itch.io week day 1: itch app & Ditto

Thanks for following together with itch.io week. As a reminder, every day this week we’ll be revisiting some a part of itch.io with upgrades and releasing developer interviews with members of the itch.io neighborhood.

itch – The itch.io app

Take a look at the brand new app web page

We launched the itch.io app December of final 12 months to make it simple to put in and run video games out of your account with out having to futz round with manually downloading. In case you have been round for the unique launch you will have remembered it being a bit of clunky. It solely listed collections, and lots of actions would open a browser with itch.io loaded. Properly no extra…

We’ve accomplished rewritten the app from the bottom up to offer a completely new streamlined expertise. Along with fixing a whole bunch of bugs and getting neighborhood translation for 20 languages, we’ve built-in a lot of the core performance of itch.io immediately into the app.

You might all the time seek for particular video games you wished, however now we’ve packed your entire retailer proper contained in the app. This makes it simpler to immediately add free video games to your library with out leaving the app, browse our storefront or use the randomizer to search out one thing new.

We’ve carried out this by implementing a browser immediately into the app. This implies you’ll see developer’s recreation pages precisely as they have been supposed, alongside contextual actions within the app’s toolbar for downloading, launching or shopping for. Take pleasure in a number of the lovely pages that creators have made.

The app can now obtain browser based mostly video games for offline play. Generally (particularly with recreation jams) a number of the finest video games are made for browsers. Now the itch app helps taking part in these video games in-app, even offline. Check out a number of the current Ludum Dare submissions to search out some nice examples.

Lastly, the app is now totally conscious of recreation updates. If any of the video games in your library want an replace the app will deal with it. The brand new downloads tab will summarize any issues the app is likely to be fetching. Even the app itself will routinely replace.

We’re actually pleased with the app, it’s been an enormous endeavor, and we hope you’ll benefit from the model new model. Obtain right here

BTW: if you have already got the app put in simply boot it as much as routinely replace.

Developer interview – Ditto

Ditto is one in all our favourite creators, and we’re actually enthusiastic about this subsequent recreation, GoNNER. He talks about a few of his experiences releasing his video games, and transitioning to a writer.

That’s all for Monday, see you tomorrow.