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How indiedev.games works, for people who play and for the studios that make the games.

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About the site

• Welcome to indiedev.games

  What the site is, and where to start whether you play games or make them.

• Moderation and appeals

  What moderators do, what the content policy covers, how hidden items and suspensions work, and how to appeal.

For players

• Playing games

  Every game runs in your browser. How to start one, what the labels mean, and how games are kept safe.

• Finding games: search, filters and sorting

  Search by title, tag, age label or engine, hide games that use AI content, and sort by newest, top rated or most played.

• Saved games

  Keep a private list of games to come back to, and find it again from the account menu.

• Following studios and games

  Follow a studio or a game to get one email when it publishes a new post. Who gets what, and how to stop.

• Reviews and ratings

  How to review a game, why each version has its own reviews, how the overall rating is worked out, and invitation-only games.

• Comments

  Comment on a studio, a game or a news post, reply to others, and what the rules are.

• Reporting content

  How to report a game, studio, comment, review, post or press page, and what happens next.

• RSS feeds

  Follow studio news and game devlogs in a feed reader, without an account or email.

• Languages: English, French and Japanese

  Use the site in English, French or Japanese, how to switch, and what is and is not translated.

Your account

• Your account

  Register, verify your email, and manage your settings: email, password, picture, public profile and notifications.

• Your data and privacy

  Download a copy of your data, delete your account, and what we count or store about you.

• Emails we send

  Every kind of email you can get from indiedev.games, and how to turn the optional ones off.

For studios

• Register a studio

  Create your studio page: name, description, logo, banner and links, and what makes it show up well.

• Add a game: details and images

  What to fill in for a new game: text, tags, engine, AI disclosure, window size and pictures.

• Upload and publish a build

  How to send your web game as a zip, what the checks look at, how versions work, and how to publish or take a build offline.

• Changing a game's address

  Give a game a new web address without breaking links, and what happens to the old one.

• Devlog and news posts

  Write news for your studio or devlogs for a game, add a cover picture, and schedule a post for later.

• Stats and insights

  See views, plays and where visitors come from, track your own links, and compare your games by tag, engine and AI setting.

• Send game events from Godot or Defold

  Count what players do in your game, such as levels finished, or a score or time, with a small script, and read the numbers on the Game Analytics page.

• Add a leaderboard to your game (beta)

  Keep a ranking of your players' best scores or times, set it up on the Game Analytics page, and send and read results from Godot, Defold or any web game.

• Review and comment settings

  Turn reviews and comments on or off for a game, and limit reviews to people you invite.

• Studio teams

  Invite people to help run a studio, what they can do, how to leave, and how to hand over ownership.

• Free tools and press pages

  The age rating helper, store page checker, press kit generator and COPPA and GDPR checklist, and how to publish a press page.

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