In my day-to-day I get requested quite a bit about find out how to get began on itch.io. This comes from established builders trying to transfer their initiatives over to itch.io and new devs trying to add a mission for the primary time so let’s discuss find out how to get began on the location. 

From the highest I need to say that we now have a full set of documentation pages accessible that particulars the entire ins and outs of what we provide. This is your full information to the whole lot itch.io but it surely may be overwhelming for some of us. If you need to dive in to the nitty gritty and peek into each nook and cranny, then the Docs web page is the place for you. For everybody else, learn on. 

Getting began

Alright, first issues first: How do you get began on itch.io? Well when you’ve registered your account and have a mission you’d prefer to add you’re prepared to start out constructing out your web page. Are you making an attempt to construct a constant model throughout initiatives? Update your profile! Put in some data about who you’re! 

Once you’re executed with that, it’s time to make one other web page lovely: your sport web page! This goes to be what clients see first, and is your finest probability to get folks considering what you’ve constructed. We suggest together with the next in any sport web page: 

• A Credits part with everybody who participated to the mission
• Several screenshots of your sport that characterize what clients can count on
• Contact info in your followers / consumers
• If it’s a digital mission, minimal and really useful specs to run it
• A listing of controls and supported enter units
• A fast abstract of the story, if any
• A listing of options in case your mission is a software or a sport
• If the mission remains to be in improvement, its present standing and what’s deliberate for it.
• A listing of hyperlinks the place followers can discover out extra about your mission

Once you will have your web page constructed out it can save you it as a draft till you’re able to go stay. Finally, it’s time to set one thing up for buy. You can do that in one among two methods: you possibly can add recordsdata as much as 1gb via the dashboard in your browser (not really useful) or you need to use our glorious command line software, Butler. Please use Butler, it guidelines.

Building your group

Ok so that you’ve constructed your web page, uploaded your construct, and have set your web page stay for the world. Congratulations, what’s subsequent! Well, you could possibly get proper to work in your subsequent sport, or you could possibly unfold the phrase about the entire onerous work you have put into your current mission. One approach to garner curiosity is to incorporate a few of our group options in your web page. This might be feedback or boards. Either (however not each) may be enabled in your sport’s web page in your dashboard. 

Beyond that, it’s at all times good to let the world know that you just’ve launched one thing on social media or via our devlogs system. 

Other companies we provide

This final bit is type of a catch-all part. We have a ton of various options on itch.io (if you wish to find out about all of them, you possibly can at all times learn the docs) so together with full write ups of every of them could be quite a bit to learn, however among the huge ones are beneath. 

Patreon/ Kickstarter integration: Are you doing crowdfunding and need assistance distributing rewards to your backers? We may also help with that! You can hyperlink your Patreon account via your account settings, and we now have a dashboard the place you possibly can add your Kickstarter backer info via your sport’s web page. 

Discounting/bundles: At any level you possibly can set a reduction in your mission via your dashboard. This is a reasonably regular characteristic that we suggest of us benefit from tactically, however one thing it’s possible you’ll not find out about are Co-op Bundles. If you and a number of other associates/neighbors/web strangers all have initiatives accessible on the market on itch.io you possibly can promote all of them collectively in a bunch!