2019 vs 2018

Hey guys! We missed to post the stats about 2019 Vs 2019!
We was distracted by this month that is going very good!
So...Here they are!
The 2019 was very positive! More new users, more page views and more sessions!
What's the main reason? Probably the social networking and the good games!

As you can see Facebook is still the social #1 for our traffic, also because on indiexpo there are a lot of pc games and Facebook is used by "pc users".
YouTube helped us thanks to several big YouTubers that played several games uploaded during the 2019 on the website!

We are continuing to grow up and a lot of users visited the website typing directly " indiexpo.net" in the URL bar!

They know it and they like it! And we continue to improve it with new features, new games, new developers and new events also this year!

The 2020 is here!

Happy 2020, everyone!

Let's start right away with a nice devlog to talk about what's been recently added to the site!

Then, at the end of this devlog, we will also talk about what's coming next!

First off, let's talk about the goals we'd set ourselves last year and what came of them.

• More events like Egg Hunting -> No Egg Hunting(s), but we had more games with a leaderboard system!
• More exclusive games, FREE as always! -> DONE! And the last one for 2019 was Ultimate Reality
• Continuining to improve the Recommended Area in the Home Page (it's very important for us) -> DONE!
• More games with online functionalities -> DONE!
• Improvement of the News Area -> DONE! Now it's easier to add images and youtube videos, since a few weeks ago we improved the Markdown system!
• More comments on the latest games -> DONE! Thanks to the recommendation algorithm 
• More ways to use indiepad -> DONE! With new buttons and the indiepad screen for mobile phone- read more below!

What did we add this year?

• New logo!
• Area Events & Challenges -> Added the 'Latest Champions' list
• (Inspired by Reddit) Icons when clicking on the Download button if it contains an external link or file name
• When adding links to images, gifs and youtube videos in the comments and in the News Area, the website will display them automatically!
• New ANTI-SPOILER funtion in the comments (and in the news)
• Online status in User Pages
• Subscribers lists (like Instagram's) 
• Indiepad: new Home button (to go back)
• Improved the Search Area's SEO
• Added a chart exclusive to recently uploaded games (less than 30 days), only visible to developers, so they can see how their games are doing, compared with new ones
• Trending Games tab
• Improved the Ukranian and Polish translation of the website, thanks to @Wolod and @Soulrender

What have we done lately?

• Indiepad on the screen when you play an indiepad game on your phone!
  
  
• In the homepage you can now see the 3 latest indie games to gain over 1000 players!
• Players List (only for the games' authors), accessible by clicking on the Player Counter on your game's page!
• Rating filters. Now you can only rate a game if you already downloaded it, your account is more than 10 days old, and your level is higher than 2.

Coming soon?

• Website available in yet another language: Persian!
• "From Dev To Dev". A series of technical articles written by more experienced users by looking at more promising games. The first will be by @FrancescaDeVivo, the artist for Fantastico Studio's games
• Making the indieconsole even better
• New blog posts about a few statistics of the site, comparing 2019 to 2018

What are our goals for 2020?

• Focusing on the players
• Supporting more developers or small teams putting their games up on Kickstarter
• Making user experience on the mobile site different from the desktop site's
• Raising the site's 'gamification'

Will we be able to do all this? Keep following us and we'll find out together!

We did know how to keep a promise. 2018 Results & 2019 Goals

Just one year ago we made a list of our 2018 goals.
What happened?
Let's see it together!

• To improve the Suggestions Area ==>> DONE & DONE
• To Increase the visibility of the website in Russia, China, Korea and Japan -> DONE. We are one of the most visited website about free games in Russia, we're linking our website with a game dev University in Korea and were uploaded a lot of Japanese games.
• To left the developers earn money ==>> DONE
• Virtual Memory Card & to improve the indiepad ==>> The indiepad is improved, now you can use it also on TV using a Chromecast devices. The Virtual Memory Card is still not online, also because several developers are not interested about it.
• Games in Exclusive ==>> DONE

And we added also a lot of new features!

- improved the Notification System & Area

- improved the Badge System for Devs and Gamers

- added Comments Area, Supported Games, Records and Suggested Users in the User Page (to show the latest games commented by the User)

- Score System Completed (now with Notifications and the author can delete the Fake Scores)

- website translated in Finnish (thanks to Virva), Ukrainian (thanks to quizcanners) and Malay.

- added the Date in the Comments

- over 30 Games that support the Score System!

- added new filters in the Advanced Search (Online Games and Games with Scores)

- AMP pages for the User Pages

- improved AMP game pages also with the suggested games

- now the Charts show only the games uploaded/updated in the last 6 months

- Language problem on the website? Now you can select your language on Settings Area!

- Improved Mobile View!

- Added the Adult Filter, that you can switch (on/off) in your Settings

- bugfix, bugfix, bugfix

- Are you playing an online game and received a notification? Now you can move the mouse on the top and open the Notification Area, no exit from your game! 

- New News Area

- New Stats in your own Game Page

- Improved the Game News Area, with buttons to follow or download the game, easily and fastly

And now?

We want to improve the Player-Experience.

Few time ago we make an egg-hunting and it was very funny! Were uploaded a lot of very good games and we helped a lot of developers with their Kickstarter Campaigns!

So, for the next year the word is MORE... those are our Goals:

• More Events like the Egg Hunting!
• More exclusive games, always FREE
• To Continue to improve the Reccomanded Area in Home Page (it's very important for us)
• More Games playable online
• To improve the News Area
• More feedbacks for the latest games
• More way to use the indiepad

It's hard, but we can do it!

Together we can do great things!

indiexpo staff