These are some of your best yet! I can somehow always recognize your work, even in a tiny zoomed out thumbnail on my phone, you just have such a cool, unique style.
I'm excited to hear OGA will be getting an update!
I like @chasergaming's design with the left-right scroll. I think it would be even better if you split up the latest art by categories, like you do on the "Latest Art" page. So instead of having 1 row for latest art, have 1 row for "Latest 2D art", another for "Latest 3D art", etc... Looking at amazon.com right now, that is similar to how they do it, where they have popular/featured content on top, then rows for different categories of products.
My thoughts on your numbered list:
1) I think starting the animation on hover would be great. It looks like a common way to achieve this is to have both a static and animated image, and use javascript to swap which one is displayed based on hover (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7473117/animating-a-gif-on-hover)
2) n/c
3) Using the 3-bars icon for news is a little confusing for me. Like @BenCreating says, I am used to that being a replacement for the top menu, especially in responsive websites, such that when the window is made too small to show the full top menu, it all gets hidden, and can be shown by clicking on that icon. It's not straightforward to use it for news.
4) I had never seen "Who's online" before, but I do look at the recent comments and recent forum posts whenever I visit the site, and would like that to be maintained somewhere easy to get to (prefereably not the scrolling marquee at the top).
5) I agree with all of this. I also really don't like how the previews span 100% of the window width, I really like having margins on the left and right, like is the case now. When I visit sites like amazon or youtube, they have pretty big borders that actually help me focus on the conent, rather than be overwhelmed like I am when I visit the new page now. (See point 8 for my thoughts on a left/right button)
6) I didn't really like the scrolling marquee, because I didn't want to have to wait to read all the recent posts/etc.
7) n/c
8) To help the layout be more uniform, I wonder if the upload page could have an image crop widget, such that the crop area has a fixed aspect ratio, but the user could position/enlarge/shrink it. That way previews whose proportions don't work well for the front landing page would all be cropped down (allowing the user to choose what part is shown), while the page for the actual submission would show the whole preview image. There could be some default crop for users that don't set it themselves. I don't think this would work well with the left/right buttons you propose in point 5 though, unless he user picks a crop for EVERY preview image they upload. It also might not work well with future site layouts, where you want to change the aspect ratio of preview images on the landing page.
Briefly, it lets you use the included assets, and/or any derivatives you create, from any asset pack in 1 non-monetized, OR 1 monetized project. Since the bundle contains many asset packs, you are allowed to use one pack in one project, and another pack in another project. But you cannot use one pack in multiple projects, without purchasing an additional license for each project.
Is the house pixelart in the background also CC0?
@MedicineStorm, it looks like it's based on these:
These are some of your best yet! I can somehow always recognize your work, even in a tiny zoomed out thumbnail on my phone, you just have such a cool, unique style.
@Ivan, thanks! DawnBringer32 is definitely a great color palette, and OGA has many other fine examples if you are interested!
@Disthron, your characters were just too cool, I got hooked!
Thanks all for your comments! @GrafxKid, thank you for sharing such a cool character, and one that was simple enough that even I could play with it!
I'm excited to hear OGA will be getting an update!
I like @chasergaming's design with the left-right scroll. I think it would be even better if you split up the latest art by categories, like you do on the "Latest Art" page. So instead of having 1 row for latest art, have 1 row for "Latest 2D art", another for "Latest 3D art", etc... Looking at amazon.com right now, that is similar to how they do it, where they have popular/featured content on top, then rows for different categories of products.
My thoughts on your numbered list:
1) I think starting the animation on hover would be great. It looks like a common way to achieve this is to have both a static and animated image, and use javascript to swap which one is displayed based on hover (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7473117/animating-a-gif-on-hover)
2) n/c
3) Using the 3-bars icon for news is a little confusing for me. Like @BenCreating says, I am used to that being a replacement for the top menu, especially in responsive websites, such that when the window is made too small to show the full top menu, it all gets hidden, and can be shown by clicking on that icon. It's not straightforward to use it for news.
4) I had never seen "Who's online" before, but I do look at the recent comments and recent forum posts whenever I visit the site, and would like that to be maintained somewhere easy to get to (prefereably not the scrolling marquee at the top).
5) I agree with all of this. I also really don't like how the previews span 100% of the window width, I really like having margins on the left and right, like is the case now. When I visit sites like amazon or youtube, they have pretty big borders that actually help me focus on the conent, rather than be overwhelmed like I am when I visit the new page now. (See point 8 for my thoughts on a left/right button)
6) I didn't really like the scrolling marquee, because I didn't want to have to wait to read all the recent posts/etc.
7) n/c
8) To help the layout be more uniform, I wonder if the upload page could have an image crop widget, such that the crop area has a fixed aspect ratio, but the user could position/enlarge/shrink it. That way previews whose proportions don't work well for the front landing page would all be cropped down (allowing the user to choose what part is shown), while the page for the actual submission would show the whole preview image. There could be some default crop for users that don't set it themselves. I don't think this would work well with the left/right buttons you propose in point 5 though, unless he user picks a crop for EVERY preview image they upload. It also might not work well with future site layouts, where you want to change the aspect ratio of preview images on the landing page.
For those interested, the license terms are explained here (https://www.gamedevmarket.net/terms-conditions/#pro-licence).
Briefly, it lets you use the included assets, and/or any derivatives you create, from any asset pack in 1 non-monetized, OR 1 monetized project. Since the bundle contains many asset packs, you are allowed to use one pack in one project, and another pack in another project. But you cannot use one pack in multiple projects, without purchasing an additional license for each project.
Great book and great music!
Beautiful tileset, and I loved hearing the War of the Arcane soundtrack being put to use in your demo video.
Thanks Antum! Stendhal is a great game, I'm so excited to know that something I drew made it in, and the character looks great!
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