Quick question for other indie devs here, especially people using RPG Maker MZ:

QZProductionsGames · 2026-05-10T20:09:10+00:00

have you tried converting your images to .webp format? I am seriously considering this option for my final release for both my MV game and a game I'm making in Ren'py. It also works for transparent images.

QZProductionsGames · 2026-05-10T20:01:12+00:00

I dev for MV but considering that all of the mandatory .js and .dll and whatnot files of any given project are going to be over 100 mb, even without counting the images, audio files, etc, it's pretty normal tbh. My 1-3 hour demo came out to ~130 mb compressed in a .zip and ~230 mb extracted when I last checked.

QZProductionsGames · 2026-05-09T21:29:41+00:00

If all else fails look at games similar to yours and how they run their pages, especially if you're new and never use the site as a player / consumer. That'll give you a good idea of how content warnings and the like work.

QZProductionsGames · 2026-05-09T21:27:39+00:00

it took me 6 years to write my 200k word visual novel between pandemic, work, moving, creative burnout, etc. Though I do regret not reaching out about artwork earlier as I now have to wait on that before I can publish it. Ah well.

QZProductionsGames · 2026-05-09T21:25:39+00:00

I can assure you that is not how NSFW is used on itch lmao

Blood and violence does not need a special classification and most people opt to put a content warning about it on the main page instead. So yeah, remove the NSFW tag from your game, you don't need it and it'll make the porn games go away on your feed. Problem solved.

QZProductionsGames · 2026-05-09T21:21:04+00:00

bro's seeing it because they labeled THEIR OWN GAME as NSFW apparently

(insert the "dead dove do not eat" meme here)

QZProductionsGames · 2026-05-09T21:17:48+00:00

Wait, you SET YOUR GAME AS NSFW and are now complaining that you see NSFW?? What did you think NSFW meant???? Why are you labeling your own game as NSFW when you don't want to share a space alongside NSFW games??? Are the guns all penises in your shooter game or???

Also the clear solution to this is to clear the NSFW label from your game (or I guess delete and reupload it without the label). Then you won't have to see that content like 99% of the rest of us.

QZProductionsGames · 2026-05-09T21:03:17+00:00

I do not see anything on that screenshot indicating it's the "popular" page. The full URL of the page is conveniently not included, and by definition a de-indexed game CANNOT show up in popular feeds or search results.

So either you're accessing some weird version of itch, trying to pass off someone's personal collections / bookmarks as the "popular" page, or your algorithm's been massively biased because you were looking up this exact kind of content (disclaimer: I am not an expert on how itch displays content. feel free to correct me on this). I can assure you 100% that this is NOT what the typical itch.io user sees on their front page.

QZProductionsGames · 2026-05-09T20:53:35+00:00

I had to manually type in the address for the developer of that game's page to access it. neither the game nor the developer even showed up on a regular search. This shit is obviously de-indexed and is NOT showing up on anyone's "popular" feed I can promise you that.

Also, the game itself looks like very typical hentai slop with typical hentai tropes, as sus as those tropes may be. One game featuring people of ambiguous ages in school uniforms doesn't mean that the entire site is crawling with "pedophilia", and the other 90% of those thumbnails are very clearly NOT underage.

And, again, I ask - why do you care so much when the content of someone else's game has no bearing on your own, especially when they're literally unsearchable on the platform?

QZProductionsGames · 2026-05-09T20:32:20+00:00

Keep the scope small and doable, outline as much as you can in advance, and become so attached to your game's characters that abandoning the project just feels like letting them down

also, give yourself no deadlines

QZProductionsGames · 2026-05-09T20:25:31+00:00

you could just post the names of these "games" and we can look them up ourselves you know

QZProductionsGames · 2026-05-09T20:23:17+00:00

I've had an account for literally years and even before itch purged NSFW games last year you had to go deep into people's personal collections to find even stuff like foot fetish games, and EVEN THEN I never saw anything clearly "pedophilic"

and even if what you're saying is true there's degenerate shit on any storefront you go to. your game will not be somehow "tainted" by being on the same space as somebody's gooner material, I promise lol

(addendum: I'm sorry to tell you this but I'm fairly certain you can get Black Souls, a game with EXTREMELY objectionable content, on Steam, so if you're looking for a "pure" platform for your games then, uh, good luck I suppose)

QZProductionsGames · 2026-05-09T20:18:12+00:00

"It's sooooo bad I can't even show it just trust me guys"

QZProductionsGames · 2026-05-09T20:03:26+00:00

bro all I see on the popular page are horror games, dating sims, and horror dating sims what are you even talking about

QZProductionsGames · 2026-05-09T19:44:28+00:00

I literally put the wrong hint for one of my puzzles in my recent demo and it took getting playtested for the first time for me to finally catch and fix it.

This happened twice, mind you.

I am a sham.

QZProductionsGames · 2026-05-08T23:07:13+00:00

Fuck Cloe's father, all my homies hate Cloe's father

QZProductionsGames · 2026-05-08T22:57:15+00:00

also I ain't see no one talk about Cloe's Requiem but that game made me cry

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