itch by fasterthanlime

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made by fasterthanlime for LD34 (JAM)
itch is a simple launcher for itch.io games

I made it so it would be easier to play other people's Ludum Dare entries — it's not a game, you can't vote for it,
but I did finish a lot of its features during the jam, to get it ready for rating season, so I hope you find it useful anyway!

You can read up on my journey here: http://ludumdare.com/compo/author/fasterthanlime/

========= Instructions ============

* The easiest way to test games is to first ADD THEM TO A COLLECTION from the itch.io website.
* All your collections should show up in the client (you can always click around and/or restart if one is missing).
* THIS IS PRE-ALPHA SOFTWARE, be gentle with it!
* Please report any issues here: https://github.com/itchio/itch/issues

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As a developer, all you have to do to make sure your app can be run with itch is:

* Have a single top-level executable in an archive (.zip, .7z, .tar.gz, .tar.bz2), or an InnoSetup/NSIS/MSI installer
* Tag your uploads properly (the little windows/linux/osx logo checkboxes when uploading a game)
* That's it!

Make sure to test that it launches fine for others within the app. For now, you can run itch from the command-line to see debug output.

If you're really lost, ping me on twitter with the URL of your entry, and I'll try to see what's up.

(Also, yes, this is an official itch.io project, and we'll be supporting it, adding bugs and fixing features.)

Have fun!

Feedback

cxsquared
14. Dec 2015 · 04:36 UTC
Really cool app. It's always nice to see good tools to play more LD games.
🎤 fasterthanlime
14. Dec 2015 · 07:59 UTC
After discussion, I disabled voting for this entry, see here for why: https://twitter.com/fasterthanlime/status/676298647236120576

Comments on itch are better directed at the github repo: https://github.com/itchio/itch (or 'Help => Report Issue') or the itch.io community forums
psychomonster
14. Dec 2015 · 09:17 UTC
Wow this sounds great, will have a look at it, after a duty shift at the offive after only 3 hours of sleep ;)
IAmSpencer
14. Dec 2015 · 11:24 UTC
good work man, it's cool to see itch games [along with my own] on a desktop client, and the installation process couldn't be simpler [although, I do hope you add html games support in the near future!].
chunkybrewster
14. Dec 2015 · 15:34 UTC
Love this! And love that it works with collections, which is something I never used on itch.io... until now! This will really help a ton with playing Windows entries in jams. Thank you!!!!
Atmog
14. Dec 2015 · 17:11 UTC
Does this work with .rar files ?
hexagore
14. Dec 2015 · 17:25 UTC
This is cool. I've made a special downloadable version of my own entry and added it to itch.io just to test it out. Works great! :)
🎤 fasterthanlime
14. Dec 2015 · 18:33 UTC
The app does not support the .rar format at this time, nor is it planned.

If you're looking for a good, modern compression format I recommend .7z instead!
Pusty
14. Dec 2015 · 20:36 UTC
wow this is awesome! I'm not sure why some of my games run some not (although it's awesome that they ran!). Also what if someone is releasing various versions? Well anyways can't wait to see more!
Gravity Games
14. Dec 2015 · 21:59 UTC
Huh, seems cool. I'm giving this a download, I'll try to get my entry working with it later.
5you
14. Dec 2015 · 23:39 UTC
Didn't all this existed, i'm gonna give it a try!
🎤 fasterthanlime
15. Dec 2015 · 02:38 UTC
0.9.3 is out, you can alt-click on a game's thumbnails to see a log if your game failed to install/run properly!
Ben Allen
15. Dec 2015 · 03:11 UTC
This is fantastic
bfmags
15. Dec 2015 · 12:56 UTC
awesome!
TaylorAnderson
15. Dec 2015 · 18:26 UTC
so glad this has finally come out. itch.io is a fantastic website and i'm so happy that its now a fantastic app.
01010111
18. Dec 2015 · 01:39 UTC
You have no idea how happy this makes me! I love itch.io!!! Great work :D keep it up!
dx0ne
18. Dec 2015 · 11:35 UTC
Just wanted to thank you a million for this. You rock!
Cherishing.Team
18. Dec 2015 · 16:10 UTC
+1 for awesomeness
Tanton-H2X
20. Dec 2015 · 04:12 UTC
wooooo!
Really Nice!!
Hope it for a looong time!
laaph
23. Dec 2015 · 01:20 UTC
Is there a way to change the directory that the games are kept at (specifically on OSX)? I might try trickery with symlinks.
local minimum
03. Jan 2016 · 15:12 UTC
Hi. I'd love "Random LD34 game" collection (working on tag). Maybe actually trending tag or something in general. It is a bit annoying to have tabs open in the browser as it works at present, but I guess this is just an interim thing. Great work though.