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Game Jolt just decided to open up hosting for everyone.

http://gamejolt.com

We're specialized to host freeware games, so signing up and placing your game on the site supports the community and helps everyone's games gets noticed.

Note that you can also post incomplete/work-in-progresses and release news, screenshots and files as they come, so if your game isn't even completed yet, you're still welcome to throw it up on the site.

We'd appreciate any feedback on the service. Thanks!

Being in the Christmas spirit, we've decided to extend the hosting to everyone forever. No more cap on the amount of developers that we'll host.

Note that Game Jolt is more than just a host, though. Game Jolt is a tool to publicize your freeware game and to get it out to the world.

How can you offer your support to Game Jolt for hosting everyone's games for free? Simple. Just sign up, put your games on the site, and link to them.

By the way, in the coming week we have some exciting features planned that we'll be rolling out! Check back to see.

Hope everyone had a merry Christmas!

Game Jolt

Thanks, ProgZmax!

I signed up, figuring I need some space pretty soon. 

Sounds good. We'd love it if you put up any games you've worked on. Any games we get are appreciated. You can also host soundtracks, game trailers, etc. Any files related to your game.

Also, anyone that actually signs up for Game Jolt and likes it: it would be great if you recommended us to friends or anyone else in the freeware game business. This thread won't last forever, and then it will be up to everyone who's signed up to get it out there.

That's nice of you to be thinking about other developers, Trihan. That's one of the reason I like the indie scene so much. I'll give you upload capability but keep the slots the same, this way you can put some stuff up but not take anyone's spot. You're able to put up incomplete games (even games that don't have files yet). And you can just post news articles and what not on the game's progress.

That sentence should probably read, "We'll host the first 25 developers that sign up..."

The rest would have to find hosting elsewhere, but the first 25 would be enabled to upload to our servers.

In truth, I would like to host everyone's files to give them a nice fast server for their free game, but I really need to see the response before I go around throwing too much money in to the project. So, to answer your question, we will never charge any developer for any use of the site. Game Jolt is and always will be free for everything.

Also note that Game Jolt is not just a host, but a way to publicize your game. You can post news, screenshots, etc. and get user feedback, all of which would usually require the developer building a dedicated site for the game. I would love to make a site that developers can use to push their games out to the world. So, any feedback is appreciated.

Thanks for your question. Sorry that the sentence was so unclear.

http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/yabb/index.php?topic=36361.0

Maybe that will help.

[We opened our hosting up to everyone! So, if anyone has a game to put up, we'll host it till the end of time!]

Hey AGS users, this is the lead developer of a new site that just came out called Game Jolt.
I was told I could post in these forums, so here goes...

I've noticed a lot of freeware game developers are having a hard time hosting their games, and so I wanted to give them a place where they could put their games up without worry of them every going down. No more broken links when people are trying to download your games.

Game Jolt allows developers to publicize their freeware games, post news, screenshots, files to download, etc. It's all run by the developers themselves, so you'll have full control of how your games are displayed on our site.

We'll host the first 25 developers that sign up, whether you want to use us as a mirror or the main download site. Even if you already have a host for your game, you could always add Game Jolt as a mirror. It's also good to just have exposure for your game across the net. After the first 25, new developers will have to host their game's files elsewhere.

We opened our hosting up to everyone! So, if anyone has a game to put up, we'll host it till the end of time!

It just launched, and as such it's in a very beta state right now. We'd appreciate any feedback you may have on the site, or ideas/criticism. If you find any bugs, you may post them here in the forum, or notify us at contact@gamejolt.com.

Web Site
http://gamejolt.com

Developer Sign Up
http://gamejolt.com/auth/sign_up/developer/

(it seriously only takes one minute to sign up and get going)

If there's any questions you have, or anything we can help you with, just throw us an email.

Thanks a lot,
Game Jolt