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Oh. Ok. Maybe it helps if you mention some of your interests in your call for fellow devs. Like social games. I would not be sure, if you talk about multiplayer games, or about games that tell a story with a social plot.

Itch's traffic is only like 30% US based. I do not know the ratio for the devloper accounts, so I will just assume it is roughly the same. This means access from all over the world. And the public comment section is not a place with a lot of reach. Even though the topic here got some traffic and made some people comment, you probably will have more reach, if you have some sort of contact info on your developer's account, where people also will see what type of games you make. Discord comes to mind. A lot of devs have a discord, so you might want to have one eventually anyway.

Another approach would be to seek people in another way and other places. Like search within any communities for people with the same hobby, instead of within the hobby. Or maybe there is a subreddit for this. (Or a whole conference...  ;-)

I am not english native speaker. With the merit aspect I meant, that it is the game and not the developer, which makes people play the game. The merit is in the game. It does not mean that the developers are without merit. It just means that their personality and any personal characteristics are of no concern and therefore unknown most of the time. 

I only noticed one black dev, but that was a male. And he is more of a singer that also trys to make some games. And even there I only know this, because he has a youtube channel. Otherwise I would not know such a thing.