How about a showcase?

[Traveler]

Hi Dean
I really like the look of the site. Simple yet effective.

Same here. It looks great :thumbup:
I'd only go for a slightly bigger and darker font and more anti-aliased buttons at the top.

[technomage]

Thanks guys,

I mae a few modifications yesterday, I increased the width of the test site to 800px and re did the content so it formats correctly. I also used a larger font and darkened the text.

The buttons along the top are just normal text, so I can't change those unless I render my own buttons.

http://www.infinitespace-online.net/DG/index.html

[WILL]

Hey not bad Dean.

It does have that magazine flair that the original DelphiGamer was going for before. Something that you might want to do upon launch is indicate it as 'The NEW DelphiGamer' so people will understand that it's the launching of a new concept and not necessarily the new version of this site.

I guess some people still think that PGD is DelphiGamer. Well ok, maybe in part.


Looks great so far though, hows the game profile page going to look?

[marmin]

If I had some finished games, sure!

[Joshas]

In my humble opinion the screenshots should be bigger, something like in Gamedev.net Image of the Day page or Opera's Speed Dial. The sidebar with image is unnecessary.

[Traveler]

I assume the game images are clickable, or at the very least the <more> link will continue to a page with larger images.

The image on the right isn't really necessary I agree, but it does add to the general feeling of the layout.

[jdarling]

Dean, how much thought have you put into what is going to actually be available to the users. I started working ideas on "paper" over the weekend and found that the data needs may be a problem depending on hosting overhead. Also, the purchasable plans will need advantages that make people (developers) want to sign up for them to help with these costs.

The design is quite nice and simple, but I think will need work with the menu and navigation. After all, you don't want to alienate any user from the site. While top/left primary nav is a standard I think it could be done better with top primary and right gutter as the advertisement/current events modules. The image on the left just grabs out too much attention and places a thought of 3D games into your head.

As I said before, if you (meaning who ever is driving this) is interested, I'd be happy to put together a discovery document, user experience practices, and a development document around the site. As well as do the appropriate research for payment integration and costs. I only do this day in and day out, so its not like I'd be doing something I've never done before .

Oh, and the Maybe option was put in place because some people might think they may use the site, but don't know as they haven't completed a game that could be placed up yet.

[technomage]

Hi guys

Thanks for thefeedback. The image on the left, it the origional artwork, I mentioned in my first post that it would be replaced with something else, but in keeping with the general design (any of you budding artists want to PM me some designs ?? Try and keep the same image dimensions, and the DG logo itself).

The DelphiGamer site will just provide demo's / freeware games for people to download. I am working on the hosting package at the moment with my hosting company who have given me very good service over the years. Once I get am idea on how much Bandwidth and diskspace I have to play with I'll post some proposed pricing options for people wanting to use delphigamer as a host to help pay the hosting costs, plus extra bandwidth. I'm busy talking over some of the finer details with Dom at the moment so I'll post the details when we are done.

If you don't mind offering your services that would be great, but don't spend too much of your spare time on it.

[IlovePascal]

Isn't the correct spelling 'definitely' (instead of 'definately' in the poll)? And I also noticed that when you write a certain number of posts, you become 'Kilobyte Conquror', shouldn't it be 'Conqueror'?
I didnt bother lookin it up, and since this is only my third language, i myt be wrong, but i thought id mention

[savage]

Isn't the correct spelling 'definitely' (instead of 'definately' in the poll)?

Definitely fixed.

And I also noticed that when you write a certain number of posts, you become 'Kilobyte Conquror', shouldn't it be 'Conqueror'?
I didnt bother lookin it up, and since this is only my third language, i myt be wrong, but i thought id mention

Also fixed.