{"id":3690,"date":"2017-10-27T22:47:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-27T22:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/308530"},"modified":"2017-10-27T22:47:00","modified_gmt":"2017-10-27T22:47:00","slug":"itch-io-adds-support-for-distributing-games-to-patreon-backers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2017\/10\/27\/itch-io-adds-support-for-distributing-games-to-patreon-backers\/","title":{"rendered":"Itch.io adds support for distributing games to Patreon backers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re a dev with an interest in\u00a0either Patreon or Itch.io, you should know that the latter is\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/moonscript\/status\/924021029273444352\">gaining\u00a0a new\u00a0feature<\/a>\u00a0(inside the &#8220;Distribute&#8221; tab of the Itch.io dashboard)\u00a0that allows for devs to distribute their work directly to Patreon backers.<\/p>\n<p>Notably, this should streamline the work of providing games, game dev tools, or other creations to Patreon supporters, and give devs who use Patreon a more centralized\u00a0way to keep track of how many copies of a given project have been distributed and how many have been redeemed on Itch.<\/p>\n<p>Itch.io founder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/blogs\/author\/LeafCorcoran\/831423\/\">Leaf Corcoran<\/a> showcased the new feature on Twitter today and made it clear that, for the moment, it&#8217;s still experimental; devs can start messing around with it now, and Corcoran <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/moonscript\/status\/924022126578774016\">aims to flesh it out<\/a> and provide documentation in the near future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re a dev with an interest in\u00a0either Patreon or Itch.io, you should know that the latter is\u00a0gaining\u00a0a new\u00a0feature\u00a0(inside the &#8220;Distribute&#8221; tab of the Itch.io dashboard)\u00a0that allows for devs to distribute their work directly to Patreon backers. Notably, this should streamline the work of providing games, game dev tools, or other creations to Patreon supporters, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3691,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3690\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}