Itch is the modern newgrounds for me. Like a place i can go to feel something new for once. No bots, no algorithms Just vibes

@mrtruman4339

Жыл бұрын

It's the Newergrounds.

@getrdygames1146

Жыл бұрын

newgrounds addictinggames miniclip armorgames kongregate ebaumsworld trackmill, as a kid all i needed were these sites, oh and warcraft 3 lol

@brunitoknolastname69420

Жыл бұрын

the NEWESTgrounds

@jakefrenchflyman

Жыл бұрын

Itch and Gamejolt are the modern gamejolt

@jacobnicola5950

Жыл бұрын

PristineFloor

A problem I see with Itch is the lack of tooling for better searches. Example: searching for assets in the assets store is done by "tag", and using the search bar will default back to searching games.

@vgexplain

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, I agree. I had trouble searching for developers on the app since it always defaults for searching games. I had better luck using Google to find developers on the site.

What a wonderful corner of the internet that is. Like a glimpse of utopia! I'm well familiar with the pay what you want scheme, but I forgot about the revenue slider. When I put my own games on there, I think I'm gonna set it to 31%.

@vgexplain

Жыл бұрын

It's such a fun platform that really makes a lot of effort to let devs do what they do best!

@CHONK-Music

Жыл бұрын

Nice

@yektaagra741

Жыл бұрын

Nice

@Aethelbeorn

Жыл бұрын

Nice

@Aethelbeorn

Жыл бұрын

@@RaisedWhiteMist Should have waited till March 31st

As the artist of freelancer and on behalf of the team , thank you for this video. It is a great honor to be one of the examples you've chosen to show.

@vgexplain

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for being apart of FreeLancer! I really enjoyed the game mechanics (particularly jumping around with the lance) and art style of the game. Keep up the good work!

I wouldn't be half the game developer I am without Itch's open platform. This was a well done origin documentary, you have most assuredly earned a sub.

@RenderingUser

Жыл бұрын

same

It's friendly to adult content as well. Places for adult creators are shrinking every year an it's so nice to have a safe haven like itch.

@judeduval5724

Жыл бұрын

Yeah you have a point. Game jolt use to be friendly to adult games into last year or the year before. They decide that they won't host adult games anymore.

Wow! This is great on so many levels! And the whole story is short and sweet. What a wonderful little documentary. Good luck! Also i thought this was a channel with 600K+ subscribers. With that video quality you'll get it soon :)

@vgexplain

Жыл бұрын

I'm glad you enjoyed the video! And thank you for the compliments!

@rajder656

Жыл бұрын

i actually started using it a bit when they had a great bundle for ukraine 10 bucks you got a bunch of games, apps even d&d stuff

Wasn't aware of the founders background. He seems like a really cool dude.

While watching, I noticed that he says "Itch tries not to be like other platforms" but in the subtitles, it adds "especially Steam" at 5:41 lol

@vgexplain

Жыл бұрын

🤫

This is so professional I thought that this must be a massive channel. I hope you find the success you deserve.

2:29 I made the most rated game on a GMTK gamejam once! Still one of my proudest achievements, even though it wasn't the highest rated.

What a nice documentary. Good job!

@vgexplain

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching! I'm glad you liked the video 😎

This was a very well done video man, keep going with this quality and your channel will grow fast. (:

Its nice to see people like this helping out and being community-friendly. We need more people like these guys.

Brilliant mini-documentary- I assumed you had 100k+ subs but when I went to subscribe I saw you didn’t and was very surprised! Keep up the great work 👍

Itch is where I get 90% of the games I play. And they are all free because I mostly play Visual Novels

Got your Channel recommended, I'm really glad it did! After finishing the video i looked at your channel and I legit thought that u had so many subscribers ! Your production quality is great and the video was really interesting and fun to watch ! I subbed keep up the great work you will grow big !

I never thought the Itch backstory could be interesting, even though I love the platform. Great video! Subbed :)

I honestly thought you had over a million subscribers, your editing and delivery is on par with the big guys, I'm honestly looking forward to your uploads

Way to go man, this was very well made video and was very interesting

@vgexplain

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much! Very much appreciate the kind words!

...I'm really surprised at how many people don't know about Itch

itch is amazing, it is maybe not perfect, but due to how developer friendly it is, it's the best play for indie game developers

Nice to see this channel getting the recognition it deserves!

I've been on itch for quite some time now, but never really knew about its origins. Great, well researched video; keep it up! (:

On the other hand, complete freedom also means the lack of quality control...

They are legends! I've uploaded my game there and didn't encounter any problems or gate keeping or stupid algorithms obscuring my game in favor of others. I really wish that itch would be our main store and not steam or others.

that was a great watch .simple, informative and entertaining .Subbed ofc

That's a cool mini documentary! Good job!

Wow I didn’t even know that this existed.

@vgexplain

Жыл бұрын

Isn't it great? It reminds me of early internet flash games.

@drakesayshi3321

Жыл бұрын

How

As an aspiring video creator, I like your balance of B roll (game/web footage) and face/real shots. I’ve been trying to strike a good balance and I think you nail it!

Thought this was a way bigger channel, nice video quality keep it up!

@vgexplain

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!

I sneaked around the site once in a while, but never did I expect it to be this amazing

Enjoyed your video very much, thank you and keep it up!

Very nice video! The topic was interesting and also presented well.

