itch.io has at all times been about constructing the perfect instruments for the creators that add their work. itch.io carried out pay-what-you-want pricing from day one to let recreation creators make extra by way of the generosity of their followers. We pioneered open income sharing, a system the place sellers can select their lower to {the marketplace} — one thing utterly unprecedented. We’re continually on the lookout for methods to ship the message that we really care in regards to the success of these utilizing itch.io.

itch.io week isn’t solely us saying “hey, check out these features,” but in addition “hey, thanks for supporting us, we built this for you.”

Here’s a recap of the week to this point:

For day 4 we’re highlighting some extra characteristic together with just a few updates:

The dashboard

The dashboard is a well-liked web page: it’s the place you go to investigate cross-check your tasks. You can see views, downloads, earnings, and extra. It’s additionally the place you go to create one thing new. It’s essential that we make it as environment friendly and streamlined as doable for the perfect expertise. 

We’ve redesigned our aggregated graphs to make the most of a stacked bar graph so you possibly can see what objects are getting essentially the most views and downloads with out having to go to every of their pages. Just hover over the field to see what numbers have been for that specific factor.

We’ve added a brand new analytics tab to the principle dashboard. Although the graphs within the sidebar are good for seeing the efficiency of all of your tasks, they’re just a little cramped. The new analytics web page offers you a a lot wider image and allows you to scroll by way of time. This web page additionally consists of different aggregated knowledge like referring web sites, and a desk of the all-time numbers in your tasks.

Although not up to date throughout itch.io week, it’s nonetheless price mentioning that the purchases tab was additionally lately enhanced. We added graphs that may show earnings or amount teams by days or months. Additionally there’s a brand new particulars web page the place can see all the pieces about a purchase order and generate invoices.

If you’ve obtained any concepts how we will make your dashboard expertise even higher ship us a message: @itchio

Community

itch.io’s neighborhood instruments provide you with a technique to rapidly connect a dialogue to any venture web page. They are available two kinds: feedback and message boards. Both are very highly effective, you possibly can average posts, elect moderators, deal with bans & blocks, report posts, subscribe to matters, and so forth.

Adding feedback or a message board couldn’t be any simpler: simply decide which one you need in your recreation’s edit web page.

Creating a neighborhood is simple however getting folks to make use of it may be just a little trickier. In order to assist resolve this we’re integrating communities into extra locations.

Discussion boards at the moment are straight embedded on buy and obtain pages. It’s simple to see what others are speaking about, and even create a brand new subject:

When we first launched communities for recreation pages we inspired folks to go to a devoted neighborhood web page to view the matters. That’s not crucial, as the message board subject listing is now straight embedded into your venture’s web page. Just like feedback, they’ll take the theme you’ve chosen in your web page.

Developer interviews

Arielle Grimes is a recreation developer who creates interactive experiences specializing in psychological well being and queer expertise.

Mushbuh is making a colourful recreation referred to as Burrito Galaxy 65.

See you tomorrow for our large new characteristic!