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Post by Discoalucard on Jun 14, 2007 9:52:28 GMT -5
I've updated the OP with a more detailed guide on how to write for HG101, including how to submit images and such. Please make sure you're familiar with these requirements, as it'll definitely help us in formatting and editing your article.
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Post by Ace Whatever on Jul 10, 2007 13:10:28 GMT -5
Pardon my ignorance, but why do we need to make separate thumbnail images for the larger screenshots when we can just add size attributes to <img> element in the article pages?
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Post by Discoalucard on Jul 10, 2007 13:30:53 GMT -5
File size. You can technically resize large screenshots into smaller dimensions in HTML, but then you're loading the entire full screen shot. The thumbnails are usually a quarter of the resolution, which means a much smaller file size. So while it takes up more space on the server, it also loads quicker - which is useful considering how many images are usually featuring on a single page.
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Post by xorthen on Aug 4, 2007 21:48:20 GMT -5
Where exactly do the game cover shots get uploaded?
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Post by suffy on Aug 5, 2007 1:21:14 GMT -5
I'm interested in doing an article myself. Although I was a bit curious about the "all games in the series" rule. The game series I wanted to do an article for is the on-going beatmaniaIIDX. Which while it is all the rage in Japan's arcades, it has little exposure in America. Although this series of games is actually part of another series, which is again part of another series.
It is labeled as part of the bemani series. Which is Konamis music games series. It is also part of the Beatmania series. The original Beatmania had only 5 keys and around 7 games. BeatmaniaIIDX was originally called Beatmania II, which consists of now 14 different games. There is also a Beatmania III that only had 5 keys, but a foot pedal.
Since I am only really familiar with beatmaniaIIDX, and there is obviously big differences between itself and its counter parts. I was wondering.. would it be fine if I wrote an article, which focused solely on the beatmaniaIIDX series? While only having brief mention of the other games.
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Post by vysethebold on Aug 5, 2007 2:32:48 GMT -5
I think the main issue with doing a Beatmania article is that the games really don't have much variation except for the song list. I mean how much do the games in each sub-series differ from one another? Is it notable to include information on so many different games that are all basically the same. You have to justify a reason for covering all 14 of those titles.
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Post by zzz on Aug 5, 2007 2:54:51 GMT -5
Where exactly do the game cover shots get uploaded? Nowhere. Why do you ask? Are you writing about something? If not there is no need to send anybody box shots. If so than look back at the rules again. It specifically says (or at least the original version did, it may have been taken out since then) to put them in the same zip file as the screenshots and e-mail the zip file to Discoalucard. I'm interested in doing an article myself. Although I was a bit curious about the "all games in the series" rule. The game series I wanted to do an article for is the on-going beatmaniaIIDX. Which while it is all the rage in Japan's arcades, it has little exposure in America. Although this series of games is actually part of another series, which is again part of another series. It is labeled as part of the bemani series. Which is Konamis music games series. It is also part of the Beatmania series. The original Beatmania had only 5 keys and around 7 games. BeatmaniaIIDX was originally called Beatmania II, which consists of now 14 different games. There is also a Beatmania III that only had 5 keys, but a foot pedal. Since I am only really familiar with beatmaniaIIDX, and there is obviously big differences between itself and its counter parts. I was wondering.. would it be fine if I wrote an article, which focused solely on the beatmaniaIIDX series? While only having brief mention of the other games. I am sure that Discoalucard will answer this himself, but that is obviously part of the Beatmania series. I doubt that anybody would have objections to you writing about Beatmania, but there are a crapload of games and who knows how many that will be released in the future, so you would have to update the thing every time that a game was released or ported. I would assume that this would be quite a bit of work for that particular series.
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Post by zzz on Aug 5, 2007 3:01:22 GMT -5
I think the main issue with doing a Beatmania article is that the games really don't have much variation except for the song list. I mean how much do the games in each sub-series differ from one another? Is it notable to include information on so many different games that are all basically the same. You have to justify a reason for covering all 14 of those titles. If you ask me, it would be VERY interesting to see somebody write about a series of rythym games with the music as the focal point of the write up. That would be quite a change of pace from the norm and something that I would be very interested in seeing myself.
