wins that thread btw 

it worked 

and Damaul does it with a single post! 

I`m killing it 

 

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Oh right, didn't see post #5339 

Kinn, I'm inclined to agree with JPLambert that the mouseovers should be a different shade of brown rather than a bright colour.

Also, how about varying the shade of each of the different buttons (although still brown obviously), atm it's more 3 shades of brown rather than 256 

I like it. Keep the green, you want to keep a bit of contrast.

I never got to read Blitz's page. :( 

[nt] 

Anyone tried the warhammer: dawn of war beta that was released today? I've heard a ton of good things about the beta-test, so I'm getting it now to see if its any good. Just wondering, as I seem to remember there being one or two warhammer geeks in the mix here. 

Yeah I really wanted to dl the demo but its 319mb or somesuch size, sucks when Im on 56k...

Please tell us how it is when you've had a play, it looks awesome :) 

I played it when it was first released on FilePlanet.

It's OK, but somewhat simplistic in terms of gameplay/tactics/troop control. Pretty much 'just another rts', except without having to ship resources back to your base (and with GC-esque control points).

However, the artwork in general, and the animations especially, are amazing. It does actually feel like you're watching a real battle. 

Oh, and it has a custom colours option which is a nice nod to its origins 

I will download it, if it's only 319 mb that should be no problem. I tried downloading the WoW beta but it was 2200 mb, so I left it on over night and it was half way done. =\ But yes I plan on playing Dawn of War, looks very good to me, like a fun version of Warcraft3. 

If fucking FilePlanet would stop sending me in circles. Is there anywhere else I can download it? Whenever I enter my age to download it, it sends me to a page to register with fileplanet and it won't let me downlaod it. I filled out the form, but then it said my info was already taken. /me cries 

For most demos, if you're having problems with FilePenis, checkout:

www.3dgamers.com 

Crits Please
#5324 posted by Kinn [217.43.53.217] on 2004/09/09 03:52:15

For what it's worth, it's very bland. As far as speed goes I have a really fast connection so I cannot evaluate that. (loaded it in > 1 second. 

after looking at it a bit more (the above was my first impression), I would make each link go to another page. If for no other reason than to keep Scampie's bandwidth usage down). I clicked on Bastion and ended up downloading it again (I already had it).

Instead of green you might want to go with a darker brown. And where the blue is you might want to think about using a brownish green. Just my thought's ;) 

Thanks for the crits, guys.

The consensus seems to be: make the bright colours another shade of brown (seems logical I guess).

Quaketree: Ignore the links etc. - the "bastion" link is only temporary anyway, just so the map is there whilst I work on the rest of the content. It won't behave like that in the finished version. 

In general, I don't like splash pages. 

well, when it's done, all the links will work, so I don't know if it really qualifies as a "splash page" in the sense that you mean. 

Okay, maybe "splash page" isn't quite the right word. But having a menu page that you have to keep flipping back to is silly from the perspective of navigation and flow. And if you have the menu on all of the sub-pages, good; but even if you do, that makes the front menu page kind of unnecessary because it feels like you're adding a small seperation between the user and the content.

I do like the design, though. And if it was just a set of links to other sites or files (zip, jpg, dzip, etc.) then I think this would be perfect. 

actually, the links were just gonna pop up a smaller window - so no flipping back would be involved. 

That might be even worse, Kinn. Those usually don't work well or at all in browsers that block pop-ups.