For sure! But as an indie dev building a 3d arena game (an action rts) we so badly wanted to publish on itch but cant. Its a great platform for certain genres was my point.
Still can do 3d it means. There are people doing pixel art so it shows there are people that want to do older game graphics but Yooka and Laylee had an N64 mode. There’s the following game
You are still asking us to signicantly downscale our design goals to accommodate itch. We are releasing our game free on steam anyway. So its not like we are hurting our community by choosing steam. But yes tonnes of games fit within itch platform and that’s awesome. Just not all game designs.
No for sure. But itch asks us to limit ourselves. Others here saying hey lots of reasons to stick with itch and to every comment I agree 100%. But we made a decision for a vision and itch’s model limited us.
Problem is itch has a very low max disk size requirement. They wont host games over 2gigs. That basically leaves you with graphic novels and 2d games.
maybe 2d games is what I am interested in
For sure! But as an indie dev building a 3d arena game (an action rts) we so badly wanted to publish on itch but cant. Its a great platform for certain genres was my point.
GameCube games were less than that.
As an indie dev let me just say wed rather not limit our game to GameCube graphics. No offense to that special era and esthetic
Still can do 3d it means. There are people doing pixel art so it shows there are people that want to do older game graphics but Yooka and Laylee had an N64 mode. There’s the following game
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2365810/Pseudoregalia/
And then you have Minecraft + all those games like it.
You are still asking us to signicantly downscale our design goals to accommodate itch. We are releasing our game free on steam anyway. So its not like we are hurting our community by choosing steam. But yes tonnes of games fit within itch platform and that’s awesome. Just not all game designs.
I wasn’t asking you to change anything. Just saying that 2gb doesn’t exclude 3d.
No for sure. But itch asks us to limit ourselves. Others here saying hey lots of reasons to stick with itch and to every comment I agree 100%. But we made a decision for a vision and itch’s model limited us.