 So as a an idle game developer to the game developer in general and someone who teaches people how to make an idle game I feel like that this is necessary to address my channel as of the recent news on congregate They are pretty much just going down the shithole. Okay, so Yeah, they released his post for July 1st of July and I'm not gonna read it because it's boring and basically Summit up most chat rooms are gone Some of our I'm starting like the synergism that one's staying Idol pins that one's gone. So yeah, that will start around July 22nd New people will no longer be able to publish our games on congregate and that is a huge That's a huge red flag when it comes to new indie devs uploading their games for on a free platform Okay, so that just really sucks because this site is so old and that has brought a lot of people into this community in general and it's it's sad to see this go, but if you want to Check this out. Just simply so you can just search up congregate important announcement and you should find that pretty easily But yeah, here's the post. I'm not gonna really Read this and they're also locking a bunch of forums. I guess and just that kind of stuff My opinions on it like why do they why do I think they're doing this? I think that's it can't be money related honestly because They they a lot of people are playing on the site like see 27,000 people this is starting to drop like crazy because people are starting to move their games to different platforms and Stuff like github and people are just not liking this in general and So this it's definitely not money. Okay, I think it's the it's the fact that flash and webGL Is just at a con it's just at a state where it's people aren't really wanting to use that anymore and it's starting to fade away and Yeah, people are starting to use their desktop games now. So Okay, so where to go next if you want to publish a game somewhere online I would go maybe go to personally. I've never used armor games But I've heard you can see there's tons of idle games in their category. So I don't know how to I don't know how it works there, but this may be a good place to check out Make if you're making game with Java script, okay So github is a very good place You can even host your webGL game on github but again webGL is not that good to mess with and I hate building to webGL and it's just so like outdated and you need he needs to kind of do something like this where They can compile into a game like anti-matter dimensions on Github where you can host it on github like this But there's that so you get those two options. You have cartridge. So I like cartridge. It's very easy To get started there. Another one is itch.io. Okay, so this one's these two are pretty Unknown, which is the issues that people say cartridge is dead But I'm I don't know I like cartridge like obviously it's like a free indie indie dev version of steam and There's no upfront fees in order to publish your game. So I think that's just really nice You actually get some mediocre downloads. See my crypto clicker is on here like barely any advertising except for like on the Well, let me go to my analytics except for like desolvers plaza which gets lots of visits and Using the certain tags. So I get some pretty good downloads here and it's been like maybe a few months Yes, it's May. It's doing pretty good I'm pretty satisfied with how many downloads it gets from like literally just not promoting itch.io because I really don't okay I just provided the link in my downloads on discord and the plaza's desolver website So I do that and frickin my crappy idol population game has over 4,000 downloads Again, I just have that one YouTube video and some other development related stuff. So I mean it's free So if you don't if you're not wanting to pay any fees, there you go There are some platforms people are willing to download cartridge player game Just because some people are not willing to pay the $100 fee for steam as I did and that's why I want to publish my game as well now It may seem silly to you or to some people Why would I publish on itch and cartridge when I can just only do steam? Well, again, it's really nice to have in a multiple platforms because you can reach even if it's just a little bit more audience, right and New people too. You want to gather new people into your community, right? It's not gonna be just steam and Twitter iOS You're gonna find some new people on itch.io and cartridge that you won't find on these other platforms too Even though even though those are the most common platforms You'll still find that some of the new people just because again, there's less games on here Or not, I mean not less games, but I guess just not like hits I guess we can say and little bit less competition than there is on steam steam is a really high competition because there's a lot of game titles up or high quality game titles on there and Honestly itch.io and cartridge is so easy to manage. It's just why not It's I think it's worth the little effort that you need in order to publish here. Okay, so anyways, thank you guys for watching It's not a normal video I just wanted to put my two cents into the situation and if you have any questions make sure you leave me down Leave me a comment down below Like this video if you enjoyed subscribe my channel if you're new and turn on those notifications. Anyways, I'll see you guys in the next Let's see. What's the next video? I think tomorrow. I'm gonna do Android building for the Unity idle game video Or I'll game tutorial series. So if you are interested in that make sure you tune in to that. Anyways, see you there. Bye