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As far as I’m concerned, developers have been upping minimum requirements to force people to feed an economy that simply doesn’t require growth in the first place. The majority of software doesn’t justify at all the insane amount of RAMs it consumes, or features it demands. It is ridiculous that Notepad in 2025 takes even seconds to load on a modern computer.

Hopefully this nonsense will come to an end, as people are no longer able to upgrade, developers will finally start putting in effort in optimizing their software.

I say “hopefully”, but I don’t actually believe this will happen. So yes, I’m taking the “watch the world burn” route.

Yeah, I live in Ukraine. Take a guess.

The rate of garbage production increased over time, too, so old games amongst the good are always going to rise. Or, in other words, bad games grow asymptotically faster :).

I know I’m in the minority on many things, but the only games I play regularly is Minesweeper, Tetris, TF2 and Ultrakill, none of which were released in 2025. I never go out of my way to find games released now, I simply don’t care about that.

Really got your cult dogma down, haven’t ya. Nobody here said a thing against AI as a tool.

EVERYTHING THAT CALLS FOR CHANGE

Technology cannot call for change. The only things I see calling for change are Big Tech, who benefit monetarily from pushing AI trash, and desperate non-skilled people for whom AI is the only way to compensate for their stupidity.

AI won’t make you a game developer, not now, nor in a few years.

This is basically like asking how to draw. The answer is always the same: practice until you get the anatomy down.

Your homepage URL can simply be your game’s Itch page. Itch’s documentation answers your other questions: https://itch.io/docs/api/oauth

While you can make your game server the callback URL, the server will have no way to attach/pair the access token to the client that requested it. Because of this, it is more proper & secure to set the callback to 127.0.0.1 (localhost/loopback) at some super high port that’s unlikely to be reserved. This means the client will have to temporarily host an HTTP server, too, with which it can extract the token, and then send it to the game server from its own address.

That being said, you don’t have to set this up during development. Separate the game logic from the authentication, then add logging in through Itch at a later stage. This will really ease things.

Ideas cannot be outdated by definition.

❌ No, they aren’t.

DW, that’s what it’s there for.

On the other hand, I made a small error. In practice, I think running the HTTP host on the client is the only choice, because that lets the game server pair the API key to the client’s network address, whereas otherwise there would be a security risk.

I don’t see why you cannot trust OAuth. The API key gets passed in the callback URL you define when you register your OAuth application. This URL can be for an HTTP server your client runs, or it can be the same server that hosts your multiplayer games.

In any case, the API key can be verified by querying Itch. There’s no problem.

I’ve no idea what you mean. What’s the point in a copy protection system that didn’t protect games?

Of course I don’t want people pirating my games; I just don’t think DRM is worth the benefits.

If tech like SGX existed 20 years ago, it’s relevant hardware self-contained to a small chunk and not the entire board, and if it didn’t require a remote server to run 24/7 for eternity, then maybe I would’ve went for it. For multiplayer games only.

This is 100% some ChatGPT-using spammer who’s trying to build reputation before flooding his links.

Do the Haunted PS1 Collections count? Some good games came out of there.

I don’t know what you mean. For me, Hectic Toys took way longer to load.

A 6/10 from me would be a blessing. The more options, the more subjective they become.

I’d love to see an experiment with three options: Would Recommend, Would not Recommend or Would Avoid. It’s plain as day as to what they mean, compared to an arbitrary ratio like 6/10, and the only problem that remains is the requirement of good faith, which no rating system will fix.

Yes, but more so because they tend to clash in style, not because it’s used somewhere else.

Otherwise, I use third-party art all the time, e.g. OpenGameArt.

You were literally told why. If you continue denying this I would have to call you delusional.

You haven’t shown sufficient incentive to give true feedback for others. Instead you show an ulterior motive behind your reviews.

And even if they agree, your feedback will still be from developers, not actual, organic players.

There is nothing more open source than open source. Lemme guess, you also think “unethical forks” exist?

Itch had a related feature in the past, the press system. It was abused pretty quickly and ended up dying.

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Your question is pretty vague. Usually the story is already designed to fit a specific gameplay style (e.g. something like Ace Attorney clearly won’t fit an FPS game), so forget the plot; it sounds like you guys can’t work to design a game in the first place.

That is if I understood the issue.

my game has no cycles — the turn order just flows continuously

Could you elaborate? Do you mean all players move simultaneously? Otherwise this doesn’t really sound turn-based.

Use that experience to make better games.

You probably haven’t seeded your RNG. Do random.seed() when you first launch the game.

Big words for a basement dweller who’s been too busy jerkin off since 2019.

Come to my HOUSE and ILl show U

The most reliable hosting platform has always been yourself, IMO. Marketing is only marginally harder than it is on Itch or Gamejolt, considering neither actually advertises games, anyway.

Lol.

How do you know Itch wasn’t fighting back? Have you lifted a finger to actually help the cause beyond screaming at people who have no influence?

Itch is not in charge. You’re free to go there yourself.

Bruh seriously, what are people expecting from Itch? Invent a third payment card?!

100% agree, but this is ultimately a societal problem, not a technological one.

Even though I myself place some anti-AI features on my webpages, I don’t expect it to work indefinitely. It’s a cat and mouse game, same as adblocking or DRM, and the only way out of it is though spreading the message, something I don’t think is going to work anyway. The majority of people will always go the degenerate route, no matter the consequences.

I mean, it’s a bit lame but let’s face it, we all do it.

lol

By coding it?

There’s Arcane Cache. I only know about it because my game happened to get reviewed, though.

Well then sounds like you need to learn programming. Ain’t no game engine going to save you.

but I don’t know how I should follow a path in the multiple choice situation.

Could you be more specific? This doesn’t sound like an FMV problem.

If your choices are discrete and not too high in number then you can easily model the story as a tree of scenarios. I don’t know anything about your FMV game, but it could be as simple as assigning to each node a video to play.