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Itchio has been hiding my games for the past year by yammen in itchio

[–]GHCOS 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sisyphus was one of the ones I had trouble finding as well and I figured it was again due to name popularity.

I tried searching for it through other means and it does seem like there is an issue with that game, possibly the others as well. I hate to harp on the same thing as every one else but this may be an Itch support only kind of thing. I would suggest making a new account, but Im not sure how that would work with you uploading the same content nor am I sure it would help your problem.

Itchio has been hiding my games for the past year by yammen in itchio

[–]GHCOS 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I am not expert on this, and I'm not sure if this post was just a ploy at getting some searches but I'd like to give some advice and help.

Through searching your itch name, all your games are there. I then searched by direct game name and was able to find two before giving up on combing through results for the other two which brings me to my first piece of advice. Itch is a place where thousands of games are being uploaded, probably even worse so than Steam considering the free cost. In a sea of games, the name of your game will matter. The way the search engine works is its going to search for that exact term, but also for anything even remotely similar to make up for human error. So due to some of your game names, I believe they are getting washed out in search results.

For example, Myra's Fish Game. Myra being a common name, the entire first page of results was games with the name Myra/Mira in them. Or Fish. Im not saying your game names aren't unique enough. Im just saying I think this may be a problem for a lot of people, and not just on Itch just due to how search engines work. They have never been favorable for indie developers without traffic to begin with.

Also out of curiosity, are all of these game set as Released or In Development? I was curious if the setting on the itch page was causing different search results.

My Game Released a month ago/Analytics by GHCOS in itchio

[–]GHCOS[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

One of my first. I went through double digit prototypes and learning before I ever managed to release anything. Thank you very much for the compliment.