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Post by suffy on Aug 5, 2007 5:10:01 GMT -5
I think the main issue with doing a Beatmania article is that the games really don't have much variation except for the song list. I mean how much do the games in each sub-series differ from one another? Is it notable to include information on so many different games that are all basically the same. You have to justify a reason for covering all 14 of those titles. There is bajillion king of fighter games with little variation between each other, yet someone did take the time to write a full fledged article about the series. Although, like KoF this series has slowly evolved. Including progressive difficulty, new modes, new options, new hardware, new artists, new interface, etc.. It's more than just having a few extra songs here and there. For example, in the recent CS release they added a new rival system. Which they collected data from several arcades, and put them in the CS version. So if I wanted to rival against the best in Japan, their scores would be right there. Despite being just notes, there is some depth there. I mostly was interested in doing this, seeing as there was no music game articles written. As well as this being the most "hardcore" music game around. It's just as zzz mentioned, it will be A LOT of work. So i'm just seeing my options and feed back, if I were to take the time to do so. I was also considering Pump It Up, but I figured i'd get a negative reaction.
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Post by Gilder on Aug 5, 2007 10:36:02 GMT -5
There is bajillion king of fighter games with little variation between each other, yet someone did take the time to write a full fledged article about the series. Although, like KoF this series has slowly evolved. Including progressive difficulty, new modes, new options, new hardware, new artists, new interface, etc.. It's more than just having a few extra songs here and there. For example, in the recent CS release they added a new rival system. Which they collected data from several arcades, and put them in the CS version. So if I wanted to rival against the best in Japan, their scores would be right there. Despite being just notes, there is some depth there. I mostly was interested in doing this, seeing as there was no music game articles written. As well as this being the most "hardcore" music game around. It's just as zzz mentioned, it will be A LOT of work. So i'm just seeing my options and feed back, if I were to take the time to do so. I was also considering Pump It Up, but I figured i'd get a negative reaction. No music game articles written? hg101.classicgaming.gamespy.com/spacechannel5/spacechannel5.htmhg101.classicgaming.gamespy.com/rhythmtengoku/rhythmtengoku.htmhg101.classicgaming.gamespy.com/rez/rez.htm (debateable) I think it would be interesting to see this article if written. Besides talking about the differences between arcade releases, you could talk about the differences to the CS versions as well. Would be quite interesting. Personally, I'd hope you'd write about Beatmania and Beatmania III as well or at the very least mention them, as someone who isn't too involved with Bemani wouldn't fully understand the difference between them. Also, talking about the differences between IIDX and BMUS would be awesome, as BMUS combined BM and IIDX for US audiences. As for a Pump It Up article, why would anyone be negative about it? Most people only know about DDR in terms of dancing games, so that would be a nice change of pace to talk about DDR's main rival.
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Post by suffy on Aug 5, 2007 22:25:23 GMT -5
I wouldn't mind writing about them, it's just my knowledge on them is limited. As a BMIII machine is very rare, and i've only played two mixes from the original BM series. The idea I had was to mention them, but not list them but not get indepth with each game of the BM and BM3 series. While keeping the focus mostly on beatmaniaIIDX.
I'll admit you, you got me there with the three links you posted. Although the difference between BM, Pump, DDR etc. is that there isn't an active competitive community for the three you listed. As for a Pump article, if you're open to the idea of it, I can easily write up something on that as that was the first music game I got really into. So i'll see what I can dig up on that first.
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Post by vysethebold on Aug 5, 2007 23:24:44 GMT -5
I think the article would be a good idea. Just make sure you list all of the differences and why you should play certain versions.
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Post by cj iwakura on Aug 25, 2007 20:17:53 GMT -5
So if I were to do an article on a game and/or series, is it required that original screenshots are used, meaning, ones that I created myself?
I'd love to spread the gospel on Frequency/Amplitude, but the crazier part of me notices the Sega CD FMV games haven't gotten a mention yet either... though I don't think I'd be able to stop at just doing an article on Night Trap and Double Switch(they're the two with which I'm most familiar).
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Post by vysethebold on Aug 26, 2007 1:23:10 GMT -5
I think an article on Frequency and Amplitude would be good but I think that the Guitar Hero series should be included, too, considering those games are of the same lineage (look/feel/developer/Freezepop). Why not just do a whole Harmonix article?
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Post by Discoalucard on Aug 26, 2007 9:54:45 GMT -5
Eh, they might be worth a mention, but they're a different series, so something just focusing on Frequency/Amplitude would be just fine.
If you can grab pictures from other sources, that's fine, as long as they're of decent quality. If not, I have Amplitude and can probably (I think?) grab Frequency on the cheap to capture some shots.
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