Hello itch.io Community,

I was about to update my games Meta data and wanted to add Ardour as my DAW of choice I use for editing / recording sound effects. However it is not listed as a tool.

While going through the suggesting a new tool process the last step requires me to add at least 3 games here on itch.io which do use Ardour for their audio.

Since I can not know who does and who doesn’t because nobody can classify it in their projects meta I was like, well why not ask.

Therefore, if you use Ardour and have a game live here on itch please let me know so I can add them to the suggestion request.

Many thanks,

• Night Crawler.

FAQ:

What the heck is Ardour?

Ardour is a free and open-source digital audio workstation and hard disk recorder that runs on Linux, macOS, FreeBSD and Microsoft Windows.

See: Official Website and Wikipedia

Yeah I’ve read that about external promotion. Which in theory is fine but in reality it is hard to promote things to a none existed community if someone wants to build one here to start somewhere.

In any case promoting on any other platform is as good as here, I would start from scratch there too.

Guess I have just to do my thing then. Thank you for your time shed some light on this confusing tagging / indexing matter. Much appreciated!

Yes you’re right some of the tags do not fit very well to the current state of development. I am a bit hesitant now to change any tag at all in the current situation. Not that somehow by changing thing the game get reset to the end of the review queue or the likes.

Regarding implicit tags. As my game was actually indexed I tested several tags via the discovery page to verify how users would discover the game. One thing I noticed was that the “No AI”-Tag worked for my game despite I never added that one to the tags myself. Which is why I assumed some tags may be added based on the classification. Which then lead me to the initial disaster by removing adult tags and see which ones remain so I could then add those missing I deem necessary.

Edit: Just verified the No AI thing. If you click on Content No generative AI was used it will lead the user to https://itch.io/games/tag-no-ai which makes me assume the No AI tag is implicitly set for those games.

Yes I guess as much. Still it is weird to me it once was reviewed and indexed before. But then, after changing tags, it went into moderation again despite the “Has sensitive content” classification still in place?

Since we only have 10 tags available for tagging a game I wanted to verify I do not over use them according to the official guidelines. Hence, if there’s a classification like “No AI used”, “Multiplayer” certain tags get implicitly added to the game. I thought the same applies to NFSW content as there is a switch to classify a game as mature.

Therefore I removed the tags: adult, NFSW, erotic from my game to verify where it appears eg. if I need to manually add these tags or not. But instead the game just got de-indexed while being index and discoverable before.

I suppose there is some automated moderation tool at work here which tries to prevent adult content from appear in the regular search / discovery if someone tries to be funky with their tags? However I did not unchecked the “Has sensitive content — This project is not suited for minors or the workplace” box during this process.

After re-adding said tags the game still was not re-indexed yet so I reached out to the support a few days back with no response so far.

Also I am not sure if this classifies as bug or the automated tools did their job right. In anyway I would appreciate to know which tags “Has sensitive content” implicitly adds to a game so I can avoid using them twice. Like “No generative AI was used” will add the “No AI” Tag to the game and classify it as multiplayer will add the “multiplayer” tag etc.

In addition I verified to comply with the NFSW guidelines on this platform at least twice. Which explicitly states to use the “Has sensitive content” switch which is still ticked. So it came as a surprise to me removing tags resulted in de-indexing.

I really did not meant to act in bad faith here just to use the tags wisely. Nor am I in the knowing to ever violated any guidelines in other ways.

Kind regards,
Night Crawler from Wicked Gargoyle Productions

Sure thing.

1. Save and close the game
2. Locate the save file usually: path_to_your_game\Dungeon Keep Her_Data\Save\your-save-game.json
3. Open that file in any text editor of your liking
   • attention the save file is HUGE) as it seems to store way too many thing unrelated to the game. I suspect this to be the save system of Dungeon: Raid Her
   • Also I recommend to format that file, many editors have shortcuts for this, otherwise it is hard to read
4. Locate your character, best is to search for it’s in-game name

There should be the following properties, name, lastName, race, icon, appearance, position.

position is the section we want, there you’ll find x, y, z, rotx, roty, rotz, rotW. What you want to change is x, y and z. Save values are:

“x”: 391.3213,
“y”: 0.198000014,
“z”: 357.14856,

This is the position of the 3rd room east of the entrance. Usually this is the throne room if not relocated. By saving and loading your game the character should be unstucked.

Well you can also edit the save game as it is a plain text file and enter simply any number of cash you'd like (or unstuck your characters which happens fairly often)