Ready for day 2 of itch.io week? In case you missed, yesterday was in regards to the in regards to the new app.

The widget

Many recreation builders have a tendency include their very own pages for his or her video games. They’ve put collectively an attractive a touchdown web page with the prefect photos, gifs, and outline. Sure the itch.io challenge pages can do quite a bit, however nothing’s higher than a web page made simply the way in which you prefer it. Alright… now how do you promote your recreation on it?

The concept of an embedded widget on itch.io shouldn’t be new, we launched the unique widget approach again in 2013, and there haven’t been many updates since then. We’ve determined to offer it some upgrades to have a good time the second day of itch.io week.

The design of the widget can now be custom-made. You’ll discover a utterly new web page in your dashboard with many controls for adjusting the looks of your widget. You can change the colours to match no matter design you take note of. You may even copy over the colours you’ve already used in your recreation web page. Just head to the distribute tab of your recreation’s edit web page.

The widget is now responsive. If you may have particular measurement constraints for the place you’d prefer to put your widget then simply change the scale of the iframe. We’ve even launched a brand new tiny sq. mode for final area financial savings.

Check it out and extra on the brand new widget touchdown web page: https://itch.io/widget

Developer interviews

We’ve bought a particular deal with right now: two developer interviews.

Say good day to Robert Yang, an indie recreation developer, educational, and author, based mostly in New York City.

And say good day to Kyle Seeley. He launched his first unbiased recreation, Emily is Away, final yr.

Thanks for checking the submit out, see you tomorrow!