Hi, I have a endless arcade game on itch. So, in the metadata, it asks the time to complete a session (complete and level, run). But, as mine is a endless game, it does not have a playing session as you can play it as long as you want and it depends upon the player, I have currently set it as "a few seconds". But, I think there should be an option for and "endless"
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A play session is not how long the game goes, but how long an “average player” is meant to spend on your game. If someone spends 15 minutes, will they explore everything the game has to offer? Will 30 minutes be enough? Or maybe 3 hours?
If you give the game to a friend of yours that has never played it before, how long until they stop playing?
It’s worth noting that the session time is not a strict measure, but more of a guide of what players to expect. Some players are looking to spend 5 minutes on their lunch break, others want to invest hours.
Sorry to jump into someone else's thread here, but I had a similar question--similar, yet different. I will shortly (well, in a couple weeks) be uploading a lightly interactive TWINE version of a novel I wrote some years back, and I'm completely baffled as to what to put on the "average session duration" for it. As it is a full length novel (a bit long for some genres, in fact, being over 100k words) I would expect most people to take a couple of days to read it all. (Whether or not they want to read it all is unfortunately not something I can predict, naturally.) I have no idea how long most people would want to spend sitting at their computer reading it at a time, and as everyone reads at different speeds, I can't even guess how long it would take someone to read a single section of the book/game. Do I try to guess how long people might want to spend reading at a single sitting, or do I put "Days or more" since that's how long it would take most people to get through the whole story? (Unless they decide to stick with an early "Game Over" ending, that is.)
If you feel like you have a project that doesn’t fit any of the options, then don’t provide an answer. It’s okay to leave a section blank if it’s not appropriate for your work. The option is provided to enable people to filter projects that explicitly provide that kind of experience. Hope that helps.
