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give up on engines

A topic by hacknorris created 95 days ago Views: 218 Replies: 5

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i see how much you are interested in that your feature of listing game engines so maybe just leave that? and like go back to moment when it just wasn't? when game engines kept being shown as tools and not outside? really, it's bad now… and also remove option to select "tools you used". i doubt a player will play something just cause "it was made with godot/unity"…

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hacknorris95 days ago

just give up. like normal humans do. if you can't include things. from. your. own. first. page then idk why such (anti) feature exists…

yep, the red ones, non-existing, are FROM FIRST PAGE, and that's the only start of problems cause YOU wanted to list engines and you even DON'T know how to do it…

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redonihunter95 days ago

I am not sure what you are talking about or to whom you are talking to.

Itch does not "list" game engines. Or games, or anthing else on this site. Oh, they show the list, but they do not fill it.

So if you look here https://itch.io/tools/tag-game-engine , a thing like https://godotengine.itch.io/godot was listed by this user: https://godotengine.itch.io/ . The only "official" thing about this, is the fact that this account has the verified account checkmark. Something you see rarely on games.

The account owner listed the project under these tags in the tool category:

2D, 3D, free, Game engine, Godot, godot-engine, libre, Open Source

I especially do not understand what you mean with existing and not existing. Are you talking about meta information? If you cannot select a made-with option for an engine you used, use a regular tag, if you wanna brag how your game was made. Unfortunately, both mechanisms are used and not all engines are in https://itch.io/game-development/engines or the meta info.

For the games actually made with an engine, you can filter this way:

https://itch.io/games/tag-godot

https://itch.io/games/made-with-godot

And yes, some people will look for the information which tools were used to make a game. I know firsthand, because I do this occasionally. Doing so is a bit clumsy, because like I mentioned, the usage of the engine information is not unified. It could be a tag, it could be a meta-information, it could not be given at all.

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hacknorris95 days ago

1) i talk more about https://itch.io/game-development/engines than about some generic tag.

2) been trying myself to add a tool via official page to add it but nothing happened (waited year for anything to happen and i still don't see pocket platformer on that list cause it was that tool i tried to submit)

3) i just prefer to not have information than have wrong information (here for example if i select opensource tools it hides some other still opensource tools which are only less used)

4) i am talking (trying to talk) to mods of itch…

5) yep, i also talk about meta-information where i tried to add things too

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redonihunter95 days ago

If you already suggested this engine to be included in the meta info, the actual Itch staff that deals with these things did not approve. Like they also did not for the hundreds of other tools that are not available in the meta-info.

Maybe Itch will overhaul and exapand the meta section someday. I specifically do not like that there is a Unity tag and a Unity meta-info and that those lists are not the same. Stuff like that might be solved with aliases.

In the meantime, if you want to have the engine you used listed on your game's info box, use a regular tag. https://itch.io/games/tag-pocket-platformer and can also credit it in your game's description.

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No Time To PlayModerator95 days ago(+2)

i doubt a player will play something just cause "it was made with godot/unity"…

I know from experience that a Unity game isn't going to work on my computer, while a Godot game almost certainly will, and very well at that. So actually yes, I do pay attention to engines.

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