Game Section Updates: Logo, cover image and listing

[Marked 197]

Hi all,

 

 

Logos

Finally, there is now functionality to upload logos for your games in the game section. The  logo can appear in the both the public games listing and the cover, although the cover is optional:

 

 

The logo is good to have in the cover both for SEO and the ability of your visitors to click it to return to the homepage (if you've got pages enabled).

 

Cover image design options

There is now a bunch of options for your cover image, including the ability to tile it or stretch it to fit. As well as that, you can now enable a full-width cover image, for example: http://www.gdunlimited.net/games/rmu-staff

 

 

No more GDU default header

There is no longer our global default header at the top of every page. It is now replaced with a strip and our logo. I want you guys to really feel ownership over your pages, they goal is to make them truly their own website for your game. Pro users of course will have the option to remove any GDU branding.

 

Public listing design tweak

Not particularly noteworthy, but the design is brought more into line with the latest GDU design, and logos will now show up in the image instead of your avatars. So I really recommend updating your game pages with a logo.

 

In the future I hope to bring in sweeping functionality updates to the listing. This will mainly be a filter and pagination. The filter will allow you to sort games by [create date, update date, views, downloads, etc] + [engine] + [genre] + [age restriction]. So you will be able to combine each of these groups in filtering games. We have 48 published games, but only 13 with anything downloadable.

[Bob423 52]

Awesome! :D

[black mage 28]

Great! I'll start creating some logos now. :v

[Marked 197]

Yep, I'd be great if you guys could report any bugs / suggestions. These are minor things, but the priority is going to be on design flexibility and a blog system.

 

Currently working on this

 

[drago2308 4]

Awesome job, This will be great!

[black mage 28]

Reporting. Hide logo for game pages doesn't seems to work. I put the setting to hide but it still appear in top-left of my game pages.

[Marked 197]

Good spotting, thanks! Fixed. As for the downloads issue, I will get on that ASAP. It's a bit more complicated. I think I gotta recode it coz its just been causing error after error.

[ShinkuAura 15]

The blog Mark, THE BLOG!!!

WHY IS IT TAKING SO MUCH TIME FOR SOMETHING THAT SIMPLE!?!? :(

[Marked 197]

Its top of the list, shh.

[dolarmak 23]

nice stuff.