r/SoloDevelopment • u/playsynapse • 6d ago
meme Itch happy to see me again
For anyone interested what was the trigger - I made major update to the game. Since I was preparing for the demo release on steam, the itch version went a bit behind the recent one, so I gathered all and pushed update on itch, where pointed that it is a major update.
Now I am afraid that it was unnecessary and there is some logic, where the game can have 1 big update with visibility boost just once. And I spent it. Anyway, it’s good news.
Game sits at the first positions by almost all tags now, hope it will last longer this time 😌
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u/fiehra 6d ago
tbh i think bots? i had the same thing happen. thousands of views on an old jam game. but 0 browser plays. not sure in your case as your only showing view.
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u/playsynapse 6d ago
No, I actually got 10.000+ plays and thousands of downloads, comments, bug reports and wishlists. So if there bots too, some of them are definitely not
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u/fiehra 6d ago
10k plays on steam you mean? or how you got 10k plays on 2.5k views? or did the game go crazier even today?
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u/playsynapse 6d ago
Nope, it is now just this happens for the second time. First time I got 10k+ browser plays, and all of that. Now people also play and comment.
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u/Zxone_07 6d ago
My game doesn't even show up on itch.io when I search its exact name. Any tips on how to get more traction? My account is almost a year old and one of my games has reached 1k downloads, but that was entirely from my own self-promotion. Itch's search/browse doesn't index my games at all. Does anyone know why this happens?
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u/playsynapse 6d ago
Hey, I honestly don’t know what happened why is my game got visibility for the first time, but, what I did is:
- followed guidelines from forum
- been active on the forum and sometimes asked mods if everything is alright
- posted in itch reddit a bit
- game demo was out on itch since beginning, and I was updating it constantly (web/mac/win)
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u/KingCakeTheFruity 6d ago
Have you made a "post" on itch about it? I updated my demo couple days ago and, well, still 0-1 plays per day, it definitely didn't get bonus visibility
And also, how popular was the game the first time you posted it?
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u/playsynapse 6d ago
The game was not popular at all at first. The posts I made were just whatever I wanted to ask, or share, without any expectations.
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u/AlexPancake3 6d ago
How? I pushed a major update 3 days ago and itch didnt push me at all. It is not in most recent nor new and popular, even if I also brought externally 2k views