Hey guys,

Not sure if anyone's planning on entering, but it'd be great to have some Construct users! I think Construct's maybe one of the best tools to quickly prototype games out, so I could see some awesome things being developed.

Hmm... Looks like the Kongregate model. It does sound interesting, however I'm worried about legal implications.

It's fairly similiar, except it's across the board for all games and not just Flash. There's also going to be a few differences, which we will release once the closed beta is ready.

Interesting. I did not find info about rates, requirements or anything though.

Is there an API?

Could you elaborate?

There will be more information released within a few weeks when the closed beta starts. The lifetime rate for developers that sign up now, though, is 50% of the revenue.

We actually already have an API, which we've discussed a bit with Ashley about Construct using for their Created Games Portal thing. More information on how games can plug in to the API will be released soon.

It can be a big undertaking, especially for smaller services. It's always good to see indie developers getting something back though.

Thanks, Rich. We've got some other things planned too, so be sure to keep checking back.

Hey guys. This is CROS from Game Jolt. I posted a while back.

Anyway, just wanted to keep you updated with some new developments on the site. While we've hinted at it in the past, we're finally revealing some information on Ad Revenue Sharing on Game Jolt. This has usually been reserved for just Flash/casual games, but in our long fight to rid the world of greedy publishers, here ya go!

http://gamejolt.com/developers/ad-sharing/

Don't forget to mention Game Jolt's aggregation.

http://gamejolt.com/articles/

Toastface looks pretty cool!

I mentioned this to Ashley before, I think. Game Jolt offers an API for retrieving nearly every bit of information on the site. We'd be willing to host all the files, screenshots, soundtracks, information, etc. and the Construct site could just pull all the information in through the API and display it on their site. I'd even be willing to help code out the section on the Scirra site.

We even have plans for implementing a bug tracker, project forums/chatrooms, SVN/Git repositories, project Web space, etc.

Oops! I read Thomas' post wrong.

Nevermind about that.

Braid is being built with Construct?

Maybe the key would be to release shorter games based on single ideas kind of like Eversion or something.

Sorry for the late reply.

Kotaku is more geared towards gamers and commercial games, right? I'm not sure if they'd want to cover a story on an indie game hosting site...

We're trying not to release too much information about future plans on the site. However, let's just say you did hit the nail on the head with that suggestion. I guess I'll also say, ad revenue sharing is also planned. Freeware game developers should be able to make money from their games, too. We'd like to get a stronger base of freeware games first, though. There's many plans for this site, but things have to pick up a bit more first.

We're currently building out the site into two sections right now: Freeware and Open Source. More sections are planned for the future. The site will be a fully inclusive indie gaming source.

We're also working on an API so that other sites can pull our information. It's almost ready to be put into a public beta stage. I've had some talk with Ashley about using the API to pull Construct games off of Game Jolt to make a listing of all the games made with Construct. I think this would be very valuable to the community.

We want Game Jolt to be THE place for game developers to get their games out there. Whether it's a freeware game, an open source game, an indie game, flash game, game mod, whatever.

This may sound fairly pathetic, but we really need everyone's help. If anyone's interested in helping get the word out, just let us know. We need as many people as we can to get this into the hands of as many developers as we can. Only then can it take off. We could easily add some features into the site so that indie developers can sell their games, but if no one's coming, what's the point?

If anyone has any ideas of blogs that we'd be able to contact or forums or anything, just let me know.

Thanks! Glad you like it. And if you or anyone else has any features they'd like, just let me know. This site was made for you guys.

As for the glitch, I actually didn't touch anything on the site, so it must've been a hiccup with FireFox, or your connection, or even the server.

Thanks for notifying us of the bug. I may have a few ideas as to why that may happen, although I've never witnessed anything like that. The problem is definitely that the stylesheets are not loading for you. I'll check into it and get back to you.

Thanks for your interest in the site!

Hey, Shady. What version of FireFox are you using? I just tested it out in 2 and 3 and things seem to be looking fine.