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#1381
Images are scaled down in browser to 320x200 on the game's page, and show at native res in the popup, yes.

I could look into scaling up.  Pixel art can look atrocious if it's scaled up badly though, so it might not be the best idea.
#1382
If only I had access to my full adventure game collection here.  You'd see!
#1383
I really should run a database query to convert all those stupid base ten kB calculations to just use MB.  I'll add it to the list!
#1384
If there's no one credited for the game, or the file size is zero it won't like it.  If you can't work out the person's forums username, you can just copy the 'author' information from further up, and leave the credits blank, like "author: " and it'll work.

The earlier games like Wet often don't have credits, because I think that feature was hacked in after the initial database driven system was created.

Some more intelligent error reporting would probably be a good idea, I'll think about doing that at some point.
#1385
People shouldn't make silly games then!  If not mandatory, it could at least be an option.  Might encourage those people who may forget to otherwise to do it. 
#1386
That gave me a cunning idea.  I've added Leon, Stupot and Trampoline to a special group that will allow them to edit games game entries.  You should all get an 'edit this page' link on every page, so you can just update them yourselves.  Cuts out the middleman!  If anyone else wants to join in, please let me know and I'll set them up.

Please note that every action you make on the games page is logged, so I will know in the unlikely event one of you goes mad and starts abusing this newfound power  :P
#1387
I wonder whether I could make it a necessity to link to a games page entry when you start a new thread in Completed Game Announcements...  Hmm...

35% of all the games in the database (500+) still have dead images, so please feel free to jump in and help!  Just pick a letter no one else has claimed, and get going.

There are 1499 games in the database right now by the way.  Wonder who'll get the milestone 1500th?  Not that the games page IDs line up of course, as some games have been deleted in the meantime; the next id added will actually be 1682.
#1388
I have 2.3GB of crap in my 'Underground Games' folder by the way, if anyone is desperately searching for anything pre about 2008.  I know there's a missing games thread somewhere, but I honestly don't pay any attention to it.

Leon, take a look at this (and its preceding pages).  If that doesn't work, I can probably hack something together eventuallyâ,,¢
#1389
Oh yeah, I wouldn't miss it.
#1390
Just so you guys know, Jen and I have broken up, so she won't be coming.  Don't worry about refunding the money or anything, don't want to cost to go up for everyone else.
#1391
I just ran a script that copied all of the valid external image links in the games database to the server.  This means that all (non broken) images should from now on be stored locally, and all images added in future will too.  This should remove the possibility of dead images ever existing again!  Now to get the games database tied into AGS Archives so the same thing happens there.
#1392
There we go.  I'll mark them off as I go through.
#1393
Site & Forum Reports / Re: Bug reports
Wed 08/05/2013 23:20:54
Oh, I see.  I'll see what I can do.
#1394
Site & Forum Reports / Re: Bug reports
Wed 08/05/2013 23:09:03
I don't understand.  Can you fake something up in an image?  Confused!
#1395
Just sent you what I think is a request for write access.  That would let me mark them off as I go through them, if that's okay?
#1396
Spreadsheets are always a good idea.  It's a lot easier to automatically import things to the database that way, which avoids having to go through and make so many changes manually.  It's fine though, I can do some exploding to work with the info.
#1397
Which one of your games?  There are millions of them!  We did discuss a while ago that people should be able to change the categories of their own games, but I never got around to doing it; I'll sort that out later.

The redesign would make sense, and would save some space.  I'll fiddle with the styling later.
#1398
Quote from: OneDollar on Wed 08/05/2013 12:33:46
My game 'Alan Saves Christmas' is on the list, but the screenshot is showing up fine for me. I've not edited its entry recently. Any ideas?

Might just be it wasn't loading at some particular moment for someone, so they chose to mark it as broken.  Hosts, even big ones like Google Pages, can be randomly inaccessible sometimes.  I've put the image on the server and set the flag as unbroken now anyway.
#1399
Ah, right.  Yes, taking screenshots of old skool low res games on newer versions of Windows is a pain.  There's probably some clever software that will only capture window contents though.  What about Greenshot?  I'm at work currently, so I can't test it out, but it sounds like it might be suitable.
#1400
Quote from: Duzz on Wed 08/05/2013 10:59:18
I checked mine and there's a couple with issues:

I can't edit good santa bad santa for some reason, is that something a mod can fix?
http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/site/games/game/153/

And I fixed the link in bouncy boxing a while back but it's still marked as broken.
http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/site/games/game/468/

You should now have edit access, and I removed the broken download tag.

Quote from: Tramponline on Wed 08/05/2013 11:17:25
Gah!! With games based on older versions of AGS 'F12'-screenshots don't seem to capture the cursor or even sprites (Labyrinth!). Had to take 'outside' screenshots in window mode but unfortunately at 640x480 res. All a bit patchy...       

What is this crazy F12 thing?  Tried pressing Prt Scrn and pasting into an image editor?  I've fixed all the images and links otherwise though, thanks.
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