Although we’re almost 10 days into 2015 but I’d like to take a moment to reflect back on 2014 for itch.io.A lot of great stuff came out, many games were downloaded, played, and bought, and tons of new features came out on itch.io.

Here’s the list for 2014:

December

• Updates for VAT
• Sale goals and sale analytics
• Updated classification options for game pages
• itch.io desktop app development picks up pace

November

• Game jams get lots of new features
• Managing purchases made easier

October

• The games feed!
• Follow your favorite developers and gamers

September

• Brand new tagging system
• Personalize game recommendation engine

August

• A new acceptable use policy
• Logged in uses get tools for managing their purchases

July

• Detailed purchase referrer analytics
• Bundles!
• Press system applicaiton
• Offer downloads with your web games

June

• Browse game jams
• Upload your games from Dropbox

May

• Manage submissions to game jams
• Host a collaborative jam with jam admins
• Browse your rated games
• Public domain field added to jams
• Game jams open to the world
• itch droid, an itch.io Android app

April

• Rate games
• Browsable collections
• Offensive content can be reported
• New content types for uploaded projects
• Link download keys to account
• itch.io press system

March

• Game jams get upgrades and new results page
• Give games as gifts
• JSON API

February

• Give a demo with your game
• Private sharable game pages
• Game page collaborators

January

• Email buyers
• Sell Steam keys
• New uploader
• Google Analytics
• RSS Feeds for browse

Awesome, definitely seems like a lot when you write it all down. I’m really looking forward to what 2015 will bring! I’ll have a second post shortly with some detailed analytics and maybe some speculation about where itch.io is going.

• Leaf

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