Posted By
Luca
on 2008-05-07
09:31:19
 |  Re: Plus/4 World usage guidelines?
Back from workplace (aaah Firenze on bicycle is wonderful in springtime, there's a deep rose smell anywhere, and 23°C!), eating my spicy spinach special dish, I'm collecting these guidelines first, as first aid to the site:
- capitals usage in the entries names;
- don't leave an addon window without a title!
- no personal notes ("I like this one!" etc...) or transient referring ("this is the most recent demo he did"), hence we should use a different policy for "nice game!" "great game" etcetera too...
- a group or user has to be added when needed for a certain relevant release, or for at least (3) releases;
- filenames guidelines: for "Aaa Bbb V2.0", aaa_bbb_v2_0.prg (no capitals and underscores for spaces, no special chars like "."; images are gifs for screenshots, or jpgs for real pictures like hardware or covers; images should be: aaa_bbb_v2_0.gif (160x100 preview gif, indexed colours, bilinear scaling), aaa_bbb_v2_0_main.gif (main screen), aaa_bbb_v2_0_title.gif (title screen when needed), aaa_bbb_v2_0_01.gif (aaa_bbb_v2_0_02.gif aaa_bbb_v2_0_03.gif aaa_bbb_v2_0_04.gif) (gallery screens when needed); aaa_bbb_v2_0_map.gif (map) and aaa_bbb_v2_0_preview.gif (map preview when needed), aaa_bbb_v2_0_cover.gif (cover and other materials, max width 900 pixels, if bigger it won't be shown but still downloadable), aaa_bbb_v2_0_thumb.gif (cover's thumbnail, best is 64x100, at least respect height 100 pixels); if hardware, aaa_bbb_v2_0_thumb.gif is the thumbnail and has to be 120 pixels in its max side length;
- language and punctations at their best, please  ;
- respect the right folder, when you put something in!
- no plain links; if you aren't allowed to add links, please contact someone who can do it;
- if someone with higher access level than yours deletes or changes your entry (usually after some classic democratic contacts :D ) he shouldn't be pointed out as a crying mother or some sort of weird retroware messiah :D
Mmmm, lemme eat this stuff, and after I'll have some others...maybe...
Remember! The bigger work on this site lies unseen under its skin! Some examples from me: I'm collecting games'finals in .FRE format, allowing to see your prefer game's final directly on YAPE (did you see every game's entry should have its own GameEnding Type? let's contribute then!); thanks to Csabo, I did a little diskcovers gallery (tnx Chronos! tnx Unreal!), which's asking for new donations... |
