The developers at Itch.io have certainly built a decent webstore, and their new desktop client is pretty slick too. The Itch app is now on Greenlight, which is getting them lots of free publicity, as well as being quite amusing.
They posted it up on April 1st, which could have easily been put down to a clever April fools joke, but it seems it's not really a joke.
Seems it's doing quite well:
itch.io #5 in software on greenlight right now ???? https://t.co/XwL2VzfKDD
— leaf corcoran (@moonscript) April 6, 2016
You can see their greenlight page here.
You can get the app right now here. It works reasonably well, but it's still early days for the client yet.
I doubt Steam will let it get approved (since they are a form of competition), but who knows what they will decide to do.
A game store trying to get onto a game store, amusing times.
rustybroomhandle Apr 7, 2016
ElectricPrism Apr 7, 2016
Quoting: stssSo I'd have to launch Steam to launch Itch to launch my games?
View video on youtube.com
Just has I would love to have emulators, Kodi, Netflix and such others in the store. Basically what was needed was not having thtem as a 'game' but as a 'app'. But hey, if you have animation studios, game dev kits, programming IDEs and other software already on steam why not another game store. Also you would still be using steam seeing their game ads at launch so they'd win more than they would loose.
EDIT: Not to mention 1) the itch.io game would instantly get steam controller 2) you would get more DRM-games in steam that would could anyday download though itch.io and use on another computer and install offline if needed. ^_^
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But this video is totally ridiculous :P
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