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NSFW Demo Question

A topic by The Anax created 3 days ago Views: 148 Replies: 15
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My games are currently delisted for being awesomely adult, I decided to create demos of them.  I was told FREE demos would be listed even with NSFW content.  My question is, I need to make a whole new page, with links to the real game, right?  Like the demos for my games will be on their own separate pages and not free files on my main games' pages?

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Moderator

You probably shouldn't make separate pages for your demos just to circumvent indexing restrictions.

Please explain.

I thought that was the whole point. Didn't itch want us to do that? Like they want us to go ahead and make the free stuff so that it can show up indexed correct? Or am I missing something?

Moderator

In this situation however you're suggesting to make a separate page for the free demo because the full game can't be indexed. This goes against guidelines in two different ways. It might not be a good idea.

What guidelines?  I don't follow.

Moderator

...The quality guidelines that you should be familiar with already.

No reason to be cheeky (I help pay your salary, I'm not a leech on the site), I obviously meant which ones would I (and hundreds if not tens of thousands of others) be breaking is what I meant.

Moderator

I'm a volunteer, and free games are welcome on itch.io; that's not the issue.

Oh, good, I didn't there was an issue.  And thanks for your service!

Actually, never mind, I will go ahead and make a separate page.  I just had the idea of going to the main Itch.io page and typing "Demo" and yeah it looks like all creators do the demos separate from their game's main page (SFW or NSFW).  I figured this was how to do it.

Not to mention I have had my two Faction demo versions on itch for many years now.

In fact after doing even more research, you, yourself say I can do it either way.  So I will choose a project page for the demos.

https://itch.io/t/1564349/how-to-handle-game-demos

So, looks ok.

Moderator

...That was a different time, and nothing NFSW was involved. Suit yourself, but I'm not sure why you even asked since you seem determined to ignore my advice.

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I asked in a few discords as well with other content creators, and they have also done this, as Itch itself, in its public statements about NSFW seemed to literally be asking us to do/implying for us to make things for free to get relisted.  When I first asked this today, I had only started looking into it.

I should add, why I asked was because I didn't know if I keep them on the page with my paid games, if that means since it will have a free demo (not even sure if I can set the demo to free on the same page as content set to paid), but I was asking would it get listed if it is on a page also with paid content.

So, in case, based on how you are kind of coming off, let me make sure you understand, I am not ignoring your advice or typing any of this with any kind of vitriol or meaning to come off any anything less than grateful to you, but after 12 hours looking into this I am learning a lot.  It sent me all over the place, but the more I have learned the more it looks like setting a separate page as a demo appears to be the cleanest and most likely to get people to my paid games (which makes money for Itch too, I've paid thousands of dollars over the years, I could have kept, and chose not to do so as an honorable person).