N7Commander95
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Project Beast (From Software) by Gravelord_Nito (May 2, 2014)
Dark Schala
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Hakuoki: Stories of the Shinsengumi by Dark Schala (2nd May 2014)
Didn't see anyone making a thread for it and it's out on Tuesday.
Didn't see anyone making a thread for it and it's out on Tuesday.
cj_iwakura
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Hopefully this has more posts than the last Hakuoki thread...
Pretty sure Nemesis_ will only add officially announced titles.
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=109764418&postcount=1892
my first ever OT was for Bastion. the circle is complete ^^
Tesla Effect: A Tex Murphy Adventure by Gez (3rd May 2014)
Battleblock Theater PC by Kulapik ( 3rd May 2014)
i'm watching you
DDD:
SJRB
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O scheisse!!
Dark Schala
Eloquent Princess
Lord help you if it's text embedded in images and if you indent too much it'll look weird and unreadable in mobile!
That's what I ended up learning from my first true OT and helping other people with their OT text. That's why if I ever do OTs or other anniversary threads, I'll make them mostly text with pics and preview them on mobile. It's a learning process!
Honestly, I've been more comfortable making anniversary threads. Doing the FF5 one in about an hour and having it turn out well, and writing the text for the Phantasy Star one was really fun.
Nemesis_
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Nope we're not, and I've clarified it about two to three times already. We aren't doing this for games that aren't officially announced - it gets too messy. As I mentioned before, the ones that are there will stay there but anything from that post I made two weeks ago will not be added until the game is announced formally.
I only have 3 weeks and I'm not even close to finish my Mario Kart 8 OT
Not sure if you have seen this already but there's shitloads of artwork here and most of it is cut-out perfectly already.
http://www.mariowiki.com/Gallery:Mario_Kart_8
Thread is updated, btw. Cool to see people having their stuff ready early too, maybe I should get started on Evil Within and Bayonetta ._.
SJRB
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I'm watching you. Don't fuck this up.
iNvid02
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i think i posted this a while ago but its always come in handy
1. in chrome right click and pick inspect element on a web page
2. go to the resources tab, and expand the frames folder
3. the images menu has all the images on that site for you to save
4. the fonts menu has the font files the game site/page is using
5. save the font file, and upload it here
6. download the ttf file which you can use on your pc
1. in chrome right click and pick inspect element on a web page
2. go to the resources tab, and expand the frames folder
3. the images menu has all the images on that site for you to save
4. the fonts menu has the font files the game site/page is using
5. save the font file, and upload it here
6. download the ttf file which you can use on your pc
a real human bean
edit: How do you make something like this tho, iNvid? http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=806118&highlight=
I wouldn't even know where to start. Where do I get a decent background? How can I place all the text and images symmetrical etc? And there are other OTs out there with a similar design, but twice as long.
iNvid02
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you have to put the text inside the image in photoshop, its the only way you're able to freely position stuff wherever you want. the main thing is ensuring its legible without squinting, hence the large-ish font size.
the background and pretty much everything else was from the official website, ii got it using the method above.
the linked sections are done using slices in photoshop - it ends up with spaces between each image when previewing, but when you click post it all lines up as it should.
the only downside is it doesnt display correctly on mobile gaf, its ok on tablets but my iphone makes it too small, but its not a huge issue.
the background and pretty much everything else was from the official website, ii got it using the method above.
the linked sections are done using slices in photoshop - it ends up with spaces between each image when previewing, but when you click post it all lines up as it should.
the only downside is it doesnt display correctly on mobile gaf, its ok on tablets but my iphone makes it too small, but its not a huge issue.
Do you use rulers for the text and images?
As seen in: http://abload.de/img/newfullpagebordered03riqzu.png all the text and images are all evenly and stuff
And I tried the website trick for Child of Light and you were damn right, you can find pretty much everything in there
I didn't find your background though
Nemesis_
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Whenever I get around to properly redesigning the OT I might make a thing of tips like this, it's very handy
iNvid02
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Do you use rulers for the text and images?
As seen in: http://abload.de/img/newfullpagebordered03riqzu.png all the text and images are all evenly and stuff
And I tried the website trick for Child of Light and you were damn right, you can find pretty much everything in there
no rulers, just align it as best i can. i think CS6 has a little pop up when you're moving stuff telling you how much you've moved it, it helps a little.
and yeah the background wasn't on that site, i saw some wallpapers on google images and just removed the logo from this one to make it into a background
Whenever I get around to properly redesigning the OT I might make a thing of tips like this, it's very handy
Good idea.
Thanks bro, good to know this stuff
[OT]The Amazing Spider-Man 3 by Toa TAK (4th May 2014)
[OT]The Amazing Spider-Man 4 by Toa TAK (4th May 2014)
[OT]The Amazing Spider-Man 4 by Toa TAK (4th May 2014)
i used your 1000px width advice, i hope my OT doesn't look bad on mobile!
Excellent tips, I had done this for images, but didn't know you could find the font this way. Neat!
