Hi,

I have bought a game for a 50x higher price than the minimum required, intending it as a donation to support the developer. I'm wondering if the developer can see that I paid this much, sort of a "top contributors" view or similar. Do they even have tools to see how much people paid above the minimum, or the only thing they can do is to compute income / sales to approximate it? 

On the Creator Dashboard there is a Payments tab under which we can see the list of individual payments and email if we need to contact the buyer if there are purchasing issues, but there's a directive not to share it or use it for marketing, so that's why you might not get a thank you email or announcement crediting you.

But I'm sure it's appreciated, e.g. I recently received an email notification from itch.io that someone paid $20 for one of my pay-what-you-want games, and I immediately checked my dashboard to admire that generous donation, which by the way also pushed my earnings over the $20 minimum to get a payout.

I suggest also leaving a nice review in their discussion board and maybe mention you paid more than the minimum to support the developer - that'd be a nice reminder to everyone else that they can do the same.