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StickyDevelopersPackaging Your Unity Game for itch.io: A Step-by-Step Guide

This post will guide you through packaging your Unity game on Windows for a smooth upload and download experience for yo...

started by leafo Nov 02, 2023

7 replies

8,811 views

MeFox66

47 days ago

StickyDevelopersTips for reducing the size of your build

If you’ve ever tried to upload a larger game to itch.io, you may have noticed that we have a default file size limit...

started by leafo May 28, 2023

6 replies

4,065 views

Avarage_pizzatower_player

15 hours ago

StickySellingHow to host a bundle with open submissions using itch.io Jams

You may have seen some of the larger bundles that itch.io has hosted where we have an open submission period for partici...

started by leafo May 23, 2023

2,307 views

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StickyHow to leave a video comment or reply

You can embed YouTube and Vimeo videos directly into your comments and posts on itch.io. In order to do this, just paste...

started by leafo Aug 25, 2016

16 replies

6,547 views

DevRoids

33 days ago

How to report game pages the right way

Hey, everyone. A quick reminder: if you see a project that you have reasons to think is pirated, contains malware or oth...

started by No Time To Play Apr 23, 2022

3 replies

2,170 views

myuhinny

May 19, 2022

how to use the widget/embed for your game

if you want to put your game on your website or on an itch.io comment, usually you put a link to your game but there is...

started by Novai Games Studios Jan 07, 2022

4 replies

4,162 views

jfkEO1010etc

Aug 15, 2023

DevelopersHow to put Scratch games on itch.io?

OK, so i wanted to publish my games on another website (instead of scratch all the time) and wondering how to create a n...

started by kani Jan 02, 2022

2 replies

1,241 views

GrazianoBrothers

Jan 16, 2022

SellingHow do I make my assets visible?

Hello, I'm Talha! I can't see my published assets in the game assets section, even though I have filtered correctly. But...

started by talhagulbahar Dec 16, 2021

4 replies

1,030 views

talhagulbahar

Dec 16, 2021

how to get my gam popular

its really unpopular been unpopular for over year

started by Alex Dec 09, 2021

13 replies

1,371 views

Alex

Dec 27, 2021

Selling2D Game Asset Creation: Looking for suggestions

Hi everyone! I am getting into game dev, but coming from an artist perspective that is proving to have it's challenges...

started by Stoic Daemon Nov 25, 2021

661 views

No replies yet

SellingHow do i get people play the game and not only enter the page?

Hello. i have 13 game on itch, in most of the games i have a lot of views but a really small number of plays and downloa...

started by fire_soldier888 Nov 01, 2021

6 replies

1,416 views

nekozuki

Nov 25, 2021

DistributionGame Developer Name

Hey all. I'm about to publish a demo for my first game. But I'm stuck on the username I should use here on itch and othe...

started by DanielTsc Oct 27, 2021

6 replies

1,980 views

elis_o

May 26, 2023

DevelopersGame startup time is taking a lot for any game

Hi, as the title says any game I try to play it takes so long, sometimes it takes 30 mins for a 20MB game and sometimes...

started by Gabriel Ruiz Oct 24, 2021

5 replies

711 views

Gabriel Ruiz

Oct 25, 2021

How to promote my game assets

Hello! It's my first time selling a tileset that I made. I'm not done yet, i'm still updating it overtime. But I would l...

started by Lappdub Aug 25, 2021

6 replies

1,513 views

Lappdub

Sep 16, 2021

I intend to do a Game Jam for a cause--any suggestions to make it successful/pop...

Okay, I’ve played around with doing game jams the last year-and-a-half, even doing one with a prize (though something...

started by Zed Hanok Aug 17, 2021

2 replies

747 views

Sarainia

Oct 22, 2021

How to Itchfound?

started by Suspended Account Jun 23, 2021

1 reply

911 views

(Abandoned Account)

Jul 27, 2021

DevelopersBest ways to bring attention to your games without seeming annoying

Hi, lots of questions with people asking how to get attention to their games, so I decided to write some methods here I'...

started by Yana May 03, 2021

9 replies

2,022 views

MarthGDL

Jul 01, 2021

I want to request an CSS, What are the disadvantages?

I want to request a CSS from itch to create custom edges to content on my page and animated buttons there are any disadv...

started by fire_soldier888 May 01, 2021

2 replies

739 views

No Time To Play

May 01, 2021

DistributionProtect Browser Game?

Is there any way to protect a browser game from being downloaded on Itch.io? I was talking about it with a friend becaus...

started by CleanWater May 01, 2021

2 replies

814 views

CleanWater

May 01, 2021

What is the best way to make a good looking game page?

Hello! I've seen lots of different game pages for lots of different games here, and I wanted to ask the community: What...

started by chez_dev Mar 08, 2021

5 replies

1,495 views

virtualplaystudios

Jun 19, 2023

SellingUsing Payoneer payouts vs Paypal to earn more

tl;dr You can earn about 1.1% more with Payoneer instead of Paypal payouts, and it's quite easy to setup. Here is a tip...

started by Auburn Sounds Feb 05, 2021

4 replies

2,485 views

Aruma Studios

Feb 13, 2023

How do I get followers??

I have 7 games on itch.io and i want more people to play my games and follow me, right now i have 4 followers. can someo...

started by fire_soldier888 Dec 21, 2020

7 replies

2,500 views

leafo

Feb 12, 2021

SellingMoney for the Honey: A case study of pay-what-you-want pricing on Itch.io

Hello people! Late last month, I published an extensive write-up of my experiences with the first 10 months of selling H...

started by Cheeseness Nov 26, 2020

6 replies

1,376 views

Cheeseness

Dec 27, 2020

DevelopersHow do I promote myself as a composer and sound designer?

Hello everyone! My name is Ramon and I've been a composer for nearly 30 years now. I'd love to get into the game industr...

started by Ramon Solé Nov 13, 2020

3 replies

846 views

pengo mango

Nov 20, 2020

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