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My game has not been indexed

A topic by plasmatic created 82 days ago Views: 290 Replies: 7
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Hi all, I released my first game 3 weeks ago and the game is still not search-able on Browse. What could be the reason?

When I first released, since the game is still in-development, at first I checked the checkbox to make it unlisted intentionally, but after the second version I unchecked that, updated the project, added another devlog and a cover image, and a new version a week after that but still the game is not listed. 

I'm planning a release of some major changes in a few days but I'm wondering if I need to do something more to make it actually Listed? Any help would be welcome, thanks.

Link to the game page: https://plasmatic.itch.io/izborna-loodnica

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Your game has to be seen by itch.io staff first. Please read this unofficial FAQ for details.

Thank you very much @NoTimeToPlay for fast reply (means a lot). I was searching for that exact query "game not indexed" and that post didn't pop up somehow. 

Useful stuff, and I agree with all of it. Somewhere I read that it could take a few days but wanted to check that everything is okay on my side. I do have a website quite ready (I'm a backend dev btw), but since the game is still in-development practically and I'm starting to get some traction and first "followers" I'm still trying to focus on player feedback and it would mean a lot if the game is at least shown when someone enters it's name in the search bar. Now it says there is absolutely nothing when someone types the game name: https://itch.io/search?q=Izborna+Loodnica.

I'll publish some more screenshots after the next release and probably a short video but please let me know if there is anything more I can do about it. 

Moderator (1 edit)

I don't know. I don't think so. And that's right, your game isn't currently indexed, pending staff review, so it's not going to show up in a search. Please focus on doing your own promotion.

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Hello I have one more question. Since i released a new version and I added some new screenshots and just made a promo video and it seems I cannot put the link to the game in the video description https://ibb.co/d0HxbCBd o.O.  And unfortunately since my game is still not indexed here I also cannot just tell them to go and search for it on itch.io. 

Do you have any ETA of when will it be indexed since it has been almost a month since I released and I found some very small games with no content at all and no devlogs or anything that has been indexed so I'm not sure what is the criteria?

Moderator

I don't know. If it takes much longer, the rules of this category tell you what to do.

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It would be nice if the creator's dashboard gave some indication of what's going on.

Wouldn't matter if it was just a couple hours, but since "weeks" is the norm for new creators, some hint that it's not broken would really be appreciated.

exactly. thank you very much,

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