Small update, just pushed out some updates. You can read about it on the blog: http://itchio.tumblr.com/post/45281472959/first-updates
 
There are a couple more things I want to add before I start doing some hardcore marketing.

Small update, just pushed out some updates. You can read about it on the blog: http://itchio.tumblr.com/post/45281472959/first-updates
 
There are a couple more things I want to add before I start doing some hardcore marketing.

 
 
Leafo I have concern what happens if I buy a game and say if said developer pulls the the game from sale. What is protecting the guys that already bought the game?

Nothing, if you buy it you're expected to download it when you buy it! I think my general approach is to give the developer full control over everything. If it becomes a problem then I might reconsider my approach. This isn't like steam, it's not for managing an online library of games.

Nothing, if you buy it you're expected to download it when you buy it! I think my general approach is to give the developer full control over everything. If it becomes a problem then I might reconsider my approach. This isn't like steam, it's not for managing an online library of games.

 
I can see an odd thing happening if this get's popular like someone buys game and by little luck the dev pulls the game at the same time. I relly think there should be some delay in removal. 

Quote from: Happy HELLoween on March 13, 2013, 10:25:40 pm

Nothing, if you buy it you're expected to download it when you buy it! I think my general approach is to give the developer full control over everything. If it becomes a problem then I might reconsider my approach. This isn't like steam, it's not for managing an online library of games.

 
I can see an odd thing happening if this get's popular like someone buys game and by little luck the dev pulls the game at the same time. I relly think there should be some delay in removal. 

If you buy something using paypal it's possible to issue a refund. But like I said, if it becomes a problem then I'll do something about it.

MORE UPDATE

I added some basic analytics and graphs to the site!





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I noticed you built it using underscore.js. How do you like it? Have you used any other frameworks?

I like underscore, I don't really use it that extensively. The useful things for me are the templating system (it's bizarre that it has one but I use it), and a few of the functions like debounce, throttle, and defer. I could save some kb by not using it probably but oh well. I wouldn't really consider it a framework, it's just a bunch of misc utility functions.

I think the most important part of my frontend setup is CoffeeScript. I see CoffeeScript as a replacement for a lot of libraries because of it's syntax. You get a class system, a sane way to loop over things, comprehensions, syntax for binding functions. It's great. So I would recommend that over anything anything else. jQuery is also very powerful.

I don't use any frontend frameworks like backbone, or angular or the like. I have a pretty basic setup where a CoffeeScript class encapsulates the logic for a dom node that should have special functionality. It's straightforward, low overhead, and works well.

I'm trying to start spreading the site more. Does anyone know any other forums I could post it on where people would enjoy it? I've already done tigsource and the forum for the game engine I use, love2d.org.

gamejolt, gamedev.net, then i guess other framework-specific ones like pygame?

what do you guys think of the video on the homepage?  http://itch.io/home too much?