itch.io has an amazing system for giving free copies of your sport referred to as obtain keys. There are a pair shortcomings with it although: the system solely enables you to create 1 key at a time, doesn’t offer you management over what particular information can be found, and whether or not exterior market keys can be found.

Often when working a promotion by handing out keys you’ll want tons of or possibly hundreds of keys out there to distribute. If you’re doing a Kickstarter you may have to generate completely different units of keys for the completely different backer ranges that give entry to the respective information. Now it’s very easy to do all of that.

Starting as we speak there’s a brand new Bulk Keys part on a sport’s Download Keys tab. In order to create a considerable amount of keys you create a bulk key group, a set of keys that each one share some widespread parameters.

You can create as much as 20,000 keys directly. You can set the efficient worth of the generated keys to manage whether or not sure particular person priced information can be found. You can even management whether or not any exterior market keys can be found to be claimed*.

After making a key group you may obtain your entire listing of URLs in a single textual content file prepared for importing or printing. The generated obtain keys use a subset of characters which might be simply distinguishable, in order that they make good candidates for printing out. Eg. l and I are sometimes ambiguous when printed, in order that they aren’t used for keys.

From the Download Keys tab you may hold observe of the teams you’ve created and see what number of keys in a gaggle have been claimed.

Enjoy!

* Be cautious about permitting exterior market keys. If the exterior market key on the respective website provides an itch.io key then it is perhaps attainable for somebody with a single key to maintain claiming as many keys as they need!