Web monetization is an open javascript api that allows content creators to receive money for their works in various ways - in an open and secure way. You can see other creators sites starting to adopt this:
https://js13kgames.com/webmonetization
https://discuss.write.as/t/web-monetization/1646
https://dev.to/hacksultan/web-monetization-like-i-m-5-1418
It would mean a lot for creators if itch.io offered this possibility as well.
I have a few questions, if you are familiar with web monetization.
How is the money payed? From what I’ve read, content creators are getting paid when people play their game, but it doesn’t mention how that money is generated. Is it ads? Selling user’s data? Mining cryptocurrency? Something else?
To add this to your game, all you have to do is add an HTML tag, right? So you should be able to do that already. I’m not sure how Itch can support that more? (Unless there’s a rule against it I’m not aware of)
For payment it depends on the client. For many folks, they are using the Coil plugin. You deposit a small amount of money in Coil ( say $5 a month) and it will know when you are on a site that accepts web monetization and send drips of pennies to that site as you spend time there. https://xrpcommunity.blog/how-to-monetize-your-content-with-coil/
You can add the meta tag to your HTML content but Itch.io has that in an IFRAME. So Itch.io needs to add an attribute to that Iframe to allow web monetization: https://webmonetization.org/docs/api#iframes
<iframe src="/wm/example.htm" width="600" height="800" allow="monetization"></iframe>