Yeah, I've been using some of the artwork. I'm dealing with the game's info the most.
Nintendo has been vague as fuck about online, battle and gameplay in general.
I'm still not sure if I'll use text or images for it though I think text would be better in case I need to fix something.
Ohhh... thank you so much. It'll be very helpful in the future.
Just a quick observation, the date is supposed to be the day you made your post not the day it is supposed to be released. So both should be [4th May 2014]
Same tips that iNvid02 posted, but for Firefox users (converting fonts is done the same way as iNvid02 posted):
Images can be gotten by choosing the "View Page Info" option in the right-click menu and then going into the 'Media' tab.
Fonts can be gotten by choosing the "Inspect Element" option in the right-click menu and clicking the 'Fonts' tab at the right side (bottom if you're using the "Dock to side of browser" view).
The "Battle Arenas" are 8 slightly modified normal race courses (I don't remember all of them) which have the item boxes spawn in different places. The scoring system is based on the amount of balloons popped. There is a time limit of 1-5 minutes. If you lose all of your balloons, you don't respawn and instead become a ghost which allows you to get one hit as revenge kind of like MK64's bomb thing.
I think that covers everything about Battle Mode.
Images can be gotten by choosing the "View Page Info" option in the right-click menu and then going into the 'Media' tab.
Fonts can be gotten by choosing the "Inspect Element" option in the right-click menu and clicking the 'Fonts' tab at the right side (bottom if you're using the "Dock to side of browser" view).
Online is pretty vague and gameplay is somewhat vague, but we know pretty much everything about Battle Mode.
The "Battle Arenas" are 8 slightly modified normal race courses (I don't remember all of them) which have the item boxes spawn in different places. The scoring system is based on the amount of balloons popped. There is a time limit of 1-5 minutes. If you lose all of your balloons, you don't respawn and instead become a ghost which allows you to get one hit as revenge kind of like MK64's bomb thing.
I think that covers everything about Battle Mode.
Dark Schala
Eloquent Princess
The Hakuoki thread is up so it can be removed from the list: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=812992. I'd claimed it the other day.
Dawg, we'll be watching you in the Watch Dawgs, thread :V
Wow, that's actually really helpful. I don't think GIMP has anything like that.
Hot Coldman
Banned
E3 2014 | EA Presentation by Hot Coldman (4th May 2014)
Whoops! I mixed that up. Thanks!
Banners can look fine on mobile. The Mario Golf one does for instance.
Edit what I'm curious about is what line breaks will look like. I don't want my text to span the whole width so I have some manual breaks to fit two widths of the reply window, which seems okay.
Preview:
I hope it ends up looking okay..is there a better way to do it? I'm fine admitting that I am green at this.
I'm using a combination of both for my Wildstar OT.
For example, I have two images like this: RACES and CLASSES, but all the real information is going to be headers like THIS with plain text underneath.
I agree that just putting text in an image is a strain on mobile devices for readability, but I still want it to look pretty.
Dark Schala
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I think the common criticism for the last few years from some people is that OTs don't need to look like bloated PRfests because they're threads for boards for people to discuss stuff and people aren't going to look at the OP again past page 2. As harsh as that may sound, that's the reality of it.
At the same time, some thread creators want to make their threads look pretty because they're a fan of the game/series, so... I dunno.
As for me, I just like it clean. Andrex's Super Mario 3D Land thread, Volcynika's VLR thread, Himuro's GTA4 thread, etc. are good examples of threads that serve the bare minimum and they aren't overloaded with a lot of bulk.
But other people have different tastes, so it depends on how the thread creator sees it.
Peterthumpa
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Well, since the first OT for console screenshots is kinda mine, I'm claiming the second one here.
Will the current one be closed with 200 pages? We're almost there.
Will the current one be closed with 200 pages? We're almost there.
That makes it pretty boring. Hope you'll like mine!
No, it will at 400 pages/20k posts.
Just wanted to say thanks for all the tips, guidelines, good/bad examples and tricks that were posted earlier in this thread! (too lazy to quote them all)
It is already proving to be a great help in putting together the Tomodachi Life OT! It's my first real OT so I'm nervous about getting it right. But I feel much more confident now.
Btw is everyone just dumping their code in a post and then previewing it without posting to check their progress? I'm so scared I'll accidentally click "Submit Reply"... (as has happened to someone before, I believe one of the Twitch Plays Pokemon threads)
It is already proving to be a great help in putting together the Tomodachi Life OT! It's my first real OT so I'm nervous about getting it right. But I feel much more confident now
.Btw is everyone just dumping their code in a post and then previewing it without posting to check their progress? I'm so scared I'll accidentally click "Submit Reply"... (as has happened to someone before, I believe one of the Twitch Plays Pokemon threads
)Dark Schala
Eloquent Princess
I usually just use an old-ass post to edit what it looks like in post-form instead of using Preview Post so I can get the right dimensions for everything.
I noticed that Preview Post, etc doesn't usually have the right dimensions if I wanted to indent something or see how something looked like if I didn't indent/center it, so I ended up editing an old post for it
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