As many of you know, PlayIndies is still very much in its soft launch phase. That means we're continuing to fix bugs, polish the experience, and work toward supporting more devices beyond full-size desktop screens.
We honestly can't thank you enough for the support so far. Seeing so many of you actively using the platform, reporting issues, and sharing ideas has been incredible. PlayIndies has been a dream of ours for years, and it's been amazing seeing Antonio, our Product Manager, jump in and become just as passionate about building it.
If you haven't already, we'd love for you to join our Discord and share any bugs, feedback, or feature suggestions in the #site-feedback channel. We read every report and every suggestion, and many of the improvements below came directly from your feedback.
We're also actively working on responsive layouts so PlayIndies works properly across different monitor sizes and mobile devices. It's one of our biggest priorities right now, and we're looking forward to sharing more on that soon.
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We usually ship a few smaller updates each week behind the scenes, but today's release was a little bigger than usual, so we thought we'd share some of the highlights.
Thanks again for helping us find these bugs and shape the platform. Enjoy!
Improvements & Fixes
Fixed several small issues with adding games to your Playlist, including cases where some games wouldn't appear correctly.
Long game names and descriptions now truncate cleanly in smaller fields. You can now hover over the text to view the full content.
Creator Profiles now correctly update analytics and content when switching your Primary Platform between Twitch and YouTube.
Fixed several issues with Recent Content on Creator Profiles. Twitch Clips will no longer appear, and unlisted or private YouTube videos are now correctly hidden. (Sorry about that one. We completely overlooked it!)
Fixed pagination issues within the Recent Content section.
Added several new admin tools to help us manage the platform more efficiently behind the scenes.
Improved Creator sign-up compatibility with password managers, making it easier to save your login details.
Fixed numerous UI layout issues where text wasn't displaying correctly throughout the platform.
Creator Profiles with lots of genres now let you hover over the "+# More" tag to view the complete list.
Creators and Developers can now message each other once a key has been approved. Developers, these messages do not use message credits!
Updated the Join as a Creator and Join as a Developer buttons on the homepage when you're already logged in. They now take you somewhere more useful instead of back to the sign-up flow.
Developers can now optionally add "Key Claim Terms" to their game pages. Before claiming an approved key, creators will be asked to acknowledge these instructions. This can be used for embargo details, recording guidelines, important information about your game, talking points, or anything else you'd like creators to know before they accept a key.
Plus dozens of smaller UI improvements, typo fixes, and bug fixes reported by the community!
If you made it all the way to the end, hopefully at least a few of these fixes were ones you'd been waiting for. Please keep the bug reports and suggestions coming. Every report helps make PlayIndies better. ❤️
The PlayIndies Team
Keith, Kate, & Antonio
