An excellent sport discovery system offers somebody on the lookout for video games a variety of strategies to slice up video games to seek out one thing attention-grabbing. In the previous itch.io solely allow you to browse video games by platform, style and worth. itch.io at all times let builders assign tags however by no means gave the sport gamers a straightforward method to discover them.

You can now browse tags from the brand new Top tags web page, ~170 chosen tags:

http://itch.io/tags

You additionally would possibly discover new associated tags sections on a couple of different elements of the positioning that can assist you discover attention-grabbing tags.

I made a decision to spend a while trying via what tags builders have been giving their video games and seen they have been means too disjoint! There have been plenty of cases the place individuals would use variations of the identical tag, like zombie and zombies. I made a decision to curate a grasp record of tags whereas nonetheless protecting the free-form enter for the issues I couldn’t consider. I additionally merged tag synonyms wherever applicable.

The new tag pages comprise a formatted title, typically an outline, and the video games. Additionally I’ve made it straightforward to maneuver to adjoining tags with a associated tags record. (Try out video games tagged Atmospheric)

Because I need to be the tag pages to be good pages to seek out out extra a gaggle of video games, I’ve made it so common customers can recommend updates to the outline of the tag pages.

For builders the brand new tag picker has an autocompleter to recommend a few of the predefined tags to ensure your sport will get the suitable visibility in the suitable tags.

If you’ve acquired any concepts for extra featured tags I’d love to listen to them.

Enjoy!