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In our 2017 12 months in overview publish we hinted at updates to our homepage. Over the previous few weeks we have been incrementally pushing out performance and in the present day we’re able to let you know what’s new!

The itch.io homepage was historically a grid of video games picked by our crew. Though it was easy to implement, there have been many elements of itch.io we needed to advertise however did not have house for. Moreover, with round 200 new video games added per day, we’ve got extra builders than ever on the lookout for promotion. 

After some experiments, we have selected grids of various modules. The design is versatile sufficient that we will proceed so as to add new sections as we give you them. In case you have any concepts for modules you’d wish to see go away a remark.

This is what’s new with the itch.io homepage:

Darkish theme

For no good cause, itch.io’s homepage had a darkish colour scheme for a few years, whereas the remainder of website used mild colours. We have determined to unify the design with a constant header and matching colour scheme. It felt a bit unhappy eradicating the darker colours although. Many websites as of late present a darker choice, so why not itch.io! You’ll find an choice to allow a darker theme out of your account settings web page. The darkish theme is a piece in progress, so not all pages are transformed, however you will discover it obtainable for a lot of of our generally accessed pages.

New from these you comply with

Following creators is a good way to indicate help whereas being up to date on what they’re as much as. Should you’re not actively watching your feed chances are you’ll miss new releases although. We have added a brand new module on the highest that exhibits tasks launched by your followers that you have not considered but. Have you ever missed any new video games out of your followers? Go have a look

Contemporary video games

Our featured video games part, though up to date recurrently, has a restricted variety of slots and might really feel somewhat stale should you go to the homepage recurrently. We determined {that a} secondary part with video games added extra ceaselessly can be a good way to offer extra builders extra eyes whereas giving guests one thing new each time they go to. Contemporary video games are pulled from totally different collections created by itch.io customers together with curation from our crew. We hope that it helps put a highlight on attention-grabbing issues that will have in any other case been missed. (BTW, to devs, posting in launch bulletins might help you get noticed for this part)

Sport jams now simpler to identify

Earlier we had sport jams combined in with video games. That was complicated… Now you get a devoted row to see featured upcoming & ongoing jams.

Beneficial accounts to comply with

Following creators on itch.io is nice. It is so nice that we just lately wrote a information about why you must do it. It is going to make you cheerful, and the particular person you adopted completely satisfied. So as to get you to comply with extra we have added a module to the homepage with accounts you may be involved in. This record is pulled from tasks you’ve got beforehand interacted with ultimately (downloaded, rated, bought, and so forth.). If you have not adopted anybody but, give it a shot!

A everlasting spot for gross sales & bundles

Once we’ve beforehand completed site-wide promotions we’d insert a listing of attention-grabbing issues on sale. Looking back, there’s actually no cause to not have this module all the time obtainable since there’s typically all the time one thing attention-grabbing on sale! In case you have a developer’s account you will additionally discover sport growth assets as nicely. 

Extra advisable video games

The advisable video games part additionally received an improve: you will discover that we present extra video games without delay (no extra carousel) along with some steered tags if you wish to do some exploring by yourself. We have tweaked the algorithm a bit to guarantee that belongings you’ve already interacted with do not present up there.

I hope you benefit from the updates. We glance forwarding to including extra because the 12 months goes on.

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