Over the last 2 days i have been working on a website to promote not just CoTM, but all of my games. I've now got it to a point where, while not quite completely finished, it's finished enough for me to show it off.
It's called Dizzy Stories, and the intention is to make it the place to go for anything to do with any of my games.
http://dizzystories.110mb.com/index.php
any comments are very welcome. :teethy:
well legals and technical stuff aside [cause i know nothing where thats concerned] I LIKE IT {yolkfolk}:clap:
Looks brilliant, will have a better look when I get more time. But will defo donate cause I love all your games and the hard work you put in in making them. Keep up the good work and look forward to your next game {yolkfolk}:delight:
Wow, it's already looking really great. Love what you've done with the title. Bookmarked {yolkfolk}:delight:
It's great to have something like this, because although each game is independent of the previous one it's nice to be able to play them in some kind of order and see how they progress, or check out recurring themes and characters used by a particular author, and with your site that's now so easy to do with your games :smile:
It would be cool if in the future we can leave small comments and ratings on each game's page.
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It would be cool if in the future we can leave small comments and ratings on each game’s page.
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unfortunately i'm not using a database (costs money, more complex to code etc etc), so the site doesn't have any user-changeable content. (apart from the download counts, which i implemented in an old, backwards way)
Wow looks great Jamie.
I look forward to visiting this site regularly.
I think its real positive that we'll have an extra forum that promotes Dizzy as well as your other projects also. it would also be a good place to attract your next gen of beta testers :tongue:
A real success story
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Just imagine if other developers also set up their own websites - we'd have Dizzy appearing all over the net - Wonderful - and it'll mean that visitors to those sites will hear about Yolkfolk too
The only thing Id suggest is maybe you could suggest a recccomended donation amount and have some blurb about what its for ie along the line you dont get paid for this but if someone wanted to show their appreciation, you accept gratuities...?
The other thing I miss, and its silly really, but on the forums you have little icons below your name, and when new ones appear with just letters and a big '?' i feel a sense of expectation and mystery about future surprises - maybe you can do something to that effect in your upcoming section???
All in all - I love it!!!
{yolkfolk}:clap:
Great site Jamie, anything you do is usually quality though. Like the look of it. {yolkfolk}:clap:
Thank you!
regarding the copyright thing, nahhh tbh the design is so simple it's probably not worth copyrighting. It just looks better :tongue:
also I may add something to the 'upcoming' page. we'll see :tongue:
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the *only* problem with 110mb.com is that sometimes (as now) the server it’s hosted on goes down. New server, issues with stability, etc etc.
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I know, I can't get on :sad:
Slightly off topic, but: I followed the link from the site to your tutorial videos, and sat and watched them all back-to-back late last night, rewinding here and there to go over the coding bits a few times until I understood what was really going on...
I'm heading back into DizzyAGE now to try out my new-found knowledge!
Thanks for taking the time out to do those vids for n00bs like me, it really helps MASSIVELY to have something like that to hand when trying to work through the three DizzyAGE books. The were easy to watch, fun to follow and set at a gentle, almost soothing pace - when someone has been doing something they know inside-out for so long, it's often easy for that person to fall into the trap of skipping over the 'for granted' parts when trying to train someone else (as I've often found at work - both as a trainee and trainer) but you avoid that trap. Also, because you can see the results right there in front of your eyes, it makes it feel more rewarding - to follow the code and then see you put it into the game and see the apple-giving, coin-hiding, bat-killing, door-unlocking code in action is great and really spurs you on to go and try it for yourself, a lot more than just reading the code in the e-book.
Anyway, I think that's enough ass-kissing for now {yolkfolk}:tongue:
according to the server monitor here: http://grd.110mb.com/server-monitor/ box 17 (the server Dizzy Stories is on) has been down for nearly 7 hours now! :surprise:
bit annoying really, cause i'd quite like to add something to the site...
I'm glad you've got some use out of the tutorial vids! :smile: that's what they're there for!
I know, so much for their 99% up time 'guarantee' {dizzy}:huh:
yeah. still down. I think something has gone seriously wrong with that server! :tongue:
but i've had a few sites on 110mb.com, what you tend to find is that whichever the new server is tends to be down a bit more than the others, until all the issues etc get ironed out. Never known it to be down for over half a day tho...