Game info panel on downloadspage - suggestions

eMTe · Post by **eMTe** » Fri May 12, 2006 1:32

I'm not sure if this issue was already discussed somewhere, so I'm giving some suggestions of features that are missing in majority of freeware sites.

1. Link to author's/developer's site. Small developers not always host their games, so it would be nice to let people know more about them, their other projects and such.

2. Mail to author. This will need permission of course (I take it on myself), but will give the chance to say sth nice to people who put so much effort (and sometimes money) in making a game. And maybe author would want to post on forum about his game. This would be absolutely great imo... And of course, he would maybe want to put our banner on his site...

Maz · Post by **Maz** » Fri May 12, 2006 2:45

Excellent idea!

Open source is great thing IMO, and creators of open source software should be really thanked (and at least mentioned), since that's about all they'll ever get from their hard work!

Maz · Post by **Maz** » Tue Jun 27, 2006 17:18

Advancing report.
I've been working on this page. It seems we might eventually get something ready

Unfortunately MrG. has had life outside of internet. So he has been forced to devote some of his time to the persons he loves/who loves he. I do not mean to say that we do not love him in here, but well...

Anyways, he has had some issues reducing the time he has had to work with this site, so development has slowed down slightly. Surely I do hope he would stop living outside of internet, but it seems he likes his real life too much to give it up

generally things are going quite well, I'm slowly re-learning php, and I'm quite hopefull

eMTe · Post by **eMTe** » Fri Nov 03, 2006 12:59

As for remakes.

Good idea would be to add link to review/general info of original game (on MobyGames, Gamespot or such - it must be review site, not abandonware site).

If there's place for this.

Post by **Chroelle** » Fri Nov 03, 2006 18:50

Could be an idea... That might give people an idea about how close to the original the game is...
If you look at a game like Bruce lee and the remake we have, there are almost no difference, but if you then look at Master of Magic and Leylines there is a world of difference....

eMTe · Post by **eMTe** » Mon Nov 06, 2006 15:07

Well, I was talking about faithful remakes like Bruce Lee, not games that are spiritual successors.

Post by **Chroelle** » Tue Apr 15, 2008 13:28

Is the idea behind the remake button still something we want..?

eMTe · Post by **eMTe** » Tue Apr 15, 2008 22:10

I'm the one who wants it. You can add this to bugtracker then.

Post by **Chroelle** » Wed Apr 16, 2008 18:31

Remake button idea added to bugtracker. Will keep this open for now if someone has any thoughts on this...