Nice site PetRat and Megaton...
A few suggestions:
1. When signing up, the fields and text are all out-of-whack, just needs to be re-alligned so that the start of all
the fields are on the same verticle line ( if you get me ) like:
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Nickname: |___________|
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Real Name: |___________|
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Your eMail Adress: |___________|
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Your Age: |___________|
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Current Projects: |___________|
For the High-Scores table's etc, what i suggest you impliment is a mySQL database.
The way scores would be added would be through a form;
* The user selects the game ( from a pre-set list of available games )
* The user is then told which files store the high-scores on their computer
* Make the user upload the high-score file to your ftp through a html uploader ( as part of the form )
* They click send which would gather their user details ( their member nickname mainly ) and the high-score file and send it in an email to you for authenticity check.
* Then you simply add it to the database ( would need to be done daily to keep up-to-date ) which is viewable through a High-Scores page for the users.
3. I also suggest you impliment a mySQL database of all your reviews, as this will allow easy searches and easier location of particular reviews etc when the site grows to have hundreds of reviews/previews etc...
4. For the format of the reviews, I suggest somethign like:
Title:
Version: (If applicable)
Developer:
Developer's Home Page:
Reviewed By:
Reviewer's Home Page:
Demo/Download:
Overall Score: ( including some sort of visual score, ie, 3 and a half little yellow stars out of 10 )
Quick Review:
Here would be a quick, simple, but not very informative review of the game/app.
It would mostly reflect the reviewer's views on the game/app and what they liked about it ( no negatives ).
Main Review: ( This would NOT have any personal views included, just the facts etc. )
There would be a general introduction to start with, rather like the Quick Review, but with more detail and some negatives.
The body of this would be set out in a sequential order, starting with the main, stand-out features of the game.
Then the playability would be iuntorduced.
New features or stand-out/original areas of the game would then be reviewed and commented upon.
The Pitfalls of the game would then be discussed.
After this, a general overview of the entire game, including level system and other such basic's of the game
would be discussed, giving both positives and negatives, comparing different aspects to other areas.
This "outro" so-to-speak would just be outlining the basics but would give ALOT more detail than the intro or the
Quick Review ( but ALOT less detail than the main body ).
Features:
A list of features would go here, all under sub-catergories;
* Game Play
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* Story-line ( if a game )
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2.
3.
* Feasability ( ie, how easy is it to play, and is it really slow, or really fast fps [ frames/sec ] etc... )
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3.
* Fun factor
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3.
* Misc Features etc.
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* Etc Etc
Reviewer's Personal Thoughts:
This would be a short paragraph of what the reviewer thinks of the game/app.
Rating/Scores:
Here would be listed the scores ( in a table, preferably ) such as:
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|Gameplay: | |
|------------------|----|
|Graphics: | |
|------------------|----|
|Audio: | |
|------------------|----|
|Lifeplay: | |
|------------------|----|
|Overall Quality: | |
___________________|____|
Screen Shots: ( just a link to a page of thumbnails for the game/app that are clickable to see full-size screen shots )
To submit reviews, I suggest a form that is split into parts ( each part being one of the catergories in the example structure i gave above ) such as;
Details:
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Title: |______________|
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Version: (If applicable) |______________|
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Developer: |______________|
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Developer's Home Page: |______________|
______________
Reviewed By: |______________|
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Reviewer's Home Page: |______________|
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Demo/Download: |______________|
Quick Review: ( An outline of what to include would be stated before the form field )
_______________________________________________________________________
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|_______________________________________________________________________|
Main Review: ( Again, An outline would be provided )
_______________________________________________________________________
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|_______________________________________________________________________|
Feature List: ( Again, outline provided )
_______________________________________________________________________
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|_______________________________________________________________________|
Rating/Scores:
______________
Gameplay: |______________|
______________
Graphics: |______________|
______________
Audio: |______________|
______________
Lifeplay: |______________|
______________
Overall Quality: |______________|
Screen Shots: ( Another HTML uploader would be used to allow the user to select, at max 3, screen shots from their
computer )
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Screen Shot #1: |______________|
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Screen Shot #3: |______________|
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Screen Shot #4: |______________|
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| SEND |
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Hope That Helps...
PS Sorry about the long post... It's just that I think that this site would be really usefull, and a huge success if you work out the bugs at the very start to prevent later disapointment if you have to re-design the entire system... Thanks...
Team EOD :: Programmer/Logical Engineer/All-Round Nice Guy