Castle Paradox

Rya.Reisender · **Snippy** Joined: 18 Jan 2008 Posts: 821

On the screenshot upload screen, please clarify that people shouldn't upload their title screen. It basically tells you nothing about the game itself... yet so many people use that. ._.

Actually an even better idea would be to make two screenshot upload fields and one is labeled "Walkabout screenshot" and one is labeled "Battle screenshot".

Calehay · Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2008 12:19 am Post subject:

People should be allowed to upload whatever they want that pertains to their game. If people don't download it because it doesn't reveal enough information about the game, then that's the fault of the person who uploaded the game.

But I think multiple screenshots are in the works.
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Rya.Reisender · **Snippy** Joined: 18 Jan 2008 Posts: 821

Well ok you shouldn't really force the player but a hint like "Screenshots of title screens are usually not very useful" would be nice if it doesn't exist yet.

Gizmog1 · Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2008 4:04 am Post subject:

Why? Is there any rule that your game has to be effectively marketed? If I were you, I'd come up with some other hints for getting your game downloaded (Not saying "lol, dis game sux" in the description, speaking The English would be good starts) and write an article about it for the wiki, or one of the different periodicals. I don't really think it's necessary to make it a rule for the site, though.

TMC · Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2008 4:20 am Post subject:

(Have a look at http://castleparadox.com/testproject.php?id=768)
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Rya.Reisender · **Snippy** Joined: 18 Jan 2008 Posts: 821

A bit glitchy, the screenshots seem to change when I move my mouse and the faster I move my mouse the faster they change. xD

TwinHamster · Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2008 5:37 am Post subject:

Rya.Reisender · **Snippy** Joined: 18 Jan 2008 Posts: 821

Oh it wasn't a joke, but now that you mention it, it seems related! However the thumbnails don't display at all for me (IE 7.0), so I didn't really realize that there are supposed to be thumbnails.

But sometimes the picture also changes when I don't move my mouse.

Also because the picture descriptions have different sizes, it gets really glitchy when you hover over another invisible thumbnail, which causes the whole screen to go down and might cause you to land on another screenshot with your mouse and then you can get lost in an endless loop of jumping up and down (until you move your mouse). ^^'

TMC · Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2008 7:23 am Post subject:

Oh that's right! The thumbnails are broken under IE, I mentioned this and I thought IM was able to fix it? I guess that must have been some other IE-only problem.

Yes, I suggested to IM that the page table not resize when the screenshot caption changes. It's nauseating, don't you think?
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Inferior Minion · Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2008 1:34 pm Post subject:

Rya.Reisender · **Snippy** Joined: 18 Jan 2008 Posts: 821

Yeah it works better now, but you also removed the picture description completely.

Also the elements aren't positioned very well when you use a lower resolution or resize the window. They will go ontop of each other.

no_shot · Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2008 9:42 pm Post subject:

What if you didn't want to give away too much and leave everything as a surprise?
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Rya.Reisender · **Snippy** Joined: 18 Jan 2008 Posts: 821

Giving out too much info is bad as well. I hate when I wanna play some game and then already get so much info on the game that I don't even feel like I could find anything new when actually playing it anymore. The screenshot should only reveal the graphics of the game, story-dialogue in the screenshots or battle screenshots where you can see a hero that you don't start with should be avoided.

Ronin Catholic · Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2008 2:01 pm Post subject: What of these?

What does this screenshot do for you?

What about this one?

And what do you think when you see this one?

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Rya.Reisender · **Snippy** Joined: 18 Jan 2008 Posts: 821

1. This game has pretty high HP values for an OHR game. Graphics are average and you play some furry hero.

2. This game looks pretty nice, reminds me of Final Fantasy, however the dialogue displayed destroys my hope in it being a serious game close to Final Fantasy. The "a" letter looks strange.

3. Joke Game.