And now some comments on the website.
- The site is a bit too wide for 800x600, I'd guess about 20 pixels.
- The news page also contains a short description of Warzone, so on
800x600 the first news gets just the lowest third of the screen and
thus the second half isn't shown.
I'd make a separate "About" page with an extended description, and
perhaps add something like "Real Time Strategy in 3D" to the header,
so people know what the site is about.
About (slightly changed and extended; could possibly be enhanced with
some more marketing speak):
"Warzone 2100 is a real-time strategy game, developed by Pumpkin
Studios and published by Eidos Interactive. Although it might look
similar to Earth 2150, it does contain its own unique aspects. These
include various radar technologies, a greater focus on artillery and
counter-battery technologies, more frequent in-game cinematic updates
as gameplay progresses, as well as a different vehicle design method.
It was released in 1999 for both PC and Playstation.
In late 2004, Eidos Interactive released Warzone 2100 to the public
under the GNU General Public License (GPL), and the Warzone 2100
Resurrection Project was born.
Changes compared to the commercial version:
- Ports to Linux and MacOS
- The Direct3D and software renderers were removed in favour of
OpenGL
- Larger resolutions
- Since neither music nor movies were included in the GPL release,
our version currently has none. We will work on that, but it'll
probably take quite some time.
- <whatever else someone new to Warzone GPL should know so (s)he
doesn't have to ask us>"
- Missing: A FAQ! First question: "What about the movies?" and other
stuff, just look at the forum (and IRC?)
- Screenshot page: I don't really like this modern javasript stuff or
whatever it is, but I guess it's all the rage nowadays... But what's
really missing are some descriptions of the shots (and some shots
demonstrating specific things, new features, the unit design screen,
large battles, explosions, destruction...)
- The start page of the wiki again includes the description (including
the missing 'i' in Eidos Interactive). Since it is already included
on the main (or about) page, I'd remove it completely.
- The links should be larger
- The wiki FAQ doesn't need to be on the front page, a link is enough
- More links! There were some pages linked from the forum no other wiki
page links to.
- More content. The playing page should at least include a link to the
manual in coyotes doc collection, possibly a version of the manual
adapted to our changes.
- More organization, better structure. But it's too late now, I'll
continue this some other time.
--
Half Moon tonight. (At least it's better than no Moon at all.)
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