{"assets":[],"author_link":"author\/leafo\/","author_name":"leafo","cat":"October Challenge 2013","categories":["October Challenge 2013"],"comments":[],"epoch":1381063500,"event":"","likes":22,"metadata":{"p_key":"81286","p_author":"leafo","p_authorkey":"0","p_urlkey":"290403","p_title":"Sell your game on itch.io this October and itch.io takes no cut","p_cat":"October Challenge 2013","p_event":"LD27","p_time":"1381063500","p_likes":"22","p_comments":"0","p_status":"WAYBACK","us_key":null,"us_name":null,"us_username":null,"event_start":"1377216000","event_key":"18","event_name":"LD27"},"source_url":"2013\/10\/06\/sell-your-game-on-itch-io-this-october-and-itch-io-takes-no-cut\/","text":"<p>Hey everyone,<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/itch.io\"><img alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone\" height=\"200\" src=\"http:\/\/leafo.net\/dump\/itchio-icon-200.png\" width=\"200\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I created <a href=\"http:\/\/itch.io\">itch.io<\/a>, the indie game marketplace. It\u2019s kinda like Steam but there\u2019s no client and it\u2019s completely open. Anyone can start selling a game immediately from anywhere in the world. People buying your game can pay what they want above a minimum price too.\u00a0Traditionally itch.io has taken a 10% cut of all transactions to pay for itself, but <strong>in celebration of the October Challenge itch.io will be taking no money<\/strong>. That means you get all the features of itch.io and you get to keep most of your profit. I say most because the payment provider (Amazon\/PayPal) still takes their cut. If there was a way to disable that I would :).<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019ve never seen itch.io before I suggest you check out the <a href=\"http:\/\/itch.io\/developers\">developers page<\/a> to see what it\u2019s all about. Some of the features it provides are free file hosting, game landing page designer, download and purchase\u00a0analytics, Flash\/Unity\/jar support and the ability to host your own indie game sale. If you\u2019ve created a game then you can use itch.io to quickly create a webpage for it where people can buy it (or you can give it away for free!). If you\u2019ve ever seen Bandcamp before then you can think of itch.io as the same idea but applied to indie games.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Thanks!<\/p>\n<p>P.S. I\u2019m always working on itch.io and adding new features, if you\u2019re interested in updates then you can follow the site on twitter:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/itchio\">@itchio<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/tag\/itchio\/\" rel=\"tag\">itchio<\/a><\/p>","time":"October 6th, 2013 12:45 pm","title":"Sell your game on itch.io this October and itch.io takes no cut","title_was_empty":false}