I am making a game website thus I want to know what features would you want in the ideal gaming website? What do you love/hate about current sites like this and others? Do you like the layout? Could it be easier to submit games? Are there enough developer tools/resources? Is it too hard to get your games popular? Are you satisfied with this sites integrated ads program? If you are not what would make you use a competitive program? I just want general feedback from the developer community on what would make you submit games to my site instead of or supplemental to others. Thanks!
1. This is a bad place to put this... Armor games is a business and I don't think that there gonna act to kindly to someone talking about a competitive site.
2.Graphics wise.. figure out what color appeals people and what is popular (glass vectors) and use those
3. Dont use a lot of text... white space is king and DO NOT add a background that makes it so you cant see text or picture please
4. tell me when you have it up cause I would like to see it =D
1. I agree with you but I don't really care. This is a large part of the gaming community and I need their feedback if I'm going to make a successful site.
2. I gotta find a good balance of uniqueness and aesthetic. I agree: glassy vectors are sexy.
3. I won't add an annoying background. I want people to be able to see whats actually going on.
4. Will do. I'd love to have such a good member of the community. To be there at the start of a site means you will be able to shape the community. Theres a lot of stuff that hasn't been done well on gaming sites yet that I'm planning on doing and I genuinely think you will enjoy it
Also I addressed this to developers but you havn't submitted any games. Do you know actionscript? I'm planning on having a comprehensive as3 overview if you don't. Anyways I appreciate your feedback!
There are hundreds of gaming sites on the internet, and only a few of them really stand out (Kong, AG, Newgrounds, maybe a few others). If you are going to create a game website, you're gonna have to give it unique aspects that can make it successful, and not just another bland gaming site. For example, Kong has the achievement API, which is pretty addictive, Newgrounds possesses animations and stuff other than just games. And AG is popular because of its simplicity, and because Dan pays thousands more than other sites to sponsor games.
In conclusion, your site needs a unique characteristic that makes it worth visiting. It would also be helpful if you hired some developers to work for your site, like how John works for AG. Good luck.
Beast I appreciate your feedback. Game sites now, even the good ones you mentioned, are not really up to web 2.0 standards. They utilize: no collective intelligence, little to no customization, no intuitive (and helpful) data visualization, closed apis, small if any collaboration elements, no tutorial standardization if encouragement of teaching users at all, etc. I could go on and on. Think about all these things and more... I have and that's what I'm trying to bring to the table. Again, thanks
Alsage, the site will be have alot of flash. Flash is such a strong and expanding platform... I don't see any reason why sites that focus entirely on content made in flash never use it in their own sites. Excuses of poor spidering and long load times are just excuses from devs who don't like having to deal with flash's poor server integration (well I suppose these sites could use fms but idk the scalability on that). I'm using amfphp for this and I highly recommend it if you ever had to deal with php as serverside for your flash sites. Compressed binary data is lighting fast after all...
ummm have you ever searched up flash websites... They are really nice and there is a huge industry with flash websites... mostly for business and or band website type of thing. I do program in C# so I do actually make real websites also XD
