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What happens when your username is the same name?

A topic by Paolo Fassin created Feb 15, 2019 Views: 321 Replies: 2
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If I look for my username to see what I have published, I also see an icon with the title of a science fiction story (the alchemist) in which the protagonist has the same surname.
This icon sends me to this address: https://mneu.itch.io/the-alchemist where a videogame is advertised.
This is wrong, because it seems that the videogame was produced by me, while it is not.
Even the address seems strange to me (mneu.itch.io, instead of itch.io).
Can someone help me? Anyway thanks.

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I assume the search returns the game in question since the keyword appears in the game's description tagline. I can't say with certainty that this is intended or not, but I think it makes sense. An alternative is to have the search split up by "search game names"/"search creator names" etc, but I think this is a better approach. In either case, every result has the creator's name displayed below the game's description. If you want to look up all games by a creator, just open their page :p

As for the strange url, creator pages begin with their username (yours would be paolo-fassin.itch.io for example)

Hope that clears it up!

Thanks, it's all true what you said. In fact the address of my page is different from the one provided by the search and in it no longer appears that link. The search can not be different when you specify a username or a game name. It is always a comparison between the specified words and the titles of the applications in the itch.io database.