Hi all. As mentioned a while back, we’ve been tinkering with the layout of some of the pages here. I don’t want to raise anyone’s expectations too high – yep, you’re still looking at a rather basic wordpress layout. However we hope that your experience reading this site will be improved just a little.
First up screenshots in revews have been enlarged. You can still click for an even bigger version but now you have a better idea what the game looks like without having to break out of the review.
Also the review menus now contain a brief description of the game along with a screenshot. I was a bit worried that, if people were just presented with a list of titles, some of the more obscure items might be overlooked.
There have been a few other bits of tidying up but those are the most important items. If anyone has comments or suggestions go ahead and let me know. I mean, given the pace I work at, it’ll take me three years to implement any new ideas, but I promise to at least think about it and say “hmmm maybe”.
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Just to add that it all took a little bit longer than we imagined, because once the new layout was sorted (a process towards which I contributed nothing) there was the small matter of individually going through all the reviews and reformatting them.
This almost certainly comes under the heading ‘stuff no-one needs to know’ but a few other things I feel duty-bound to note are:
– We’ve been perspective-correcting DOS shots to 4:3 for a little while, but for some reason we decided this would be a good time to update all the older reviews. I did mine in batches and made sure nothing looked too weird, but in some cases the source material wasn’t ideal.
– Speaking of which, for a short time in 2007-2008 my screenies captured with Fraps did some weird glitching, which didn’t matter when we just had smaller pics, so I just ignored it, figuring it would never be an issue. But now it is an issue, albeit one that I’m going to continue to ignore for the sake of ten or so reviews.
– The old layout meant that screenies from genuine widescreen games from the mid-late 00s onwards always looked really small, which meant that I tended to use 4:3 shots even for fairly modern games where feasible. Obviously now the widescreen pics look much better and I look like some kind of 4:3 obsessive.
– I’ve combed through all my reviews but not really updated any galleries and extras. Yet. This will be done… in time.
– Also a final thanks to The J Man for heroically providing some larger screens for Star Trek: Captain’s Chair. And to Stoo for not only doing most of the actual work on the site, but also pointing out that someone had fixed Space Hulk: VOTBA for modern machines before I started buggering about looking for the disc and relevant old hardware. (I’m still terrible at it, incidentally).
(Oh, and as mentioned in the previous ‘Under Construction’ post, these changes are all to the desktop site – if you’re on mobile, that’s all unchanged – and probably will remain so).
August 15, 2023 @ 9:44 pm
Looking good! And incentive to go back and re-read everything!
August 17, 2023 @ 3:25 am