Get players for your game
The quickest way to get players for a game is to send your own, and the creator program gives you something back for it. Show our badge and your game gets a Verified creator tick and turns in the Spotlight. Make a video of a listed game, link its page, and we'll add the video there.
Three ways in
- 01
Show the badge
Put your game's badge on its own page or in its README, and the game gets a Verified creator tick, turns in the Spotlight, and becomes playable right on its page here.
How verification works - 02
Make a video
Play a listed game on YouTube and link its page in the description, and we'll add the video to that page, credited to your channel.
For YouTubers and streamers - 03
Share the page
Post your game's page where your players are. They can play it and rate it, and their ratings decide where it ranks.
What to share
How verification works
We check each listed game's play page, its GitHub README and the creator links on its entry. When one of them links to the game's page here, or shows its badge, the game gets a Verified creator tick next to the creator's name.
Games without the tick get checked every day, so the tick usually appears within a day of you adding the badge. Once it's there we look again about once a week, so if you take the badge down the tick goes at the next check.
The badge also counts as your permission to play the game in our player, right on its page here. Take it down and, from the next check, the game opens on your site again.
- You'll find the badge code on every game's page under "Are you the creator?", with HTML for a site, Markdown for a README, BBCode for forums and a plain link for itch.io. Find your game in the A to Z list or with search.
- Any link to the game's page counts, followed or nofollow, so how you link is really up to you.
- We read the page's HTML as it's served. A page that adds its links with JavaScript can hide them from us, so put the badge in the HTML or in the README.
- A game that can't run in a frame, or that shows ads of its own, opens on the creator's site either way.
The Spotlight
Verified games take turns in the Creator spotlight row on the home page, with a new mix every day. The row shows up once 3 games qualify.
A game in the Spotlight is labeled Spotlight. It keeps the same rating and the same place in every ranking, because rankings come only from player votes.
For YouTubers and streamers
Play any game from the catalog on video and put the link to its page here in the description. We look for videos like that every day, but YouTube's search can take a while to turn up a brand-new channel, so it's quicker to just send yours with the form below.
You only need the video's link, because we'll find the game from the link in its description.
Once we've reviewed it, the video shows up on that game's page under "Watch it played" with its title and your channel name, and it opens on YouTube.
- The video has to actually show the game being played. Up to four videos go on a game's page.
- If the form gives you trouble, you can always email the link to hello@gamesbyai.win.
- A place on our pages is exposure, so follow your platform's rules on disclosing it.
If you're looking for something to play, New AI games lists the latest additions, and Trending shows what players picked up this week.
What to share
Link the game's page rather than the game itself. The page has the play button, the screenshots and the rating widget, so a player who likes the game can rate it right away.
Under the player, "Share this game" has the link, a ready post for X or Reddit and an image to download. And if you submit your game through the submit page, you'll get an email when it goes live with share links, a ready post and the badge code.
Ask players to rate the game, not to rate it high, because the rankings are only useful if the votes are honest.
What we never do
- Sell a rating, a rank or a place in a list.
- Move a game up because its creator links here.
- Ask for a followed link, or for keywords in the link.