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Itch.io is a website for users to host, sell and download indie games. Here you can share games, make reviews, upload updates of your games or even share them!

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I love the cool DIY vibes on itch, but it's troubling how much commercial closed-source tech you see on there. Also itch itself is not a free-software platform. They encourage gamedevs to share their games, but themselves don't share their software... just as hypocrit as evil Github!

My questions are:

  • is there a free-software itch-like platform? maybe even a federated one where you don't need a centralized server?
  • is there an itch-like platform dedicated to free-software games?

I remember there were a few projects like that YEARS AGO in the early days of Steam but i don't remember the names and i don't know how successful they were.

Anyway, are folks from this community interested in this?

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[–] gary_host_laptop@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 years ago

https://github.com/itchio/itch

itch is libre, if you don't like it for whatever reason there is also GameJolt but they aren't that much different.