I'm (very) proud to announce Slashstone, "the gamedev team" :-).

Currently we have one game ready (it is actually an old game that i personally made and i found out that it is funny and i think that because of that it will sell - ...and i'm giving it away for the low price of $6) and we're developing two other games (the first one in the NeXT section is almost ready, we just have to finetune 1-2 graphics and put the music).

The url is:
http://slashstone.multiservers.com/
(prefer to view the page with Mozilla, Firebird, Phoenix or other Gecko-based web browser - IE will do the job, but moz is better :-).

Comments please! :-]

first, you may prefer mozilla, but most ppl use IE, is more important to make it look good on ie

second, random capitalizing, even if it follows a rule DOES NOT look good.

third, games should be selling from the first page of the site, add a couple of screenshots to it

fourth, the spread the word on the top of each page doesnt do much for design, maybe put that in a links section

Good luck

Ack! Pop-ups! Every page I go to on your site has at least two pop-ups. And one of them was a Gator plugin! You should get rid of those. If I ever go to a site and see pop-ups I'll close the site immediately and never return.

Yeah, I do the same.

Get yourself a proper domain and a server without the popups.

Myself, I use mydomain.com ($8.50/year) and a free brinkster.com account. At that price, there's really no excuse...

Some random thoughts --




Ack! Pop-ups! Every page I go to on your site has at least two pop-ups. And one of them was a Gator plugin! You should get rid of those. If I ever go to a site and see pop-ups I'll close the site immediately and never return.


Heh. That's why he recommended Mozilla. :)

I got all excited about your "NeXT" link, thinking that someone was still making games for Nextstep.

On your "Contact" page, I found this to be particularly repellent:

But please have this in mind: Do not send any e-mail to the abone address if you don't have a reason to do so. Try to figure out things by yourself. It is possible for me to receive a lot of e-mails and because i get spam mails every day, it is possible to delete accidentally yours. So in the subject say that the e-mail is about Slashstone and why you're sending me the e-mail.


KM's Invaders is really Win32s?!? Will that even run on XP machines?

I don't understand "Shareware games since 1295bc".

Originally posted by Siebharinn
I don't understand "Shareware games since 1295bc".
Bad joke?

Definitely take the suggestions people have made above. Also:

Space invaders clones is a classic genre of games. KM's Invaders is a space invaders clone for Windows. KM's Invaders is a desktop game and is able to run under ANY computer - even under a 386DX with 4MB of RAM and Windows 3.1 with Win32s can be used!

I don't think mentioning Space Invaders is a good idea, but why the lack of capitalization of the name? I would also reword the first sentence, it comes off very awkward. There are spelling mistakes on your site, that's a no-no as well.

The Spread the Word of Slashstone button could really be done more professionally. I know from experience that people will probably end up using it anyway if they had intentions to do so in the first place, but you are more likely to get your button clicked by people if it looks nice. Make the button look like it leads to fun. I would also get rid of the javascript that describes the navigation buttons when you place your mouse over them. The descriptions don't provide any information that the button names don't and they are distracting.

Your overall site layout is clean, although like mentioned above, your front page could be a lot more sale oriented. People like pictures and your front page is fairly devoid of them. I like your logo. If you could maybe make the Games stand out more (deeper shade of red?) it would help, but otherwise the logo is good. Make the logo link to the main page, as many people are used to this being the case.

This first thing I think when a pop-up pops up is "This game is so crappy they can't even aford a real web host."

When I did click on games at the top I had to guess where to click next (on the screen shot) to get more info and download the game. A download link should be on the front page, becasuse most likly if I am comming to your page I have heard about the game somewhere else, and just want to download it.

The site listed no reasons for me to pay for the game.

"1 games listed."
What is that information there? And if it is there for a reason at least drop the s on games.

And I, in contrast, would leave the mention of Space Invaders. That way some one searching for Space Invaders' clones might find your site.

Are you sure you should be charging for KM Invaders? It's one of the worst games I've ever seen. There's nothing wrong with Space Invaders - it's just your implementation of it.

* As soon as you run it - you die. Killed by a giant bullet
* The window is too small and won't resize.
* Not enough notice for enemy bullets. They drop it right onto the nose of your ship.
* Popping up a MessageBox to say you've lost a life.
* No structure to the game. (Get Ready! and so on).

The quality of the game doesn't give you a good advertisement of any of your future games.

Scott

Agh. I was writing a large detailed message with answers to everyone until a power-cut. So i lost it.

Anyway, in general, i thank you all for your response. I think that it is better to note the bad things one something (but not forget the good things, since this is what motivates developers ;-) than just say "whoa good page", "very funny game", "good work", etc. I noted all of your propositions and i'll work on most of them soon.

About the domain i want to say that soon i'll have one, but currently i have problems (not of economical nature).

To Scott (lugage): thanks for commenting the bad parts of the game, even if i asked for comments for the page, but i don't agree with all of them. I don't expect from anyone to like the game, hoever i'll try to change 1-2 things on it.

After i change the page i'll ask you again to comment it :-).

(and yes, "Shareware game since 1295bc" is a joke ;-)

Well, the site is just looking good. Even on lynx. I think it is quite pretty.

urg! popup!? another ad! and a GATOR installation??? urg!