People are more likely to play a game when it's right in front of them. If you want a better idea of how much time was spent on your page, you could always try google analytics. Hello, how can I display numbers of how many people download my game on my itch. Log in Register. Indie game store Free games Fun games Horror games. Overview Submissions Results Community Community Game Jam community. How do I tell how many people have played my game?
What I did to accomplish this is fairly simple and would likely work for most anyone. Oddly enough, a physics professor from India was very actively sharing my progress updates with his students. This drove more traffic to them. At major milestones, I'll send a friend or two an e-mail linking to a good dev log entry. I also spent a lot of time talking with people in person who were interested and wrote down the URL for them to check it out.
I've sometimes thought of making URL cards to hand out. These would be similar to a business card, but with the URL for my game written on it, probably with a QR code for smart phone users to scan. One thing I would like to point out is that for me, doing all of the above also keeps me interested.
I built my game engine practically from scratch No, I do not suggest doing this, unless you really want to; personally, I enjoy tool building. It's been a long road with a lot of hard bumps along the way. Sharing those eye-popping animated gifs is one of the things that I really enjoy, because invariably, those posts tend to get triple the traffic and then lead to downloads.
Always remember: Eye Candy is your most important tool! Words may draw a few, but a well-made animated gif will likely say a lot more in the first few instants than anything you write. Some may see the animation, but will never read your words, so wow them right there!
If you get nothing else from this post, always remember the importance of Eye Candy! Itch is not designed to satisfact developers, is designed to satisfact players, if the algorithm see that your game have a very low conversion rate will stop promoting it. You game page looks good, but, a conversion rate is too low. You probably will need to draw people outside from Itch. My game page and demo has been up for 11 days. I am promoting it on 5 gaming forums, twitter, instagram and many subreddits.
I am showing GIFS, screenshots and playthrough videos. But still, my game page has only 60 views and 13 downloads. Right now, it's getting only 0. It takes a while to really start getting views on your games. What I noticed helps is getting a nice dashboard of your games on itch.
I update my page quite o lot by organizing my popular games and hiding or moving my less played games to the bottom of the page. On average I get 20 views a week, but it took me 14 games and 10 game jams. Log in Register. Indie game store Free games Fun games Horror games. How can I get more views and downloads on a game? Viewing posts 1 to DiamondLabs 1 year ago.
What is marketing? No Time To Play Moderator moved this topic to itch. Dark Dimension Moderator 1 year ago. Hi DiamondLabs, Congratulations on finishing the game!
This is because nobody knows you, and its difficult for random users to trust a random dev. Keep making games, and this will change. Pick some websites, and start posting your progress there consistently. People will see you are putting effort into it, and some may even start to follow you. Pick a place to keep your devlog. Share feature requests and general feedback with other members of itch.
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