Hosting a promotion is highly effective instrument whenever you’re making an attempt to promote a recreation. It’s a great way to get individuals speaking about your undertaking, and encourage anybody who might have held off shopping for to make their buy. itch.io has two sorts promotions: Sales and bundles 

Sales & Bundles

itch.io added the flexibility for any creator to host a sale in 2013. Today we’ve received just a few updates:

All gross sales with a number of objects at the moment are bundles

When making a sale you’ll be able to embody as a lot of your initiatives as you want. In 2014 we enhanced the sale system to assist you to optionally present a single bundle worth to purchase all the pieces. Starting right this moment, all gross sales with a number of objects will work similar to bundles, even should you don’t present a worth. We’ll routinely sum up the objects and let somebody purchase them in a single go. 

Introducing conditional gross sales

If you will have a number of objects on the market on itch.io you would possibly need to reward present consumers with a reduction for proudly owning any of your earlier work. Today we’re launching a brand new characteristic known as conditional gross sales. 

On the sale creation and edit display screen now you can checklist initiatives that should be owned to ensure that the sale to take impact. Its not required to have an account to purchase one thing on itch.io, so we’ve built-in the purchase movement straight within the obtain web page. Account or no account, everybody can entry your conditional sale!

Redesigned sale administration instruments

In order to account for all these new options we’ve refreshed the sale creation and edit web page. Things are grouped the way you anticipate and replicate the brand new performance. We’ve additionally up to date all of the owner-specific instruments that dwell on the highest of sale and bundle pages.

Developer Interviews

Kenney is a developer primarily identified for his great asset packs and instruments which have enabled accessible recreation improvement for a lot of.

Daniel Linssen, also called Managore, is a prolific recreation developer producing video games of nice design primarily throughout recreation jams. He not too long ago received Ludum Dare 35.

That’s all for right this moment, see you tomorrow!