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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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Free-software (alternative to) Itch? (lemmy.ml)
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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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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago (2 children)

I actually once started doing a front-end for a web app store but never finished. Since idk how to use git I never published it on Github/gitea/gitlab so its just sitting on my computer. I guess if anyone wants to use it they can just contact me.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago (1 children)

Actually, I'd like. How can I contact you??

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago

The GitHub repo is here: https://github.com/Zoe8338/retrosquare.github.io If you got any questions or just wanna talk about anything you can email me at [email protected] with the Subject as "Contact for RetroSquare Repo"