itch.io Year in Review 2014 - The Features

Although we’re almost 10 days into 2015 but I’d like to take a moment to reflect back on 2014 for itch.io. A lot of great stuff came out, many games were downloaded, played, and bought, and tons of new features came out on itch.io.

Here’s the list for 2014:

December

• Updates for VAT
• Sale goals and sale analytics
• Updated classification options for game pages
• itch.io desktop app development picks up pace

November

• Game jams get lots of new features
• Managing purchases made easier

October

• The games feed!
• Follow your favorite developers and gamers

September

• Brand new tagging system
• Personalize game recommendation engine

August

• A new acceptable use policy
• Logged in uses get tools for managing their purchases

July

• Detailed purchase referrer analytics
• Bundles!
• Press system applicaiton
• Offer downloads with your web games

June

• Browse game jams
• Upload your games from Dropbox

May

• Manage submissions to game jams
• Host a collaborative jam with jam admins
• Browse your rated games
• Public domain field added to jams
• Game jams open to the world
• itch droid, an itch.io Android app

April

• Rate games
• Browsable collections
• Offensive content can be reported
• New content types for uploaded projects
• Link download keys to account
• itch.io press system

March

• Game jams get upgrades and new results page
• Give games as gifts
• JSON API

February

• Give a demo with your game
• Private sharable game pages
• Game page collaborators

January

• Email buyers
• Sell Steam keys
• New uploader
• Google Analytics
• RSS Feeds for browse

Awesome, definitely seems like a lot when you write it all down. I’m really looking forward to what 2015 will bring! I’ll have a second post shortly with some detailed analytics and maybe some speculation about where itch.io is going.

• Leaf