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itch.io upgraded their app to support Steam shortcuts, a headless mode and linking existing downloads
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Fubarberry sopuli.xyz Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz
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Scio lemmy.world Scio@lemmy.world
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I never thought this day would come!

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ChocolateFrostedSugarBombs lemmy.world ChocolateFrostedSugarBombs@lemmy.world
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Holy crap this is awesome!

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RedSnt ♾️🦋♂️👓🖥️🐧 feddit.dk RedSnt@feddit.dk
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I've been out of the loop. I didn't know Itch.io had an app, and by the look of the github page they have linux releases going back to late 2015.

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bluesquid0741b aussie.zone bluesquid0741b@aussie.zone
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I've been out of the loop. I didn't know Itch.io had an app, and by the look of the github page they have linux releases going back to late 2015.

It's never been a great experience, it's been a few years since I used it but it had a bunch of issues and itch didn't seem to care much about fixing it.

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GregorGizeh lemmy.zip GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2023-08-15
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Whats the point of itchio though? As far as i know it is just an alternate place for mods.

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Fubarberry Moderator Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz
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Whats the point of itchio though? As far as i know it is just an alternate place for mods.

Itch.io is a game store, specifically popular with indie devs.

There's no fee to publish a game on itch, and devs can choose what % goes to itch if they choose to charge for the game. They can also sell games where they let the customers pick what price to pay. Overall it's very dev freedom focused and is very popular for smaller/experimental games and game jams.

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GregorGizeh lemmy.zip GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip
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Itch.io is a game store, specifically popular with indie devs. There's no fee to publish a game on itch, and devs can choose what % goes to itch if they choose to charge for the game. They can also sell games where they let the customers pick what price to pay. Overall it's very dev freedom focused and is very popular for smaller/experimental games and game jams.

Ah that sounds a lot more interesting then, ill have a look. Thanks for the info!

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Björn swg-empire.de bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de
Joined: 2023-07-08
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I've been out of the loop. I didn't know Itch.io had an app, and by the look of the github page they have linux releases going back to late 2015.

The trouble with the Linux support is that you could only download games with Linux versions with it. And I think only those that have been uploaded in a very specific way.

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Björn swg-empire.de bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de
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I wonder if the headless mode has anything to do with Heroic's upcoming itch support. Heroic would only add stores if they could utilise an external cli program to use it. Not sure if that is still the case.

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RedSnt ♾️🦋♂️👓🖥️🐧 feddit.dk RedSnt@feddit.dk
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The trouble with the Linux support is that you could only download games with Linux versions with it. And I think only those that have been uploaded in a very specific way.

Oh, that's not so practical then. And no way to get it to download the full installers like GOG Galaxy can do?

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Björn swg-empire.de bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de
Joined: 2023-07-08
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Oh, that's not so practical then. And no way to get it to download the full installers like GOG Galaxy can do?

Maybe they've changed it by now. Heroic is also working on itch integration, so I'm holding out for that.

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Selfes reddthat.com Selfes@reddthat.com
Joined: 2023-06-09
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The trouble with the Linux support is that you could only download games with Linux versions with it. And I think only those that have been uploaded in a very specific way.

Not exactly true. If you have Wine installed on the system, it can also run Windows Games on it. Unfortunately, it doesn't support Proton, but they are working on umu integration. But yes, it needs to be marked correctly as Windows or Linux app...

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