I started hearing about itch through some videos a few years ago I'm glad it's a thing that exists theres so many unique games that even have far better quality and hearing that some pages have custom designs sounds amazing

One thing I love about itch is how fantastic it is for Tabletop RPG developers! It's not just digital games!

this video was great! that was lot of research

Great content 👍 subscribed!! Also love you’re hairstyle bro 😅

Good job on this documentary!

Loved this. Great for beginners over steam

I knew itch was awesome but I didn't know quite how awesome they are towards developers

Been using it a lot lately, now I’ll be using it more

thanks for the info!

6:50 It's Equality, not Equity. Actually an important distinction to make

Nice video! Definitely deserves more views than it has

great video! never knew all this about the platform

@vgexplain

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching! Glad you enjoyed it!

Amazing video!

DAMN! You're not even at 1k yet? This has to change. Take my sub, good sir!

Finally! i remember looking around if theres a vid about this

Really good video keep up the good work.

Great video man, make more!

yo this is so cool im so glad this showed up on my recs

Good stuff! Keep it up!:)

ive been using itch since like 2018 put up a few small games there. and participated in a couple gamejams ive always considered itch as the best game sharing platform for indie devs

this is like newgrounds just more modern and with gamejams!

I get a few games from Itchio every month, it's nice to actually own what I buy

That's a really amazing video.

You deserve more subs and views bro

Great work never heard the full story before.

@vgexplain

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching! 😎

under rated, good content

Great video! Love it

Love itch! Great video, hope to see your channel take off

@vgexplain

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for the kind words!

Great video!

that says equality, thats a different word than "equity" which is the word you used

Neat - Ludum Dare always brings down itch - Sumit your games early is not so easy in a jam. - Very good video - thx

This is a very good video

Nice one!

Interesting and informative 👍

@vgexplain

Жыл бұрын

Thank you! 😎

Hell yeah! I instantly thought of Bandcamp from the start of the video, cool to hear that the creator explicitly was trying to bring that openness to the indie gaming industry. Bandcamp has been an indispensible part of the independent musician ecosystem for as long as it has been around, awesome that itch takes it even further with the cut slider.

@polocatfan

Жыл бұрын

Bandcamp is owned by epic though

@nitro8416

Жыл бұрын

@@polocatfan It was not always

Whenever I make my games itch would be the first place it would go to before I released it on steam since unlike Steam at least Itch is more consistent on their policies on adult games.

well done. It's a great vid. I enjoyed it. I'm now a bit curious other websites like indiedb, coolmathgames, poki, crazygames and more

Good video keep it up

SeeIng the video quality i felt you had atleast half a million subs

A platform that actually gives a single iota of a fuck about their creators? Based.

thank you

subbed, thought was a 200k channel

I think you left a typo in your script; at 6:47 you said, "protests"

@captaincommando9839

Жыл бұрын

Should've been "peaceful protest"

@brandonmichael2111

Жыл бұрын

@@captaincommando9839 "Firey but mostly peaceful protest"

Without itch I would not have become a programmer I started off just making games for fun publishing them and getting feedback I also joined s couple of gamejams where I met a lot of people I still talk to 3 years later if I didnt get feedback and didn't meet those people I would have probably quit a while ago and wouldn't even have attempted the transition from games in unity to software development

It good stuff to learn how this company think outside the box. But there should be some bad apples of users use assets copy or reused brought content from brought sites that are not license free or permissions to resale example audios.

Nice vid

Subbed!

GOG is also very good

potential channel

cool video, but why is your microphone facing away from you

cool video. Never heard of it.

Facts bro

Great video, it's underrated. the only thing I could say is you're talking and giving information too quickly, I think it may be overwhelming. Also there's a small echo to your voice, you could speak more directly to the mic or change the room. Good luck with your channel, you're doing an amazing job ❤

Itch would be a lot better if they made a better text editor. The current one is quite limited and a little janky. At less from my experience.

That's where I put "the psychedelic quest"

I like the platform, though be careful, the games on there can be...interesting

Im an Indie developer and would love to collaborate!

Neat

Play Faxdoc and NostalgiaTree's games, specially Treetris, Ecila and Rev

commenting cuz i like the video

Now i want to see a video about gamejolt

What's the game @3 seconds in?

@vgexplain

Жыл бұрын

I think the game is called Strange Island, but sadly it is not offered on Itch anymore.

@musikSkool

Жыл бұрын

@@vgexplain Awww

I saw "baba files taxes". It must be great.

The enormous spikes in the amount of games uploaded just because Mark Brown lol

interesting

I hope this doesn't come across rude or insulting, but it's actually extremely hard to discern what you're saying sometimes. I'm not expecting you to teach yourself a whole new way of speaking more clearly, but I do suggest maybe getting captions done. For the most part I can hear everything you're saying, but there are times where you quite literally seem to slur a whole sentence together into 1 word. An example would be at 0:26 I'm not exaggerating it actually took me at least 10 (but less than 15) passes to figure out I think what you said was "Creators can take home as much as 100 percent" (I'm pretty sure that's what you said) what I kept hearing was basically: "creditors ken tag home as Munchausen 100 percent" (fairly certain that's not correct lmao) I do hope this helps, because I found this super interesting but I also had to work way too hard to make out what you're saying. I'm not sure why I seem to be the only person who had this to say, no doubt someone's going to insult me and think I'm being rude but I truly do wish success for you :)