal experience, the number one top contributing driver of visits is from being at the top of most recent due to the impressions and visits, and then the visits from most recent would push it into new and popular

Other people might have different results depending on genre/theme or simply different luck or unexplained algorithm behavior, I believe it is not deterministic, I am explaining this has been what worked for two of my games in the past and what I am familiar with, and my capacity is to learn from my experience

We should not ignore the context, that the draw towards this platform for new game developers is that it gives us a fighting chance and a glimmer of hope to start from scratch specifically through the Most Recent page that we have discussed

I personally could not have kept my motivation to make games going if it wasn't for the Most Recent page that has helped with impressions. Even if it's at the top for a few hours, it pushes my games into New And Popular at least, and I feel comfort knowing that, this platform does give me a fair chance, even from scratch, if I try to make good content for players

If it is the case that we are not guaranteed a fair shot at exposure due to the lateness of being indexed, it should be clearly and aggressively communicated upon developers who just registered and/or creating a new project page

Maybe this has been very clearly communicated and I'm just oblivious, or I have completely misread this platform and its purpose/behavior. These are also possibilities, but I cannot shake the feeling that other new developers must have thought the same as I did, because we see the Most Recent and we make the correlation of a fair shot given to all

I would be less sad if I had known earlier and braced my expectations, it felt like a betrayal of the trust that I had in expecting consistent behavior from the platform. But I know that's not what it is, I'm just explaining where I'm coming from and why I have such a strong reaction to it, I understand the position of this platform now, thank you for enlightening me

As for the devlog workaround you mentioned, I can make a blank one when it is indexed and mark it as a major release? Perhaps I should leave a note inside, explaining that it was indexed late and I'm making this for that purpose? And this does have a clear possibility the staff will approve it?

But that is unfair, I did everything according to the guidelines that was set by the platform for this game and my previous ones

You're saying when my game gets indexed, it will go down along with the previous days/weeks/months's games without being given a chance to be at the top of most recent, to have that sliver of exposure, is what I'm understanding

The brief spike in most recent that you mentioned, has so far been a saving grace to push my previous games into "new and popular" through several thousands of impressions at the very least, when social media posts get no traction, it is no small thing that we can neglect for newer developers like myself

I'm not blaming you, I thank you for bringing this information to me, but I have to say this is a very depressing exposition to be given, I just wish I had understood that earlier as it has made me distraught because I was excited to release a new game

Sorry for venting, is there a way I can get my game to have that sliver of "top of most recent" once it's indexed?  Perhaps I can delete the old page once any review is complete to determine nothing is wrong with it, and make an identical one? Any solution you can help me with, I would appreciate it

So it really is just random checks even if there was no issue previously?  I guess it's fine if its really needed for platform safety, but I would be lying if I said it wasn't concerning because there's no indication or notice at all to the developer

Also can you clarify about the thing I asked above, about is most recent sorted by time indexed or the published date? I am not clear about that, thank you for helping me

Hello, I published a game and it has not been indexed: https://that-guy-who-makes-games.itch.io/lights-out

I have made sure it meets the quality guidelines and the settings are correctly configured. I have wrote a support email ticket number 277526, but I'm posting here in hopes to help speed up the process, since I searched around and saw this is a common issue...

I have published 3 games previously in my lifetime and they've all been listed pretty much within minutes, that's why this concerns me.

Also, if my game is indexed late, does it show up much more down in most recent or it sorts by the time of indexing? This worries me greatly because I usually get most of my traffic from the most recent page, so I really hope it depends on the time it is indexed... I know the FAQ says to not depend on most recent for visibility but my social media posts don't get much traction so it is how it is...

I appreciate any help on this

LIGHTS OUT

You know that feeling when you turn off the lights downstairs and run up to your room because you were scared?

That's what my game is about, I just released it for free, play it here!

https://that-guy-who-makes-games.itch.io/lights-out

Enjoy, please rate and comment your thoughts! Thank you!

Here's a trailer I made for it:

¡Gracias por tu atenta reseña! ¡Lo aprecio y continuaré haciendo mejores juegos! :D

Good video!, unexpected in a good way I hope! :D

Thank you for playing!

The Game

I just released this game about Bigfoot. It's a short (~15 min) horror game for 1$: https://that-guy-who-makes-games.itch.io/the-biggerfoot

I did my best to create a creepy atmosphere through the sounds, setting, and surroundings.

This is my 2nd actual game that I ever made, my skills are still rough.

Cut-scenes

I also made cut-scenes for the intro and ending, which took a lot more effort than I expected, but I like them, so it's worth it.

Shooting

There's also a shooting section in the game. It is simple and brief, but works well to spice things up.

Play it and tell me what you think, it costs 1$: https://that-guy-who-makes-games.itch.io/the-biggerfoot

Thank you for taking the time to read, bye bye!

I appreciate your motivating kind words! I will do my best to make better games in the future

This is only the 2nd game I ever made, so I optimized it as much as I know how :D

Good video! I'm glad you liked it!

And yes he's got a very unique name XD

Thank you very much, that is impressive!

I enjoyed the video, I'm glad it got some spooks out of you! Thank you for playing!

I'm glad it did! Thank you for playing it!

I'm glad you enjoyed the glowing eggs! I added those because I myself got lost without them while testing the game!

Also, I noticed that the screen stretch is messed up because I did not account for different screen sizes, it should be fixed now, thanks to the video you made in making me realize it!

Hello again, I just realized I forgot to take into account different screen sizes as I only tested it on a 1080p monitor at 16:9 aspect ratio, the game should now stretch properly on different screens and the crosshair should be at the center now, apologies for not realizing this earlier, and thank you.

I won't!

Thank you very much, this is my first ever 3D game, and my 2nd ever game, I will keep improving for future projects!

Thank you for your kind words! I'm very, very new to making games, I'm still figuring out a lot of things and how to outsource help is one of them,

When I am more confident in my abilities and comfortable with outsourcing talents for projects, I will contact you if the offer is still up!

Thank you for your kind offer and once again for your compliments, it makes my day!

Hi! Thank you for the compliment,

I tested it again just now and it seems to work for me, there is a white crosshair in the middle of the screen that you need to align with the object to interact

Also, not every item can be interacted with, only objective items such as TV's, trash bags, light switches,

This is a fault on my part, I should have highlighted the objects when they are interactable,

Try again with what I said in mind and tell me if it works, sorry for the inconvenience and thank you for playing my game!